< World Premiere > JAMES MacMILLAN : Mass of St. Edward the Confessor (for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir) Wednesday 29 June, 2022 – Westminster Abbey, London Choir of Westminster Abbey, cond. James O'Donnell Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd., 2021 (BH20137)

< World Premiere > JULIAN ANDERSON : Nunc Dimittis (for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir) Sunday 25 June, 2017 St. James Church Sussex Gardens, London, England Choir of Gonville and Caius College, cond. Geoffrey Webber Schott Music Ltd., London, 2017 (ED 13986)

< World Premiere > ERNST PEPPING : Johannes der Täufer. Ecce mitto angelum meum (for unaccompanied SATB div. choir) Sunday 24 June, 1962 Loccum Abbey, Rehburg-Loccum, Germany Göttinger Stadtkantorei, dir. Ludwig Doormann Bärenreiter Verlag, 1962 (BA 4357)

< World Premiere > ROBIN HOLLOWAY : He-She-Together, Op. 38 No. 2 (for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir) Saturday 21 June, 1980 – Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Oriana Choir, cond. Leon Lovett Texts: James Joyce – 'Alone', 'On the Beach at Fontana', and 'A Prayer' Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd., 1980

< World Premiere > ERNST PEPPING : Der Wagen (for unaccompanied SATB choir) Tuesday 16 June, 1942 – Dresden, Germany Dresdner Kreuzchor, dir. Rudolf Mauersberger Texts : Josef Weinheber (1892–1945) B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz, 1942 (BSS 3902-7)

< World Premiere > FRANCIS GRIER : lit by holy fire: a celebration of Vespers (for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli) Sunday 15 June, 2014 King's College Chapel, Cambridge, England Choir of King's College, Cambridge, cond. Stephen Cleobury Cathedral Music, 2011 (CM1096) Texts: Poems by Elizabeth Cook, Antiphons from Cloverdale's translation of the Psalms “The music is set for unaccompanied choir. The scoring and musical atmosphere follows the emotional sequence of the poems, leading essentially from darkness to light, from music often of brooding intensity and simplicity towards more complex and more animated forms and tonal pictures. The full resources of the choir are utilised, from unison and homophony to fully contrapuntal configurations. Solo voices from all the different sections of the choir sing in contrast to the tutti; the dynamic range is extreme; and the tessitura in all parts ranges from the lowest to the highest vocal ranges. The musical style overall is intended to show some indebtedness to Rachmaninov’s soaring setting.” – Francis Grier & Elizabeth Cook

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<World Premiere > CHRISTOPHER BROWN : Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 7 (for unaccompanied SATB div. choir) Monday 14 June, 1965 – King's College, Cambridge, England Choir of King's College, Cambridge, cond. Sir. David Willcocks

< World Premiere > SVEN DAVID SANDSTRÖM : Etyd nr 4, som i e-moll (for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & solo Baritone) Saturday 11 June, 1988 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City Hägerstens Motettkör, dir. Ingemar Månsson Text: Tobias Berggren AB Nordiska Musikförlaget, 1987 (NMS 10589)

< World Premiere > MATTHEW MARTIN : A Rose Magnificat (for unaccompanied double SATB choir) Thursday 8 June, 2017 – St. John's Smith Square, London The Gabrieli Consort, cond. Paul McCreesh Novello & Company, Ltd., 2017 (NOV 296978)

< World Premiere > KAIKHOSRU SORABJI : Rosario d’Arabeschi, KSS79 Wednesday 6 June, 1979 – Wigmore Hall, London, England Yonty Solomon, Piano solo

< World Premiere > ALISSA FIRSOVA : Stabat Mater, Op. 30 (for unaccompanied SATB div. choir) Wednesday 4 June, 2014 LSO St. Luke's, London, England The Sixteen, cond. Harry Christophers

< World Premiere > GILES SWAYNE : Stabat Mater (for unaccompanied SSAATTBB & SATB soli) Thursday 3 June, 2004 – Priory Park Chapel, Bath, England Bath Camerata, cond. Nigel Perrin Gonzaga Music, London, 2004 (GZ019) “Men, women and children still die violent deaths in Palestine and Israel, and their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters still mourn and bury them – it is always the women who are left behind. That is the burden of this piece. It is not sacred music : it celebrates our common humanity. My setting incorporates into the Latin poem the Aramaic & Hebrew text of 'Kaddish', the blessing 'Barukh uvarukh' from the 'Talmud Babli', and the Arabic of the 'Salaat al-Jinàaza' – inserting them between the stanzas of the Latin poem to create a communal ritual of grief.” – Giles Swayne

< World Premiere > LENNOX BERKELEY : Spring at this Hour, Op. 37, No. 2 Monday 1 June, 1953 – London Cambridge University Madrigal Society Golden Age Singers, cond. Boris Ord Chester Music, CH55399

< World Premiere > ERNST PEPPING : Lob der Träne oder Der Welten Lauf (for unaccompanied SATB choir) Saturday 30 May, 1942 – Berlin, Germany Chor der Berliner Kirchenmusikschule, dir. Gottfried Grote Bärenreiter Verlag, 1948 (BA1827)

< World Premiere > DANIËL De LANGE : Requiem (1868) (for unaccompanied SATB-SATB choir & SATB-SATB soli) Thursday 27 May, 1993 – Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Nederlands Kamerkoor, cond. Uwe Gronostay Nederlands Muziek Instituut, 1992 / Donemus (Ed. 10538)

< World Premiere > FRANCIS POTT : The Souls of the Righteous are in the Hand of God (for unaccompanied SATB-SATB choir & Tenor solo) Sunday 20 May, 2000 – Winchester Cathedral, England Winchester Cathedral Choir, cond. Dr. David Hill William Kendall, Tenor Text : Wisdom of Solomon, 3:1–3 G. Ricordi & Co. London Ltd., 2005 (RICL 021)

< World Premiere > CHRISTOPHER BROWN : Aubade, Op. 17 (for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli) Wednesday 15 May, 1968 – Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Elizabethan Singers, cond. Herrick Bunney Text : Robert Herrick, William Davenant, and Edmund Spenser Chester Music, 1999 (CH55114)

ERNST PEPPING : Das Weltgericht ( for unaccompanied SATB choir) Thursday 15 May, 1958 Berlin (zum 50 jährigen Jubiläum des Ev. Johannesstifts) Spandauer Kantorei, dir. Hanns-Martin Schneidt Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel, 1958 (BA03218)

< World Premiere > PAUL HINDEMITH : Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp, and Orchestra Sunday 15 May, 1949 McMillan Academy Theatre, Columbia University, New York CBS Symphony Orchestra, cond. Thor Johnson Schott Music Ltd., London, 1950 (ED 4604)