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Mississauga Festival Youth Choir

Selected Repertoire 1988-Present

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Argento, Dominick

  • Gloria (from Masque of Angels)
  • Let All the World In Every Corner Sing

Armstrong, Kathy with Bill Cahn

  • Ghana Alleluia (from Babobo)
  • Songs from Gahu (Ghana)

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Bach, J.S.

  • Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4)
  • Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (BWV 12)
  • Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig (BWV 26)
  • Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir (BWV 29)
  • Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ (BWV 67)
  • Gott ist mein Konig (BWV 71)
  • Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht (BWV 105)
  • Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (BWV 106)
  • Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir (BWV 131)
  • Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140)
  • Erschallet, ihr Lieder (BWV 172)
  • Jesu, Meine Freude (BWV 227)
  • Mass in G Major, BMV 236 (orchestra)
  • Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Motet I)
  • Lobet den Herrn (Motet VI)
  • Komm Jesu komm (Motet V) (orchestra)
  • Double Violin Concerto in d minor
  • In Dulci Jubilo

Barber, Samuel

  • Adagio
  • Reincarnations

Bartok, Bela

  • Three Village Scenes
  • Six Women's Songs

Beckwith, John

  • from the Sharon Temple Series:
    The Gowans are Gay
    The Harp that Once Thro' Tara's Halls
    Sharon Fragments

Belmont, Jean

  • If Music Be the Food of Love

Beethoven, L.

  • Choral Fantasy
  • Choral Symphony, Symphony No. 9 (last movement)

Bernstein, Leonard

  • Chichester Psalms
  • Overture to "Candide":
    Aria: Glitter and be Gay
    Chorus: Make our garden grow
  • West Side Story (Orchestral Suites and Choral Selections)
  • Mass (Choral version)
  • Missa Brevis
  • The Lark
  • Hariu l’Adonai (from Chichester Psalms)

Bergs, Roger

  • Be Thou My Vision (world premiere)

Binkerd, Gordon

  • Sung Under the Silver Umbrella (all movements)
  • On the King's Highway (world premiere)
  • Three Slumber Songs

Bliss, Arthur

  • The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God

Brahms, Johannes

  • Ave Maria
  • Four Love Songs
  • A German Requiem
  • Fest und Gedenksprüche
  • Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op 51
  • Schicksalslied
  • Alto Rhapsody
  • Schaffe in mir Gott, Op. 29, No. 2
  • Songs for Women's Voices, Op. 17
  • Songs for Male Voices, Op. 41
  • Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103

Brewbaker, Daniel

  • Psalm 51 (Canadian premiere)
  • Out of the Mist, Above the Real, An Irish Cantata (world premiere)
  • The Brightening Air (world premiere)
  • Birdsongs (Canadian premiere)

Britten, Benjamin

  • A Boy Was Born, Op. 3
  • A. M. D. G. Ad majorem Dei gloriam (Canadian premiere)
  • A Children's Crusade
  • Friday Afternoons, Op. 7
  • St. Nicolas, Op. 42
  • A Ceremony of Carols
  • Hymn to St. Cecelia
  • The Birds
  • Flower Songs
  • Psalm 150, Op. 67
  • Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34

Bruckner, Anton

  • Locus Iste
  • Te Deum

Brunner, David

  • We Are the Music Makers
  • Earthsongs
  • Jubilate Deo
  • Grandfather, Great Spirit

Buczynski, Walter

  • A Ballad of Peace (world premiere)
  • The Mouse, the Bird and the Octopus (world premiere)
  • The Moon, a Butterflly and Us (world premiere)

Burge, John

  • Sunblue (Toronto premiere)
  • Mass for Prisoners of Conscience (world premiere)
  • Magnificat (Toronto premiere)
  • The Fluteplayer (Canadian premiere; Robert Aitkin)
  • Thank You God: A Prayer Cycle
  • Love Divine (world premiere)
  • Now Thanks We All (from New Millennium Hymns)
  • Winter Sun (A Choral Symphony in C)
  • Three Simple Songs (world premiere)

Byrd, William

  • Ave Verum Corpus
  • I Will Not Leave You Comfortless
  • Sing Joyfully
  • Mass for Four Voices

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Cabena, Barrie

  • Gloria Tibi Domine

Chatman, Stephen

  • Songs of a Prospector (complete)

Copland, Aaron

  • The Promise of Living
  • Old American Songs
  • Appalachian Spring
  • The Tender Land
  • Canticle of Freedom
  • An Immortality
  • Three Latin Sketches

Coulthard, Jean

  • Quebec May (Toronto Premiere)

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Daley, Eleanor

  • Requiem

Debussy, Claude

  • Noel des enfants
  • Trois Chanson

Dedrick, Chritpher

  • Joy Sounds

Dello Joio, Norman

  • A Psalm of David
  • St. Cecelia

Durufle, Maurice

  • Requiem
  • Ubi Caritas
  • Tota Pulchra Es

Dvorak, Antonin

  • Slovonic Dance in C Major, Op. 72
  • Symphony No. 9 (New World)

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Elgar, Sir Edward

  • Serenade in E minor, Op. 20
  • Pomp and Circumstance March, Op.39
  • Four Unaccompanied Part Songs, Op. 53
  • Three Motets, Op. 2

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Faure, Gabriel

  • Messe Basse
  • Requiem

Fjellheim, Frode

  • Norwegian Sami Songs (Canadian premiere)

Finzi, Gerald

  • In Terra Pax

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Gabrieli, Giovanni

  • Hodie Christus Natus Est

Galbraith, Craig

  • The Spell of the Rose — WORLD PREMIERE

Glick, Srul Irving

  • The Hour Has Come
  • Sing Unto the Lord a New Song
  • Haleluya
  • Adonai, Adonai (from Triumph of the Spirit)

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Hallberg, Bengt

  • Domaredansen

Hambraeus, Bengt

  • Motetum Archangeli Michaelis

Handel, G. F.

  • Four Coronation Anthems
  • Music, Spread Thy Voice Around (from Solomon)
  • The Messiah
  • Water Music: Suites in F, D, and G
  • Judas Maccabeus

Hatfield, Stephen

  • Missa Brevis
  • African Celebration
  • As Above, So Below (world premiere)
  • Run Children Run
  • Überlebengroß

Hatzis, Christos

  • Four Rituals (world premiere, Nexus)

Haydn, Joseph

  • The Creation
  • Te Deum

Henderson, R.Watson

  • Gloria (world premiere)
  • Lullaby to the Christ Child
  • Shades of Love (Canadian premiere)

Hofmeyr, Hendrick

  • Requiem (Canadian premiere)
  • Pie Jesu

Holman, Derek

  • Missa Brevis
  • Tapestry
  • The Present Time
  • A Little Birthday Mass
  • Carols
  • Night Music
  • A Song to David
  • Creatures Great and Small
  • Little Birthday Mass

Honegger, Arthur

  • Une Cantate de Noel
  • King David

Humperdinck, E.

  • Hansel and Gretel

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Jagoda, Flory (arr. Nick Page)

  • Hamisha Asar

Kesselman, Lee

  • Shona Mass
  • Kadosh/Benedictus
  • Scottish Folksongs

Kulesha, Gary

  • Crossings (world premiere)
  • Shaman Songs

Kuzmenko, Larysa

  • Dreams
  • Faywood School Songs (world premiere)
  • Spirits of the Dead

Kyr, Robert

  • Three Psalms of Praise (Canadian premiere)

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Lang, Rupert

  • Agneau di Dieu
  • Like a Child
  • Spirit of the Child (American premiere)
  • Cantate Domino
  • Kontakion
  • Ubi Caritas
  • Mass for Many Nations

Lauridsen, Morten

  • Lux Aeterna

Leek, Stephen

  • Ngana
  • Kungala (world premiere)

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MacMillan, Sir Ernest

  • England: An Ode
  • Song of Deliverance
  • God Save the Queen

MacMillan, James

  • Heycoka Te Deum (world premiere)

Mahler, Gustav

  • Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Martin, Frank

  • Mass for Double Chorus

Mathias, William

  • Shakespeare Songs
  • Regina Coeli

Mendelssohn, Felix

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61
  • Heilig ist Gott der Herr Zeboath
  • Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 52, "Lobegesang"
  • Weinachtkantate, "Von Himmel hoch"

Mercure, Pierre

  • Cantate Pour Une Joie

Morawetz, Oskar

  • Passacaglia on a Bach Chorale

Mozart, W.A.

  • Regina coeli, K. 267
  • Venite populi, K. 260 (248a)
  • Litaniae Lauretanae, K. 195
  • Sancta Maria
  • Mass in C Major (Coronation) K.317
  • Symphony No. 28 in C Major K. 200
  • German Dances, K.605
  • Overture Le nozze di Figaro
  • Concerto in D for Piano and Orchestra, K.451
  • The Magic Flute

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Nunez, Francisco

  • Three Dominican Folksongs
  • Cantan
  • Four Spanish Lullabies
  • Misa pequena para ninos
  • Pange Lingua
  • Los Primeros Pastores

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Orff, Carl

  • Carmina Burana

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Page, Nick

  • Love the Earth
  • Nursery Rhyme Cantata
  • The Seven Wonders
  • Thula S'Thandwa (Nick Page, arr.)

Parry, C. H.

  • Songs of Farewell
  • Jerusalem
  • I Was Glad

Part, Arvo

  • Magnificat

Pergolesi, G.B.

  • Stabat Mater

Pinkham, Daniel

  • Angels Are Everywhere
  • Christmas Cantata

Poulenc, Francis

  • Gloria
  • Mass in C Major
  • Litanes a la vierge noir

Purcell, Henry

  • Ode for St. Cecilia's Day

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Raminsh, Imant

  • Agnus Dei (from Missa Brevis in C)
  • Alleluia, Amen (world premiere)
  • Lullaby
  • Magnificat (Canadian premiere)
  • Latvian Folk Songs
  • Songs of the Lights, Set I (world premiere)
  • Songs of the Lights, Set II (world premiere)
  • Gloria (Toronto premiere)
  • Ave Maria
  • O Ignis Spiritus
  • Rise up my Love (Canadian premiere)
  • In the Beginning
  • I Will Sing to the Lord
  • Veni Creator Spiritus
  • Into an Unknown Land
  • Chariot Children
  • Vestigia
  • In the trail of the wind, in the shadow of God: a cantata of life

Ravel, Maurice

  • The Bewitched Child (from L'enfant et les sortileges)

Robinovitch, Sid

  • Two Inuit Songs

Rogers, Wayland

  • Cantate Sing!
  • O Give Thanks
  • Wonderous Love

Rossi, Salamone

  • Odekha

Rutter, John

  • Hymn to the Creator of LIght

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Sandstrom, Jan

  • Gloria

Schaefer, R. Murray

  • Magic Songs
  • Miniwanka

Scheidt, Samuel

  • In Dulci Jubilo

Schultz, D. G.

  • Orkney Lullaby
  • The Banks of Doon

Shaw, Geoffery

  • Hymn — All Praise and Thanks to God

Sibelius, Jean

  • Finlandia

Sirett, Mark

  • The Parting Glass
  • Watane

Shearing, George

  • Music to Hear

Smetana, B.

  • The Bartered Bride Overture

Stanford. C.V.

  • Three Motets, Op. 38
  • Magnificat (Toronto premiere)

Stenhammar, Wilhelm

  • Three Choral Ballads

Stravinsky, Igor

  • Symphony of Psalms
  • Mass for Mixed Choir
  • Ave Maria
  • Le Rossignol Chorus Scenes
  • Les Noces

Stroope, Z. Randall

  • Dona Nobis Pacem

Swayne, Giles

  • Lonely Hearts — WORLD PREMIERE
  • Missa Tiburtina
  • Petite Messe Solitaire (Candian premiere)

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Talma, Louise

  • Choral Suite

Thomas, Andre

  • Keep Your Lamps (Andre Thomas, arr.)

Thomson, Virgil

  • Theme and Variations on Yankee Doodle

Ticheli, Frank

  • There Will Be Rest

Tippett, Michael

  • A Child of Our Time (Spirituals)

Tormis, Veljo

  • St. John's Songs (from Estonian Calendar Songs)

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Vitoria, Thomas Luis de

  • Mass: Alma Redemptoris

Vivaldi, Antonio

  • Gloria

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Walton, William

  • Jubilate Deo

Weelkes, Thomas

  • Sing, my soul, to God

Weinzweig, John

  • In the Arms of Morpheus

Willan, Healey

  • Hodie, Christus natus est

Williams, R. Vaughan

  • Serenade to Music
  • Shakespeare Songs
  • Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Fantasia on Christmas Carols
  • Five Mystical Songs
  • Folksongs of the Four Seasons
  • Mass in G Minor
  • Sine Nomine