Premieres

Asplin, David (b.1954)

For the Healing of the Nations - A Cantata for Peace (Pacific Northwest premiere):
    Neither Shall They Learn War
    Harmony and Order
    Psalm
    The Great Peace
    For the Healing of the Nations

Bartolucci, Domenico Monsignor Bartolucci (b.1918)

Crux fidelis (North American premiere)

Muehleisen, John (b. 1955)

Christmas Hath a Darkness (world premiere)

De Profundis (world premiere)

The Great "O" Antiphons (world premiere):
    O Sapientia / O Wisdom
    O Radix Jesse / O Root of Jesse
    O Adonai / O Adonai
    O Clavis David / O Key of David
    O Oriens / O Rising Dawn
    O Rex gentium / O King of nations
    O Emmanuel / O Emmanuel

The King of Glory (world premiere)

Sisask, Urmas (b.1960)

Benedictio (Seattle premiere)

Repertoire

late 19^th- through 21st-century

Albright, William (b.1944)

Chichester Mass

Asplin, David (b.1954)

For the Healing of the Nations - A Cantata for Peace (Pacific Northwest premiere)

Barber, Samuel (1910-81)

from Three Reincarnations:
Mary Hynes & The Coolin

Bardos, Lajos (20th-c.)

Dormi, fili care

Bartolucci, Domenico Monsignor (b.1918)

Crux fidelis (North American premiere)

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)

A Boy Was Born
Choral Dances from Gloriana
Chorale (after an old French carol)
Festival Te Deum
Hymn to St. Cecilia
Jubilate Deo
Rejoice in the Lamb
St. Nicolas
from A Ceremony of Carols:
    This Little Babe

Copland, Aaron (1900-90)

The Boatmen's Dance

Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)

Trois Chansons

Distler, Hugo (1908-1942)

from Christmas Story:
    Lo, how a rose e’er blooming
   This Flower whose fragrance tender
Praise to the Lord

Duruflé, Maurice (1902 - 1986)

from Quatre Motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens:
    Ubi caritas

Finzi, Gerald (1901-1956)

All this Night
Magnificat, Op. 36
Seven Partsongs, Op. 17

Harris, William H. (1883 - 1973)

Faire is the Heaven

Herbolsheimer, Bern (b. 1948)

Lovely William
Old Woman
Once in Royal David's City
Red River Valley
from Stabat Mater
    Stabat Mater

Hindemith, Paul (1862-1963)

Six Chansons

Hovland, Egil (b.1924)

The Glory of the Father

Howells, Herbert (1892-1938)

A spotless rose
Sing Lullaby

Ives, Charles (1874-1954)

67th Psalm
A Christmas Carol
from The Celestial Country
    Glories on glories
Serenity

Kechley, Gerald

In the lonely midnight

Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)

Media vita in morte sumus
Veni, veni Emmanuel

Leighton, Kenneth (b.1929)

Hymn (Drop, drop slow tears)

Leontovych, Mykola (1877-1921)

Carol of the Bells

Mews, Douglas (1918-1993)

There God Abides

Muehleisen, John (b. 1955)

Christmas Hath a Darkness (world premiere)
De Profundis (world premiere)
The Great "O" Antiphons (world premiere)
The King of Glory (world premiere)

Ord, Boris (1897-1961)

Adam lay ybounden

Parry, C. Hubert H. (1848-1918)

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Songs of Farewell

Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)

Quatre Motets pour un Temps de Pénitence
from Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël:
    O magnum mysterium & Quem vidistis pastores

Rutter, John (b. 1941)

Blow, blow thou winter wind
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Wexford carol

Scandrett, Robert

Clean as the wind
Rocking

Schönberg, Arnold (1874-1951)

Drei Volksliedsätze

Schumann, Georg (1866-1952)

Das ist ein Köstliches Ding

Sisask, Urmas (b.1960)

Benedictio (Seattle premiere)

Slogedal, Barne (b.1927)

Antiphona de morte

Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924)

Beati quorum via

Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)

Ave Maria

Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)

Fac me tecum from Stabat Mater
Piesni kurpiowskie (Six Kurpian songs)

Tavener, John (b.1944)

The Lamb

Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)

Wassail Song

Walton, William (1902-1983)

What cheer?

Wishart, Peter (1921-1984)

Alleluya, a new work is come on hand

19th-century

Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)

Joseph, lieber Joseph mein
Laß dich nur nichts nicht dauren
Ave Maria
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen

Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)

Ave Maria
Gradual
Locus Iste

Cornelius, Peter (1824-1874)

The three kings

Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)

Ave verum corpus Christi

Mauro-Cottone, Melchiorre (fl. early 20^th c.)

Regina coeli

Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)

from Drei Psalmen:
    Der 22sie Psalm - Mein Gott, warum?
from Christus:
    Where is the newborn king? & There shall a star
from Elijah:
    For He shall give His angels & Lift thine eyes
from Hymn of Praise:
    I waited for the Lord

Rheinberger, Josef (1839-1901)

from Cantus Missae, op. 109:
    Agnus Dei

Tschesnokoff, Paul (19th-c.)

    Salvation is Created

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

from Four Sacred Pieces:
    Ave Maria

Baroque

Antes, John (1740-1811)

Go, Congregation, Go!
Surely he has borne our griefs

Arne, Thomas Augustine (1710-1778)

from Libera Me:
    Libera Me

Billings, William (1746-1800)

A virgin unspotted
Anthem for Thanksgiving
My flesh shall slumber / rutland

Lotti, Antonio (1667-1740)

Crucifixus

Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)

Adoramus te, Christe
Cor mio, mentre vi miro
Ecco mormorar l'onde
Ohimè! se tanto amate
Quel augellin, che canta

Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)

Hear my prayer, O Lord

Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770)

Stabat Mater

Walther, Johann Gottfried (1684-1748)

Joseph, lieber Joseph mein

16^th-century & earlier

12th-c. anonymous

Isayas cecinit

15th-c. English

There is no rose

Byrd, William (1543-1623)

Sing joyfully
Though Amaryllis dance

Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613)

Itene, o miei sospiri
O Vos Omnes

Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625)

Drop, drop slow tears
Hosanna to the Son of David

Janequin, Clément (c.1485-1558)

La guerre

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c. 1525-1594)

Sicut cervus

Passereau, Pierre (c.1485-1548)

Il est bel et bon

Philips, Peter (c.1561-1628)

Ascendit Deus
Hosanna to the Son of David
O beatum et sacrosanctum diem

Praetorius, Michael (c.1571-1621)

Es ist ein' Ros' ent sprungen
Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming

Rener, Adam (c.1485-c.1520)

Veni, creator spiritus

Schein, Heinrich (1586-1630)

Die mit Tränen säen

Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)

Arise, oh ye servants of God
Hodie Christus natus est

Taverner, John (c. 1495-1545)

Dum transisset Sabbatum

Victoria, Tomás Luis de (1548-1611)

from Missa simile est regnum coelorum:
    Agnus Dei
O Magnum Mysterium

Vulpius, Melchior (c.1560-1615)

Es ist ein' Ros' ent sprungen

Weelkes, Thomas (c.1575-1623)

As Vesta was
Hosanna to the Son of David
The Nightingale, the Organ of delight
When David Heard

Wilbye, John (1574-1638)

Draw on, sweet night

American folk songs

Fine, Irving (1914-62)

Worship

Foster, Stephen

De Camptown Races
Gentle Annie

Jeffers, Ron

Waitin' for the Dawn of Peace

Parker, Alice

Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal

Southers, Leroy

from Three Folk Songs:
    Jenny Jenkens

Wilberg, Mack

I'm Goin' Away