The Cappella Singers

 

of

Upminster

 

Twenty Five Years (1967 – 1992)

 

under Freda Drage, Mus. Bac (London), L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M., L.T.C.L.

 

Repertoire (compiled by Ron Shepherd)

 

                                                                                                                 

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Listed by: Composer: Work: Date(s) performed (number of times if more than once)

 

Malcolm Arnold:

 

John Clare Cantata: 1979

 

J.S. Bach:

 

Alles, was Odem hat (Motet No 1): 1970, 1981 (2)

Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring:      } 1978, 1981 (2)

Awake us, Lord, and Hasten:    }

Jesu, Priceless Treasure: 1981

Extracts from “Magnificat”: 1981 (2)

Catntata No 106: 1985

 

Richard Rodney Bennett:

 

Out of your Sleep: 1970

What Sweeter Music: 1978

Five Carols: 1981, 1982 (3), 1987 (3), 1991 (3)

 

Leonard Bernstein:

 

Chichester Psalms: 1980

Three Choruses from “The lark”: 1986

 

John Blow:

 

Salvator Mundi: 1983

 

Borodin:

 

Choral dance from Prince Igor: 1979

 

Boyce:

 

O Sing unto the Lord: 1983

 

Johannes Brahms:

 

Two Songs: 1974

Love Song Waltzes: 1978, 1979

 

Benjamin Britten:

 

Rejoice in the Lamb: 1967, 1971, 1990

Te Deum: 1969, 1972, 1973

Hymn to the Virgin: 1970, 1987

Music from “Gloriana”: 1973, 1977

Antiphon: 1973

Five Flower Songs: 1979

Ceremony of Carols: 1980

Missa Brevis: 1981 (2)

Jubliate Deo: 1969, 1972, 1973, 1986

Hymn to St Cecilia: 1990

 

Bruckner:

 

Ave Maria: 1969

Tota Pulchra es Maria: (?)

Two Marian Compositions: 1985

 

Buxtehude:

 

Alles was Ihr tut: 1978

The Little Newborn Jesus Christ: 1982

 

Byrd:

 

Prevent us O Lord: 1973

Ave Verum Corpus: 1974

Sing Joyfully unto God: 1986

 

Carissimi:

 

Jephthah: 1971, 1984, 1991

 

Charpentier:

 

Salve Puerile (?): 1978

 

Aaron Copland:

Three American Songs: 1979 (2)

 

Di Lasso:

 

Trois Chansons: 1978

La Nuit Froide… : 1978

 

Durufle:

 

Tantum Ergo (from Quatre Motets): 1972, 1973

Quatre Motets: 1976, 1986, 1990

Requiem: 1976, 1986

 

Edward Elgar:

 

Give Unto the Lord: 1973, 1977, 1982

 

Gabriel Faure:

 

Mass (Ladies): 1978

Pavane: 1979

Requiem: 1981

Cantique de Jean Racine: 1990

 

Gerald Finzi:

 

In Terra Pax: 1980, 1989

Lo the full final Sacrifice: 1981 (2)

God is Gone Up: 1987

 

Gabrieli:

 

Motet, and In Ecclesis: 1976

 

G.F. Handel:

 

Zadok the Priest: 1977

Utrecht Jubilate: 1985

Chandos Anthem: 1985

 

Herbert Howells:

 

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: 1972, 1973

Like as the Hart: 1990

Now abideth faith, Hope and Charity: 1990

 

John Ireland:

 

Greater love hath no man: 1988

 

Kelly:

 

Surrexit Hodie: 1981 (2)

Abingdon carols: 1991

 

Kodaly:

 

Jesus and the Traders: 1968, 1980

Paslm 150: 1973

Laudes Organi: 1973

 

Constant Lambert:

 

Rio Grande: 1978

 

Langlais:

 

Messe Solonelle: 1973, 1978

Sanctus and Benedictus: 1986

 

Leighton:

 

A Christmas Caroll: 1970

Let All The World: 1973

Magnificat: 1975

 

Elizabeth Maconchy:

 

Samson at the gates of Gaza: 1980

 

Matthias:

 

Alleluye Psallat: 1977, 1982

Ave Rex: 1981

Let all the people praise thee: 1986

 

Monteverdi:

 

Mass No 3 of 1651: 1968, 1974, 1992

Orfeo (Prologue and Act 1): 1971

Ballo: 1971

Beatus Vir: 1972, 1974, 1984

Two Motets: 1976

Venite, Venite: 1976

Three Madrigals: 1978; Two Madrigals; 1984 (2)

Christe Redmptor Omnium: 1978

Magnificat for Six Voices: 1981

Gloria: 1988

Laudate Pueri: 1990

 

W. A. Mozart:

 

Missa Brevis: 1983

 

Hubert Parry:

 

I was Glad: 1972, 1973, 1977

 

Pergolesi:

 

Magnificat: 1975

 

Francis Poulenc:

 

Four Motets for Lent: 1974, 1978, 1989

Three Motets: 1982

 

Henry Purcell:

 

Evening Hymn: 1968

Christmas Anthem: 1969, 1978

Funeral Music: 1971, 1974, 1992

Hear My Prayer: 1971, 1983

Jehovah quam multi sunt hostes: 1971

Music for a While: 1974

Come ye Sons of Art: 1975

Te Deum, Jubilate: 1975

O Sing Unto the Lord: 1978

Dido and Aeneas: 1983

Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: 1990

 

Rossini:

 

Petite Messe Solonelle: 1984

 

Edmund Rubbra:

 

Missa in Honorem Sancti Domini (Kyrie and Gloria): 1977

 

John Rutter:

 

I will lift up mine eyes: 1977

Gloria: 1977, 1985

When icicles hang by the wall: 1999

Fancies: 1979

Requiem: 1988

Te Deum: 1991

 

Camille Saint-Saens:

 

Les Fleurs et les Arbres }:

Calme des Nuits             }: 1979 (3)

 

Franz Schubert:

 

The Lord is my Shepherd: 1977, 1990

 

Schutz:

 

Hodie Christus Natus Est: 1969, 1981

Ach Herr, du Schopfter aller Ding: 1969, 1981

The Passion According to St Matthew: 1971

Deutsches Magnificat: 1976

Cantate Dominus: 1986

 

Stanford:

 

The Bluebird: 1974, 1977 (2), 1984 (2), 1989

Gloria in Excelsis: 1977 (2), 1985, 1990

Magnificat in G: 1988

 

Thomas Tallis:

 

O Nata Lux de Lumine: 1973

 

Thompson:

 

The Peaceable Kingdom: 1982

Alleluya: 1982, 1985

I was glad                } 1989

The best of rooms   }

 

Michael Tippett:

 

Five Negro Spirituals: 1978, 1988

 

Vittoria:

 

O Magnum Mysterium: 1979, 1991

 

Vivaldi:

Gloria (men’s voices): 1976 (?)

Gloria (all): 1984

 

William Walton:

 

Missa Brevis: 1968

Set me as a seal upon thine heart: 1990

 

Vaughan Williams:

 

Fantasia on Christmas carols: 1968, 1978, 1979

Old 100th: 1973, 1977 (2), 1992

Lord, Thou has been our Refuge: 1974

Serenade to Music: 1974, 1990

Mass in G Minor: 1975

Three Elizabethan Songs: 1979 (2)

In Windsor Forest: 1980

Benedictus: 1988

O Clap Your Hands: 1989

Five Mystical Songs: 1989, 1990

Extracts from Hodie: 1989