A Catalogue of Composers
Our full repertoire is extensive and diverse; from small, intimate pieces like Henry Purcell's Thou Knowest Lord The Secrets of Our Hearts, to large, multi-movement pieces such as Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria or Georg Frideric Handel's Coronation Anthem: Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened. We regularly perform pieces accompanied by orchestra in various guises as well as unaccompanied polyphonic works.
L – R: Georg Frideric Handel, Benjamin Britten & Henry Purcell
We cover virtually every genre in the Classical canon from the works of the Tudor period by composers such as William Byrd right up to the modern era with composers like Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Furthermore we have, on two occassions, been invited to debut the premier performance of specially commissioned works.
An increasing list of the composers who's music we have had the privilege to perform is as follows:
- Orlando di Lasso (1532 – 1594): FLEMISH
- William Byrd (1540 – 1623): ENGLISH
- Thomas Morley (c.1557 – 1603): ENGLISH
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643): ITALIAN
- John Farmer (c.1570 – 1601): ENGLISH
- John Wilbye (1574 – 1638): ENGLISH
- Gregoria Allegri (1582 – 1652): ITALIAN
- Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625): ENGLISH
- Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695): ENGLISH
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741): ITALIAN
- George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759): GERMAN
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750): GERMAN
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 – 1736): ITALIAN
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809): AUSTRIAN
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791): AUSTRIAN
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868): ITALIAN
- Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869): FRENCH
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901): ITALIAN
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924): FRENCH
- Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934): ENGLISH
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958): ENGLISH
- Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976): ENGLISH
- David Willcocks (b. 1919): ENGLISH
- William Mathias (1934 – 1992): WELSH
- John Rutter (b. 1945): ENGLISH
- Howard Goodall (b. 1958): ENGLISH
- James MacMillan (b. 1959): SCOTTISH