PRIOR Seasons
2024-2025
DEAR MOUNTAINS
Vox in Rama, Mikołaj Zieleński
Exaudi, Jocelyn Morlock
In the Beginning, Aaron Copland
Vox in Rama, George Kirbye
Dear Mountains, Karen Ouzounian and Lembit Beecher (Cantori NY commission, World premiere)
“I do not know all the details…
at that time they all came to Beirut orphaned
Reconstructing a community
out of nothing, out of ashes. Zero. Zero.”
2023-2024
But Love Is Stronger
But Love Is Stronger, Lukáš Janata (Cantori NY commission, World premiere)
The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, Vittorio Rieti
new orchestration by Brian Morales (Cantori NY commission, World premiere of new orchestration)
“For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope.”
Memento Nostri
Ecstatic Meditations, Aaron Jay Kernis
Memento Nostri, Calliope Tsoupaki (U.S. premiere)
“As the Source strikes the note, Humanity sings.
The Holy Spirit is our harpist,
And all strings which are touched in Love must sound.”
Ochre
Beauty by Beauty, John Rommereim
(World premiere of revised version)
Found Again
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate
(Cantori NY commission,
World premiere of expanded version)
Ochre, Caroline Shaw
(Cantori NY commission,
New York City premiere)
“An enemy who gets in risks the danger of becoming a friend”
2022-2023
HERRICK’S ORATORIO
Hombre Errante, Gabriela Lena Frank
(New York premiere)
Herrick’s Oratorio, David Del Tredici
(World premiere)
“When the tapers now burn blue,
And the comforters are few,
And that number more than true,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!”
CHIMÈRES
Cantata No. 3: Les fous et leurs chimères,
Benjamin C.S. Boyle
(World premiere, Cantori commission)
The New Amorous World, Lembit Beecher
(Cantori commission)
“Just look at your cities paved with beggars...
Do you still believe that civilization is the destiny of the human race?”
NEITHER SEPARATED, NOR UNDONE
Neither Separated, Nor Undone, Derrick Skye
(World premiere, Cantori commission)
A Letter of Rights, Tarik O’Regan
Three Lyrics for Chorus, George Walker
(centenary tribute)
“Government shall not be conducted
to the damage of the governed”
2021-2022
brought to light
may 2022
Brought to Light, Stuart Greenbaum
(World premiere, Cantori commission)
Ghost Chorales, Adolphus Hailstork
(New York premiere)
“Though trains obey the track
And finger of the clock,
The Earth is timed in light;”
room of her own
march 2022
Forgive Me (in memoriam Iris Murdoch)
Paul Crabtree (U.S. premiere)
The Woman Where We are Living
Robert Maggio (New York premiere)
The Wave Rises, Ben Moore
(premiere of revised version)
“But when the self speaks to the self,
who is speaking?”
Kanon Pokajanen
NOVEMBER 2021
(Rescheduled from 2020)
Kanon Pokajanen, Arvo Pärt
2019-2020
HOW TO GO ON
NOVEMBER 2019
Seven Choral Songs op. 21, Hermann Goetz
Five Kurpian Songs, Henryk Górecki
How to Go On, Dale Trumbore
(New York premiere)
“it is yours, this life,
even the failures
are yours,
even the garden, though it be unkempt,
is yours.”
2018-2019
THE TOWER AND THE GARDEN
MAY 2019
Three Motets, Charles Villiers Stanford
Seven Songs of Experience, Gerard Victory
The Tower and the Garden, Gregory Spears (New York premiere)
“the heavens arch above and evade it,
while the great shadow engulfs
more and more of the land”
FAREWELL TO SORROW
MARCH 2019
Sept Chansons, Francis Poulenc
La canción desesperada, Donald Grantham
Ode to St. Cecilia, Henry Purcell
Featuring
Nicolette Mavroleon, soprano
Thomas West, baritone
Gregory Harrington, violin
Tim Pyper, organ
“Love is so short,
forgetting is so long.”
CRIS
NOVEMBER 2018
Cris, Thierry Escaich (U.S. Premiere)
The Elements, Philip Lasser (World Premiere)
Featuring
Philip Stoddard, speaker
Hanzhi Wang, accordion
“Je marche
Je connais le chemin sans lever la tête”
2017-2018
HARP/LARK
MAY 2018
Three Motets and Kyrie, Francisco Valls
Choruses from The Lark, Leonard Bernstein
Psalmenrequiem, Daan Manneke
(U.S. Premiere)
Featuring
Ashley Jackson, harp
Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor
Ilinca Kiss, speaker
“Fi, mari de vostre amour.
Cor j’ai ami, noble et de bel a tour”
CHIMES
APRIL 2018
Chimes, Valery Gavrilin
Featuring
Dimitri Ivanov, actor
Jessica Niles, soprano
Alex Guerrero, tenor
“If it weren’t for the snow and cold,
Beautiful winter flowers would grow”
VOICES FROM THE SHADOWS
NOVEMBER 2017
Paroles contre l’oubli, Thierry Machuel
Tom O’Bedlam, Jacob Avshalomov
Ich aber bin Elend, Johannes Brahms
“The moon’s my constant mistress,
And the lowly owl my marrow;
The flaming drake and the night crow make
Me music to my sorrow.”
2016 - 2017
THE DEPTH OF THIS QUIET
MAY 2017
Six Choral Folk Songs, Gustav Holst
The Depth of this Quiet, Alice Ping Yee Ho
(World Premiere)
“Time has come
But there is no boat
Lusting hearts lost hope
Not seeing what is desired.”
TYGER TYGER
MARCH 2017
O Lord, In Thy Wrath, Orlando Gibbons
Hide Not Thou Thy Face, Richard Farrant
O Clap Your Hands Together,
Orlando Gibbons
Seven Songs of Experience, Gerard Victory
Tyger Tyger, Dariusz Przybylski
(World Premiere)
“Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
Cantori & Musicatreize
November 2016
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus, James Primosch
“I believe and interrupt my belief with doubt.
I doubt and interrupt my doubt with belief.”
2015 - 2016
The Prison
May 2016
Marienlieder, Johannes Brahms
The Prison, Dame Ethel Smyth (U.S. Premiere)
“Then, let there be banners and music.
This is no leave-taking. We are not even going home.”
La remontée des cendres
March 2016
Tre madrigali, Bruno Bettinelli
(U.S. Premiere)
At the Edge of the Earth, Maija Einfelde
(U.S. Premiere)
La remontée des cendres, Frank Ferko
(U.S. Premiere)
“As they fall
The stars lose their light
They crash in this desert without making a sound.”
Visions of Utopia and Apocalypse
November 2015
Prophezeiungen, Siegfried Thiele
The Valley of Delight: Three Utopian Fragments, Paul Crabtree
The New Amorous World, Lembit Beecher
“I have seen Jane praising God in the Dance.”
Utopia by Andréia Bohner
(via Flickr, CC-BY-20 Unported license)
2014 - 2015
Hugo Simberg, Garden of Death (via Wikimedia Commons)
PEDRO PÁRAMO
MAY 2015
Pedro Páramo, Alba Potes (World Premiere)
Where the Willows Meet, Niels Rosing-Schow
Guest artists
Peter Tantsits, tenor
Dan Kempson, baritone
Alfonso Díaz, narrator
“¿Conoce usted a Pedro Páramo? ¿Quién es?
Es un rencor vivo.”
MESSIAHS FALSE AND TRUE
MARCH 2015
The Lamentations of Jeremiah, Thomas Tallis
Prophezeiungen, Siegfried Thiele
Messiahs False and True, Rex Isenberg
(World Premiere)
Guest artists
Kathleen Chalfant, narrator
James Kennerley, organ
“Your nation rose up to confirm the prophetic vision. But they stumbled.”
Limbourg Brothers, La chute des anges rebelles
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Plaque decorated with a quatrain from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (via Wikimedia Commons)
“The Bird of Time has but a little Way
To flutter – and the Bird is on the Wing.”
THE JAZZMAN, HIS WIFE AND THE PERSIAN POET
NOVEMBER 2014
The Jazzman, His Wife and the Persian Poet, Jacques Bank (World Premiere)
Mediterranean Trilogy, Tom Nazziola (U.S. premiere)
Five Part Songs, opus 12, Gustav Holst
Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (excerpts)
Guest artists
Maryann Plunkett, narrator
Thomas Bergeron, Trumpet
Paul Murphy, Trumpet
Kris Saebo, Double Bass
Jared Soldiviero, Percussion
2013 - 2014
THE New Amorous World
May 2014
Lamentations of Jeremiah, Benjamin C.S. Boyle (World Premiere)
The New Amorous World, Lembit Beecher
(World Premiere)
Guest artists
Emily Hoile, Harp
Kyle Hoyt, Horn
Rheagan Osteen, Horn
“Manias related to love will be common in harmony. People forget that love is the domain of unreason. The more unreasonable a thing is, the more closely it is associated with love.”
Hieronymus Bosch, In the Garden of Earthly Delights
(via Artchive)
“The Sick Rose,” Songs of Innocence
Poem and illustration by William Blake
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Evening Star:
A Celebration of English Poetry
March 2014
To Music, Sir George Dyson
At the round earth’s imagined corners, C. H. H. Parry
There is sweet music, Edward Elgar
Music, when soft voices die, C. H. H. Parry
Four Madrigals by Thomas Wyatt, Thea Musgrave
Songs of Innocence, Pascal Zavaro (U.S. Premiere)
More Shakespeare Songs, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Guest artist
Miranda Cuckson, Violin
“[A]rise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go.”
The End of Men
November 2013
Martin menoit son pourceau, Claudin de Sermisy
Jacquin, Jacquet, Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Il est bel et bon, Pierre Passereau
The Housemaids, Lord Mornington
The End of Men, Jonathan Pollack Breit
(World Premiere)
Guest artists
Tristan Marzeski, drums
Jason Wirth, Piano
Atjana Andris as Clitilla
Jonny Beauchamp as Ru
Paula Galloway as Myra
Danny Rose as Judd
Quinn Warren as Lena
Image from “Project Street Stone” by Léo Caillard
2012 - 2013
A Gnostic Passion
May 2013
A Triptych of Gesualdo
Tribulationem et dolorem
Ave dulcissima Maria
O vos omnes
A Gnostic Passion, Bradley and Douglas Balliett
(World premiere)
Guest artists
Ariadne Greif, Soprano
Brad Balliett, Bassoon
Doug Balliett, Double Bass
Catherine Gregory, Flute
Ashley Jackson, Harp
Jason Wirth, Piano
The Apocryphon of John, one of the Gnostic Gospels
(via Wikimedia Commons)
“Listen to me, John, and hear what it is right for you to hear.”
Anything Can Happen
March 2013
Sleepless, Shawn Crouch
Go Where Never Before, Piotr Moss (World Premiere)
Guest artists
Bohdan Hilash, Bass Clarinet
Karla Moe, Alto Flute
Setsuko Otake, English Horn
Lamentation for a City, Lisa Bielawa
Anything Can Happen, Mohammed Fairouz (NYC Premiere)
based on the poems of Seamus Heaney
Guest artists
David Kravitz, Baritone
Nadia Sirota, Viola
(via Wikimedia Commons)
“Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter
Will mostly wait for clouds to gather head
Before he hurls the lightning?”
Felix und Clara
November 2012
Alaska Spring, Libby Larsen
Four Songs, Frank Brickle (World Premiere)
Guest artists
The Cassatt String Quartet
Tim Ruedeman, saxophone
Felix und Clara, Jacques Bank (U.S. Premiere)
Kathleen Chalfant, Narrator
[T]he harmonious voices of the chorus, the lush strings of the quartet and the natural sensuality of the wandering saxophone created a winning combination...
— Classical Music Rocks
(via Wikimedia Commons)
2011-2012
Trochilidae by Ernst Haeckel
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Birds
May 2012
Regina Coeli - Blue Be It, Vic Nees
From Some Far Shore and Who Can Revoke, Wallingford Riegger
Guest artists
Julia Bullock, Soprano
Jason Wirth, Celesta
Nocturnes, Erol Gurol (World Premiere)
Birds, Kenneth Leighton (U.S. Premiere)
Guest artists
Julia Bullock, Soprano
Javor Bracic, Piano
Jason Wirth, Piano
Frank Ferko's Stabat Mater
March 2012
Stabat Mater, Frank Ferko
Guest artist
Rebekah Camm, Soprano
"Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother, 'This child is destined to be a sign that will be rejected, and you, too, will be pierced to the heart.'"
Michalangelo's Pieta
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Leonid Meteor Storm by Edmund Weiss
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Falling Star
November 2011
Missa super l’homme armé, Guillaume Dufay
Catch a Falling Star, Philippe Hersant (U.S. Premiere)
Requiem, Jehan Alain
Doux printemps, Dynam-Victor Fumet (U.S. Premiere)
2010-2011
Obbligato III: Marimba / exotic
May 2011
Songs in Wood, David Bruce (World Premiere)
My days are gone like a shadow, John Blow
Save me, O God, John Blow
My God, my God, look upon me, John Blow
Five Waka, Akemi Naito (World Premiere)
O Magnet South, Jacob Bancks (World Premiere)
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Music for a Stone Church
April 2011
Bogoroditse Devo, Arvo Pärt
Missa Syllabica, Arvo Pärt
Nunc dimitis, Arvo Pärt
Thou, Mighty God, John Dowland
Sequentia de sancto Maximino, Hildegard von Bingen
My days are gone like a shadow, John Blow
Save me, O God, John Blow
Vault of the Capilla de la Concepcion in Segovia's Catedral de Santa María
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Guitarra by Juan Gris
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Obbligato II: Guitar / nostalgic
March 2011
Disdain me still, John Dowland
Shall I sue, John Dowland
Fine knacks for ladies, John Dowland
Weep you no more sad fountains, John Dowland
12 Madrigals (excerpts), Paul Hindemith
"Tauche deine Furcht"
"Eines Narren, eines Künstlers Leben"
Trink aus!"
"Mitwelt"
Night Keeps Its Promise, Frank Ezra Levy (World Premiere)
Romancero Gitano, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Obbligato I: Four Bassoons / ironic
November 6, 2010
Octonaires de la vanité du monde, Paschal de l'Estocart
“La glace est luisante et belle”
“Toy qui plonges ton coeur”
“O qui pourra avoir ce bien”
“Quel monstre voyie là”
“Mondain, si tu le scais, di moy”
“L’eau va viste en s’escoulan”
12 Madrigals (excerpts), Paul Hindemith
“Frühling”
“An einem Schmetterling”
“An eine Töte”
Beyond Good and Evil, Bradley Balliett (World Premiere)
“One Loves One’s Desires / Dans le veritable amour”
“Love of One is a Barbarism”
“Four Miniature Epigrams”
“A People is a Detour of Nature”
“Shame is Inventive”
2009-2010
Eight Cellos
May 2010
Alleluia-Tropus, Arvo Pärt (U.S. Premiere)
Stabat Mater, Piotr Moss (U.S. Premiere)
Cantata No. 4, Nicolas Bacri (U.S. Premiere)
Ossetian Requiem, Ivan Moody (U.S. Premiere)
Starry Messenger, Erol Gurol (World Premiere & Cantori Commission)
(via Wikimedia Commons)
A Calypso orchid
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Calypso
March 2010
The People, Yes, Simon Sargon (NYC Premiere)
Another Spring, Tom Nazziola (NYC Premiere)
Calypso, John Musto (NYC Premiere)
Ma'at Musings, Trevor Weston (NYC Premiere)
Starsong, John Musto (NYC Premiere)
Blue Fire
November 2009
Two Ensaladas by Mateo Flecha
El fuego
La justa
Serenade, Conrad Susa (NYC Premiere)
Allégories, Philippe Hersant (U.S. Premiere)
“I. Enfance III”
“II. Jeunesse (Vingt ans)”
Concerto per la beata Vergine, Vic Nees (U.S. Premiere)
2008-2009
May 2009
Monteverdi Responsories, Stratis Minakakis (World Premiere)
On the Dignity of Man, Bernd Franke (U.S. Premiere)
Zephyrus, Kristin Kuster (World Premiere)
Adoro te devote, Hugi Guðmundsson
Amao omi, Giya Kancheli
*****
March 2009
The Flaming Rock, Elisenda Fábregas
The Shadows Around the House, Tom Cipullo
“I. Swan’s Elegy”
“II. Mambo”
“III. The Sky Over My Mother’s House”
“IV. Train Ride at Dusk”
*****
November 2008
Sicut cervus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Timor et tremor, Orlando de Lassus
Exultate deo, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Three motets by Anton Bruckner
Locus iste
Os justi
Christus factus est
Metropolis, Vince Peterson (World Premiere)
Dixit maria, Hans Leo Hassler
Ach, arme welt, Johannes Brahms
Abendlied, Josef Rheinberger
Sleepless, Shawn Crouch (World Premiere)
“I. The Congress of the Insomniacs”
“II. Insomnia”
“III. Lullaby”
Insomnia tips, Beata Moon (World Premiere)
Otche nash, Anton Arensky
Ave maria, Igor Stravinsky
Bogoroditse devo, Sergei Rachmaninov
Three motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria
Ave maria
O vos omnes
O quam gloriosum
USA Stories, Michael Dellaira
“I. Adagio Dancer”
“II. Art and Isadora”
“III. The Campers at Kitty Hawk”
2007-2008
May 2008
Dive! A Water Music, Paul Crabtree
An American Persephone, Paul Crabtree
*****
April 2008
Reincarnations, Samuel Barber
Mass in Space, Gregg Smith
Now I Walk in Beauty, Gregg Smith
Dive! A Water Music, Paul Crabtree (World Premiere)
*****
March 2008
Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabriel Fauré
Gottes ist der Orient, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (U.S. Premiere)
Requiem, Gabriel Fauré
*****
November 2007
L'oracolo, Franco Leoni
L'incantesimo, Italo Montemezzi
Songs of War and Peace, Judith Shatin
Ascending into Heaven, Judith Weir
The Secret Garden, Judith Bingham
Sunny Airs and Sober, Judith Lang Zaimont
2006-2007
May 2007
Dissi a l'amata e mia lucida stella, Luca Marenzio
Pose un gran folco nel mio petto amore, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
I vaghi fiori, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Amyntas With His Phyllis Fair, Francis Pilkington
Fair Phyllis I Saw, John Farmer
Burst Forth my Tears, John Dowland
Unquiet Thoughts, John Dowland
Though Amaryllis Dance, William Byrd
Fyer, Fyer!, Thomas Morley
Quel augellin, Claudio Monteverdi
Crudel! Perchè mi fuggi?, Claudio Monteverdi
Matona mia cara, Orlando di Lasso
Innsbruck Ich muss Dich lassen, Heinrich Isaac
Hark All Ye Lovely Saints, Thomas Weelkes
Sleep, Fleshly Birth, Robert Ramsey
Il est bel et bon, Pierre Passarau
Moro, lasso, al mio duolo, Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa
Grass, David Randolph (World Premiere)
Once Certain Birds, David Randolph (World Premiere)
A Song for Humanity, David Randolph
Der Kuckuck hat sich zu Tod gefalln, Johann Steffens
Mon coeur se recommande à vous, Orlando di Lasso
Sweet Honey Sucking Bees, John Wilbye
El grillo, Josquin des Prez
*****
April 2007
Sicut cervus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
O vos omnes, Tomás Luis de Victoria
Ave Maria, Tomás Luis de Victoria
Exsultate justi, Lodovico Viadana
Adoramus te Christe, Orlando di Lasso
Crucifixus, Antonio Lotti
Ave Virgo sanctissima, Francisco Guerrero
Christus factus est, Felice Anerio
Jesu, dulcis memoria, Tomás Luis de Victoria
O quam gloriosum, Tomás Luis de Victoria
Choruses from The Lark, Leonard Bernstein
*****
March 2007
Meditatio, Erkki Sven Tüür (U.S. Premiere)
Adoro te devote, Hugi Guđmundsson (U.S. Premiere)
Amao omi, Giya Kanchel (U.S. Premiere)
*****
November 2006
Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides, Virgil Thomson
Mary Stuart Choruses, David Lang
Choruses from The Lark, Leonard Bernstein
Fighting the Waves, George Antheil
Songs and Spells, Robert Sirota
La farsa amorosa, Riccardo Zandonai
2005-2006
May 2006
To one who has been long in city pent, Rebekah Driscoll (World Premiere)
A un hombre de una gran nariz, Fernando Moruja
Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans, Claude Debussy
To Music, George Dyson
Ave Maria, Franz Biebl
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day, Beata Moon
Párnás táncdal, Béla Bartók
Wir essen und leben wohl, J.S. Bach
Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg, J.S. Bach
Thine Eyes So Bright, Henry Leslie
O'vè, lass', il bel viso, Morten Lauridsen
I'm a Train, Hammond/Hazelwood arr. Peter Knight
The Peacock, Denis Agay
La chanson des baisers, Herman Bemberg
Resignation, Hugo Wolf
We Remember Them, Beata Moon (World Premiere)
Baleleng, Traditional Samal folksong
Musica Maquina, Raphael Fusco
Lucky to Be Me, Leonard Bernstein
Campers at Kitty Hawk, Michael Dellaira
*****
April 2006
Notturno, Arnold Schoenburg
Lua Descolorida, Osvaldo Golijov
Et la vie l'emporta, Frank Martin
Geistliche Lieder nach Gedichten von Eichendorff, Hugo Wolf
“Aufblick”
“Resignation”
“Einklang”
Cantata No. 4, “Christ lag in Todesbanden”, Johann Sebastian Bach
*****
November 2005
An American Persephone, Paul Crabtree (World Premiere)
Stabat Mater, Roger Calmel
Letzte Kapitel, Berthold Goldschmidt
2004-2005
May 2005
Dona Eis, Pascal Dusapin
Lamentations, Raphael Fusco
Oratio Pauli, Richard Danielpour
*****
March 2005
Schaffe in mir, Gott, Johannes Brahms
Missa Pro Defunctis, Manuel Cardoso
Veni, Keith Roberts
*****
February 2005
Persephone, Igor Stravinsky
*****
November 2004
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Hugo Distler
One Hour to Madness and Joy, Jorge Martín
If ye love me, Thomas Tallis
Hosanna to the Son of David, Orlando Gibbons
Mass for Double Choir, Op. 44, Kenneth Leighton
2003-2004
May 2004
Cinq hymnes, Ton de Leeuw
Avoaha, Maurice Ohana
*****
April 2004
“Spirituals” (from A Child of Our Time), Michael Tippett
Stabat Mater, Frank Ferko
*****
November 2003
Guglielmo Ratcliff, Pietro Mascagni
Requiem, Zdneněk Lukáš
Chansons d'Orient, Alain Gagnon
In the Beginning, Aaron Copland
2002-2003
June 2003
Elegy for Violin & String Orchestra, Keith Jarrett
On the Beach at Night, Andrew Imbrie
The Best Beloved, Chris DeBlasio
Requiem, Erkki-Sven Tüür
*****
April 2003
Quatre Motets, Maurice Duruflé
Requiem, Maurice Duruflé
An Die Herrscher der Welt, Friedrich Cerha
*****
November 2002
Six Kurpian Folk Songs, Karol Szymanowski
…amongst the voices…, Bernard Rands
Les illuminations, Byron Adams
2001-2002
May 2002
Ondine, Clément Robert
Canticum arcanum, Bruce Adolphe
Barcarola, Robert Dennis
Trois chansons de Charles d'Orleans, Claude Debussy
*****
March 2002
USA Stories, Michael Dellaira
Paroles dorées, Alain Gagnon
Italian Madrigals, Bruno Bettinelli
Voyages, Robert Convery
*****
November 2001
Musikalisches Exequient, Schütz
Andreas Gryphius, Heinrich Sutermeister
2000-2001
May 2001
Hymn to Saint Cecilia, Benjamin Britten
Le rameau de soie, Alain Gagnon (World Premiere)
Six “Fire Songs”, Morten Lauridsen
In the Beginning, Aaron Copland
*****
March 2001
Cantique des Cantiques, Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur
Missa “In illo tempore”, Claudio Monteverdi
*****
November 2000
Meeting at Night, Tom Cipullo
Le bestiare, op. 58, Jean Absil
Three Shakespeare Songs, Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Triumf att finnas till, Bo Holten
Sechs Geistliche Liede, Hugo Wolf
Missa Brevis, Henri Pousseur
There is Sweet Music Here, Stephen Chatman
1999-2000
May 2000
Some Thoughts on Keats and Coleridge, Earl Kim
Mass, Frank Martin
Zauberspruche den Liebsten zu beschwören, Petr Eben
Quatre eclogues, Alain Gagnon (U.S. Premiere)
Six Sephardic Folksongs, Paul Ben-Haim
*****
March 2000
Quartets, op. 64, 92, 112 (with piano), Johannes Brahms
O Sacrum Convivium, Olivier Messiaen
Messe solennelle (with piano), Jean Langlais
*****
November 1999
V Prirode (“From Nature”), Antonin Dvorak
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, Johann Sebastian Bach
The Hour Glass, Irving Fine
Requiem, Herbert Howells
Madrigals, Claudio Monteverdi
1998-1999
May 1999
Le Vin Herbé, Frank Martin
*****
March 1999
Mother Goose Rhymes, David Vayo
Come To Me, Jan Krzywick
This is Thy Hour, O Soul, Jan Krzywick
On Paper Bridges, Janice Hamer
The Stolen Child, Scott Robinson
Wind Song, Bruce Stark
Rain Song, Bruce Stark
Dangerous Trains, or Cantata Peligrosa, Richard Busch
*****
December 1998
Reflections, Michael Karmon
O nata lux de lumine, James Yannatos
Memnon, Marshall Ocker
Let the Heavens Be Glad, Adolphus Hailstork
Four Love Songs from The Song of Songs, Gerald M. Shapiro
Dante's Praises to the Virgin Mother, op. 14, Russell Woollen
Visions from Hildegard, part one, Stephen Paulus
1997-1998
May 1998
Magnificat, Baldessare Galuppi
A Toccata of Galuppi's, Dominick Argento
The Foundling, Stuart Greenbaum
Oceanic Eyes, Matthew Harris
*****
March 1998
Lenten Motets, Francis Poulenc
Mass in G, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Die Jahreszeiten, Ernst Krenek
Chansons d'Orien, Alain Gagnon
Szes'c' Pies'ni Ludowych, Karol Szymanowski
*****
December 1997
Ensaladas, Mateo Flecha
Ursula Antiphon, Hildegard von Bingen
1996-1997
May 1997
The Golden Journey to Samarkand, Granville Bantock
La Bomba, Mateo Flecha
Un soir de neige, Francis Poulenc
Songs, Johannes Brahms
Madrigals, Carlo Gesualdo
U.S.A. Stories, Michael Dellaira
*****
March 1997
The Best-Beloved, Chris DeBlasio
The Shadows Around The House, Tom Cipullo
The Song of Solomon, James Wagoner
*****
December 1996
Quatre motets pour Noël, Francis Poulenc
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Hugo Distler
Mass for Double Chorus, Frank Martin
1995-1996
May 1996
The Hour Glass, Irving Fine
Madrigals, Carlo Gesualdo
Die Träumenden Knaben, Gottfried Von Einem
Fire Songs, Morton Lauridsen
Part Songs, Frederick Delius
Bachianas brasileiras no. 9, Heitor Villa-Lobos
*****
March 1996
Drei Volksliedsätze, Arnold Schoenberg
Landscapes, Gregg Smith
Sept chansons, Francis Poulenc
The Shadows Around The House, Tom Cipullo (World Premiere)
Saints Fugue, Ward Swingle
*****
December 1995
Prophetiae Sibyllarum, Orlando di Lasso
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Phillip Rhodes
A Ceremony of Carols, Benjamin Britten
Singet dem Herrn, J.S. Bach
1994-1995
May 1995
Sweet Rose, Fair Flower, Andrew Rindfleisch (NYC Premiere)
on forevers' very now, Paul Schleuse (World Premiere)
Songs of Springtime, E.J. Moeran
Upon the Dark Water, Stuart Greenbaum (U.S. Premiere)
To All Who Sleep Tonight, Jack Perla (World Premiere)
*****
March 1995
Gloriana Dances, Benjamin Britten
Song of Songs, Sergei Slonimsky
Trois poèmes de Paul Valéry, Jean Francaix
Hungarian Folk Songs, Béla Bartók
Michelangelo Choruses, Luigi Dallapiccola
*****
November 1994
Chorale, David Diamond
Suite de Lorca, E. Rautavaara
Spherical Madrigals, Ross Lee Finney
Warum ist das Licht, J.S. Bach
1993-1994 (partial)
May 1994
Musicians Wrestle Everywhere, Elliot Carter
Zwei Chinesische Lieder, Stefan Wolpe
In the Beginning, Aaron Copland
Tre madrigali di Torquato Tasso, Bernard Lewkovitch
Reincarnations, Samuel Barber
Cinco poemas de Bécquer, Carol Barnett
*****
March 1994
Alte Liebeslieder, Book 1, Sidney Hodkinson
A cappella Madrigals, Claudio Monteverdi
Trois chansons de Charles d'Orleans, Claude Debussy
Five Flower Songs, Benjamin Britten
1992-1993
May 1993
El fuego, Mateo Flecha
Lamentaciones, Alberto Ginastera
Psalm 42, Ronald Roseman
Cantata No. 131, "Aus der Tiefe", J.S. Bach
*****
February 1993
Hymn to St. Cecilia, Benjamin Britten
Five Songs of Experience, John Harbison
Mass in G, Franz Schubert
*****
November 1992
Five Choral Pictures, Samuel Adler
Songs, Opus 93, Johannes Brahms
Lamento D'Arianna, Claudio Monteverdi
Michelangelo Choruses 1 & 2, Luigi Dallapiccola
1991-1992
May 1992
Le Vin Herbé, Frank Martin
*****
February 1992
Call to Remembrance, Richard Farrant
Saint Mark Passion, Daniel Pinkham
Ave Verum Corpus, William Byrd
Stabat Mater, Frantisek Tuma
*****
November 1991
From an Unknown Past, Ned Rorem
Selected Folk Songs for Women's chorus, Béla Bartók
Part Songs, Opus 104, Johannes Brahms
Sestina, Claudio Monteverdi
Opus 53, Nos. 1 and 3, Sir Edward Elgar
1990-1991
June 1991
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu meine Freude
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf and other works with organ and strings
*****
March 1991
Requiem, Duruflé
Rejoice in the Lamb, Benjamin Britten
Missa Brevis, Leonard Bernstein
*****
December 1990
Four Motets, Anton Bruckner
Advent Motets, Francis Poulenc
Friede auf Erden, Arnold Schoenberg