Repertoire
The following comprises some works that have been performed by The Purcell Singers in the last five years, but is not an exhaustive list. For performance schedules please refer to forthcoming events.
| Adam, Adolphe | O Holy Night |
| Allegri, Gregorio | Miserere mei |
| Bach, Johann Sebastian | Mass in B minor |
| Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf | |
| Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir | |
| Jesu, meine Freude | |
| Komm, Jesu, komm | |
| Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden | |
| Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
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| Bachofen, Johann | Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott |
| Bainton, Edgar | And I saw a new heaven |
| Bairstow, Edward | Blessed City, Heavenly Salem |
| Balfour Gardiner, Edward | Evening Hymn |
| Barber, Samuel | Agnus Dei |
| Heaven-Haven | |
| Let Down the Bars, O Death | |
| Reincarnations | |
| To Be Sung on the Water | |
| Twelfth Night | |
| Blair, Hugh | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor |
| Brahms, Johannes | Warum ist das Licht gegeben |
| Ein Deutsches Requiem | |
| Britten, Benjamin | A Boy was born |
| A Ceremony of Carols | |
| A Hymn to the Virgin | |
| A Shepherd’s Carol | |
| A.M.D.G. | |
| Five Flower Songs | |
| Hymn to St Cecelia | |
| Rejoice in the Lamb | |
| Sweet was the song | |
| Bruckner, Anton | Ave Maria |
| Christus factus est | |
| Locus Iste | |
| Os Justi | |
| Virga Jesse | |
| Byrd, William | Ave verum corpus |
| Haec Dies | |
| Laudibus in Sanctis | |
| Mass for four voices | |
| Miserere mei | |
| Caesar, Anthony | Requests (I ask for Peace) |
| Carter, Andrew (arr.) | A Maiden most gentle |
| Copland, Aaron | In the Beginning |
| Four motets | |
| Cornelius, Peter | The Three Kings |
| Debussy, Claude | Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans |
| Delius, Frederick | To be sung of a summer night on the water I |
| To be sung of a summer night on the water II | |
| Duruflé, Maurice | Quatre Motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens |
| Requiem | |
| Dvo?ák, Antonin | Mass in D |
| Elgar, Edward | Four Part-songs Op. 53 |
| Three Part-songs, Op. 18 | |
| Fauré, Gabriel | Cantique de Jean Racine |
| Madrigal | |
| Requiem | |
| Finzi, Gerald | God is gone up |
| Lo, the full, final sacrifice | |
| Magnificat | |
| Seven Partsongs | |
| Ford, Mark (arr.) | Stille Nacht |
| Gibbons, Orlando | Hosanna to the Son of David |
| O clap your hands | |
| Górecki, Henryk | Miserere |
| Totus Tuus | |
| Grainger, Percy (arr.) | Brigg Fair |
| Handel, George | Four Coronation Anthems |
| Harris, William | Faire is the heaven |
| Bring us, O Lord | |
| Harwood, Basil | O how glorious is the Kingdom |
| Haydn, Joseph | “Little Organ” Mass |
| Head, Michael | The road to Bethlehem |
| Holst, Gustav | Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda |
| Six Choral Folk Songs, H 136 | |
| The Evening Watch | |
| This have I done for my true love | |
| Howells, Herbert | Communion Service: Collegium Regale |
| Like as the hart desireth the waterbrook | |
| Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: St Paul’s | |
| Morning Service: Collegium Regale | |
| Salve Regina | |
| Take him, earth, for cherishing | |
| Three Carol Anthems | |
| Tryste Noel | |
| Ireland, John | Greater love hath no man |
| Jackman, Jeremy (arr.) | Adeste fideles |
| Jackson, Gabriel | Tomorrow go ye forth |
| Jongen, Joseph | Mass, Op.130 |
| Kodály, Zoltán | Missa Brevis |
| Lauridsen, Morten | Ave Maria |
| Les chansons des roses | |
| Lux aeterna | |
| O magnum mysterium | |
| Leighton, Kenneth | Coventry Carol |
| Crucifixus pro nobis | |
| Responses | |
| Lotti, Antonio | Crucifixus |
| Martin, Frank | Messe pour double choeur a cappella |
| Mendelssohn, Felix | Hör’ mein Bitten |
| Metcalfe, Stephen (arr.) | Il est né le divin enfant |
| Moeran, Ernest | Songs of Springtime |
| Monteverdi,Claudio | Beatus Vir |
| Mozart, Wolfgang | Mass in C minor |
| Noble, Tertius | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor |
| Ott, Hans-Jakob | Die Jahreszeiten |
| Parry, Hubert | I Was Glad |
| Songs of Farewell | |
| Parsons, Robert | Ave Maria |
| Pärt, Arvo | Magnificat |
| Patterson, Paul | Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis |
| Millennium Mass | |
| Missa Brevis | |
| Pearsall, Robert | In duci Jubilo |
| Lay a Garland | |
| Poulenc, Francis | Figure Humaine |
| Mass in G | |
| Quatre Motets pour un temps de Noel | |
| Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence | |
| Quatre petite priers de Saint François d’Assise | |
| Salve Regina | |
| Sept chansons | |
| Un soir de neige | |
| Purcell, Henry | Funeral Sentences |
| Hear my prayer, O Lord | |
| Lord, how long wilt thou be angry | |
| Rejoice in the Lord always | |
| Remember not, Lord, our offences | |
| Thou knowest, Lord, the Secrets of our Hearts | |
| Rachmaninov, Sergei | All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”) |
| Ravel, Maurice | Trois Chansons |
| Rossini, Gioacchino | Petite Messe Solennelle |
| Rutter, John | A Gaelic Blessing |
| Gloria | |
| It was a lover and his lass | |
| Requiem | |
| The Angel Carol | |
| The Nativity Carol | |
| What Sweeter Music | |
| (arr.) | The Wexford Carol |
| Saint-Saëns, Camille | Deux Choeurs |
| Scheidt, Samuel | In dulci jubilo |
| Schmidlin, Johannes | Hymnus auf die Allmacht, Weissheit und Güte Gottes |
| Schoenberg, Arnold | Friede auf Erden |
| Schubert, Franz | Deutsche Messe |
| Schumann, Georg | Abgeblitzt |
| Choral-Motetten, op. 71 | |
| Choral-Motetten, op. 75 | |
| Die Verschmitzte | |
| Drei altdeutsche Lieder, op. 63 | |
| Drei geistliche Gesänge, op. 31 | |
| Drei geistliche Lieder, op. 51 | |
| Drei Motetten, op. 52 | |
| Gesänge Hiobs, op. 60 | |
| Ich kann nicht von dir lan | |
| Nachtbesuch | |
| Sehnsucht | |
| Vetter Michel | |
| Vier Lieder für Männerchor, op. 41 | |
| Schütz, Heinrich | Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt |
| Sheppard, John | In pace |
| Simms, Philip (arr.) | White Christmas |
| Stainer, John | I saw the Lord |
| The Crucifixion | |
| Stanford, Charles | Beati quorum via |
| For lo, I raise up | |
| The blue bird | |
| Three motets | |
| Strauss, Richard | Deutsche Motette |
| Stravinsky, Igor | Mass for choir and double wind quintet |
| Swayne, Giles | Magnificat |
| Tallis, Thomas | Loquebantur variis linguis |
| Tavener, John | The Lamb |
| Two Hymns to the Mother of God | |
| Song for Athene | |
| Tchaikovsky, Peter | The crown of roses |
| Tippet, Michael | Five Negro Spirituals (from A Child of our Time) |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Five English Folk Songs |
| Mass in G minor | |
| Serenade to Music | |
| Three Shakespeare Songs | |
| Victoria, Tomas | O Magnum Mysterium |
| O Quam Gloriosum | |
| O Vos Omnes | |
| Vierne, Louis | Messe solonelle |
| Vivaldi, Antonio | Gloria |
| Warlock, Peter | A Cornish Carol |
| A Cornish Christmas Carol | |
| Benedicamus Domino | |
| Bethlehem Down | |
| Whiteacre, Eric | Go, lovely Rose |
| Sleep | |
| When David heard | |
| Widor, Charles-Marie | Messe à deux choeurs et deux organs |
| Regina coeli | |
| Surrexit a mortuis | |
| Tantum ergo | |
| Tu es Petrus | |
| Willcocks, David (arr.) | Away in a Manger |
| Ding Dong! Merrily on High | |
| Infant Holy | |
| Rocking | |
| Wolf, Hugo | Sechs geistliche Lieder |
| Wood, Charles | Hail, gladdening light |