NLCC

Repertoire

Works marked ‘wp’ or ‘ukp’ were given their world or UK premières by NLCC.

Composer Work
Ablinger, Peter Studien nach der Natur
Adriaansz, Peter Three Studies on Elevation (Commissioned 2010 by Bert Palinckx and November Music for NLCC, wp, ukp)
Alvarez, Javier Calacas imaginarias (NLCC commission, wp, ukp)
Andreevska, Jana By the lake (wp of full choir version)
Andrieu, François Armes, amours / o flour des flours
Ashley, Robert She Was A Visitor
Avramovski, Risto Elegy (wp, ukp)
Bach, Johann Sebastian Fürchte dich nicht
Jesu, meine Freude
Komm, Jesu komm
Lobet den Herrn
Singet dem Herrn
St John Passion
St Matthew Passion
Bainbridge, Simon Eicha
Banchieri, Adriano Four Hungarian Folksongs
Four Slovak Folksongs
Il festino nelle sera del giovedi grasso avanti cena
Barry, Gerald The Coming of Winter
Bedford, David Wide, wide in the roses side
Beethoven, Ludwig van Symphony No. 9
Bell, Iain London’s Fatal Fire (Commissioned 2015 by Minjas Zugik and others for NLCC, wp, ukp)
Bergman, Erik Bim, Bam, Bum
Faglarna
Hathor Suite
Nox
Berio, Luciano Cries of London
Bingham, Judith Unpredictable but Providential
Birtwistle, Harrison On the Sheer Threshold of the Night
The Gleam
Bolivian traditional Folksongs and dances
Boulanger, Lili Du fond de l’abîme
Hymne au soleil
Les sirènes
Pour les funérailles d’un soldat
Renouveau
Soir sur la plaine
Brahms, Johannes Fest- und Gedenksprüche
Five Songs Op.104
Four Songs Op.42
Liebeslieder Waltzer
Warum ist das Licht gegeben?
Britten, Benjamin A boy is born
Hymn to St Cecilia
Hymn to the Virgin
Rejoice in the Lamb
Sacred and Profane
Browne, John O Maria salvatoris mater
Brumel, Antoine Nato canunt
Busnois, Antoine Antoni usque
In hydraulis
Byrd, William Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Ave verum corpus
Cage, John Four2
Living Room Music
Carcas, Gillian Ascension
Carissimi, Giacomo Jepthe
Carver, Robert Missa: Dum Sacrum Mysterium
Challulau, Tristan-Patrice Farben (NLCC 20th anniversary composition prize winner, wp, ukp)
Ciconia, Johannes Doctorum / Melodia / Vir
Crawford Seeger, Ruth Three Chants for women’s chorus (wp, ukp)
Dallapiccola, Luigi Canti di prigionia
Due cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti
Tempus destruendi, tempus aedificandi
Danajloska, Evdokija Three Songs for the Wounded Human Being (Commissioned 2010 by Minjas Zugik for NLCC, wp)
Davies, Tansy Christmas Eve
De la Rue, Pierre Requiem
Debussy, Claude Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
Salut printemps
Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans
Denyer, Frank A Monkey’s Paw (wp)
Music for Two Performers
The Fish that became the Sun
des Prez, Josquin Déploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem
Déploration ‘Nymphes des bois’
Illibata
Missa: Hercules Dux Ferrariae
Missa: Pange Lingua
Praeter rerum
Dufay, Guillaume Ave Regina
Nuper rosarum flores
Dusapin, Pascal Umbrae mortis
Elgar, Edward The Spirit of the Lord
Fauré, Gabriel Requiem
Feldman, Morton For Stefan Wolpe
Rothko Chapel
Finnissy, Michael Gedächtnis-Hymne (Commissioned 2010 by NLCC and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, wp, ukp)
Francesconi, Luca Let me Bleed (Commissioned 2001 by Isabel Nisbet for NLCC, wp, ukp)
Gabrieli, Andrea Magnificat (à 12)
Gabrieli, Giovanni Jubilemus singuli
O Jesu mi dulcissime
O Magnum Mysterium
Timor et tremor
Gesualdo, arr. Stravinsky Tres sacrae cantiones
Gesualdo, Carlo Ardens est cor meum; O vos omnes
Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday
Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday
Gibbons, Orlando Hosanna to the Son of David
Glass, Philip Noh Plays (Einstein on the Beach)
Three Songs
Goehr, Alexander Psalm 4
Graham Songs from Quebec
Gubaidulina, Sofia Jauchzt vor Gott
Requiem Fragments
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Pelle Four Madrigals from the Natural World
Three Stages
Gudnadóttir, Hildur The Shadow of the Sun
Guerrero, Francisco Battle Mass
Handel, Georg Friedrich Il Allegro, il Pensieroso ed il Moderato
Harvey, Jonathan Ashes Dance Back (wp, ukp)
Come, Holy Ghost
Forms of Emptiness (wp, ukp)
How could the soul not take flight?
I love the Lord
Lauds
Mothers shall not cry (wp, ukp)
Passion and Resurrection
Sobre un Éxtasis de Alta Contemplación
The Angels
The Annunciation
The Summer Cloud’s Awakening (wp, ukp)
Haydn, Joseph Harmoniemesse
Little Organ Mass
Nelson Mass
Schöpfungsmesse
Henze, Hans Werner Cantata della fiabba estrema
Heppener, Robert Del iubilo del core che esce in voce
Hesketh, Kenneth Like the Sea, Like Time (wp, ukp)
Holst, Gustav Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
The Evening-watch
The Planets
Holten, Bo Choral Fragment
O rose, thou art sick
Pavane-Fantasia
Ives, Charles Psalm 67
Psalm 90
Jackson, Gabriel Sanctum est verum lucem
Janáček, Leoš Diary of one who disappeared
Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy
Hradčanské píšničky
Kaspar Rucky
Otče náš (Our Father)
Říkadla
Sedmdesát tisíc (The 70,000)
Vlčí stopa (The Wolf’s track)
Janequin, Clément La Guerre
Kagel, Mauricio Anagrama
Burleske (ukp)
Die Mutation
Gegenstimmen
Les Inventions d’Adolphe Sax (ukp)
Mitternachtsstück
Schwarzes Madrigal (ukp)
Vom Hörensagen
Karetnikov, Nikolai Three Motets for male voices
Kodály, Zoltan Hymn to King Stephen
Veni, veni Emmanuel
Kuivila, Ronald City of no allusions
Kurtág, György Eight Tandori Choruses
Omaggio a Luigo Nono
Lachenmann, Helmut Consolation II (ukp)
Lang, David again (after ecclesiastes)
Lassus, Orlando di Aurora lucis rutilat (from Lamentations)
Lawrence The Echoing Green
Lazarin, Branko Divici Mariji (wp)
Le Hérissier, Julien tes monts – tes yeux – ton âme (wp)
Le Jeune, Claude Chansons
Ligeti, György Clocks & Clouds
Drei Phantasien
Haj, ifjuság!
Kállai Kettös
Lux Aeterna
Magyar Etudok
Nacht und Morgen
Lutyens, Elisabeth Motet
Machaut, Guillaume de Two Ballades (arr. Kagel)
Macmillan, James Alleluia
O bone Jesu
Maw, Nicholas Swete Jesu
Maxwell Davies, Peter Five Motets
One Star, At Last
Messiaen, Olivier Cinq Rechants
O sacrum convivium
Trois petites liturgies
Mettraux, Laurent La plus belle des lumières (wp)
Miller, Cassandra The City, Full of People
Monk, Meredith Afternoon Melodies
Astronaut Anthem
Earth Seen from Above
Nightfall
Panda Chant II
Quarry Weave
Monteverdi, Claudio 1610 Vespers
Cantate Domino
Christe adoramus te
Dixit Dominus
Domine ne in furore tuo
Fifth Book of Madrigals (5)
Laudate Dominum terzo
Sestina
Morales, Cristóbal de Jubilate Deo
Moret, Norbert Triptyque pour les Fêtes
Muldowney, Dominic Mary
Murail, Tristan Amaris et dulcibus aquis
Nicholls, Jon Voices I
Nobuto, Ben The nearness of things (wp, ukp)
Nono, Luigi Caminantes Ayacucho (ukp)
Nystedt, Knut Immortal Bach
Nørgård, Per I hear the rain
Wie ein Kind
Obrecht, Jacob Factor orbis
Salve crux
Ockeghem, Johannes Missa Pro Defunctis
Oliveros, Pauline Sound Patterns
Tuning Meditation
Padilla, Juan Gutiérrez de Three motets
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da Missa: Tu es Petrus
Sicut cervus
Palmer He
Pärt, Arvo Magnificat
Seven Magnificat Antiphons
Peñalosa, Francisco de Missa: Ave Maria
Petrassi, Goffredo Motetti per la passione
Poulenc, Francis Chanson à boire
Chansons françaises
Figure humaine
Four Lenten motets
Petites voix
Sept chansons
Un soir de neige
Prado, Almeida Celebratio Amorio et Gaudii (ukp)
Tres Canticos de Amor (ukp)
Purcell, Henry Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes mei
Verse Anthems
Rakhmaninov, Sergei Vespers
Ravel, Maurice Trois chansons
Regis, Johannes O Admirabile
Reich, Steve Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
Rheinberger, Josef Abendlied
Saariaho, Kaija Nuits, Adieux
Salinas, Arturo Stelmni (ukp)
Svetlina (wp)
Sandström, Sven-David Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
Hear my Prayer, o Lord
Komm, Jesu, komm
Lobet den Herrn
Sawer, David Stramm Gedichte (NLCC 20th anniversary commission, wp, ukp)
Saxton, Robert Chaconne
Scelsi, Giacinto Antifona
Sauh III & IV
Three Latin Prayers
TKRDG (ukp)
Tre Canti Popolari
Tre Canti Sacri
Yliam (wp, ukp)
Scherchen, Tona Tzi
Schnittke, Alfred Concerto for Mixed Voices
Minnesang
Sonnengesang
Stimmen der Natur
Schönberg, Arnold A Survivor from Warsaw
De profundis
Drei Satiren
Drei Volksliedssätze
Dreimal tausend Jahre
Folksongs (1948)
Friede auf Erden
Six Pieces for Male Chorus, Op.35
Vier Stücke
Schubert, Franz Gesang der Geister über den Wässern
Gesang der Gondelfahrer
Gott in der Natur
Mirjam’s Siegesgesang
Nachthelle
Psalm 23
Ständchen
Schumann, Robert Four Songs Op.59
Schütz, Heinrich Deutsches Magnificat
Ich hebe meine Augen auf zu den Bergen (Psalm 121)
Italian Madrigals
Musikalische Exequien
Psalmen Davids
Sciarrino, Salvatore Tutti i miraggi delle acque
Sheppard, John Libera nos
Sacris solemniis
Shostakovich, Dmitry Symphony No.13 ‘Baba Yar’
Sierra, Roberto Cantos Populares (wp, ukp)
Skempton, Howard After Rain (wp, ukp)
Spasov, Miroslav Echos (wp, ukp)
Stockhausen, Karlheinz Chöre für Doris
Litanei 97 (ukp)
Stravinsky, Igor A Sermon, Narrative, and a Prayer
Babel Cantata
Credo; Pater Noster; Ave Maria
Four Russian Peasant Songs
Introitus: T S Eliot in memoriam
Les Noces (1919 and 1926 versions)
Mass
Requiem Canticles
Symphony of Psalms
The Dove Descending
The Flood
Threni
Tres sacrae cantiones (arranged from Gesualdo)
Swayne, Giles The Tiger
Tabachnik, Michel le Pacte des Onze (wp)
Takemitsu, Toru Grass
Wind Horse
Tallis, Thomas Gaude gloriosa
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Miserere nostri
Spem in alium
Tavener, John Canticle of the Mother of God
Flood of Beauty (wp, ukp)
He has entered the Heven
Taverner, John Dum transisset sabbatum
Missa: Gloria tibi Trinitas
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Hymn to the Virgin
Thorvalsdottir, Anna Heyr þú oss himnum á
Tippett, Michael Four Folksongs from the British Isles
The Crown of the Year
Turnage, Mark-Anthony Misere Nobis
One Hand in Brooklyn Heights (wp, ukp)
Verdi, Giuseppe Pater noster
Victoria, Tomas Luis de Battle Mass
Lamentations
Missa da Requiem
Tenebrae Responsories
Viñao, Alejandro Epitafios (NLCC 1999 commission, wp, ukp)
Vivier, Claude Jesus, erbarme dich
O! Kosmos
Webern, Anton 2 pieces, Op.2
Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen
Weeks, James The Freedom of the Earth (NLCC 30th anniversary commission, wp, ukp)
Weir, Judith Missa del Cid (arr. Parrott) (wp, ukp)
Wilkinson Counting Song (wp, ukp)
Williams, Adrian Longing Songs
Wood, James Cantata II
Choroi kai Thaliai
Hildegard (wp, ukp)
Incantamenta (wp, ukp)
Ode to St Michael
Phaedrus (wp, ukp)
Phainomena (wp, ukp)
Séance (wp, ukp)
Three Choruses to Cummings (wp, ukp)
Tongues of Fire (wp, ukp)
Woolrich, John Earth Grown Old
Spring in Winter
Wylkynson, Robert Jesus autem transiens / Credo in Deum
Xenakis, Iannis À Colone (ukp)
À Hélène (ukp)
Bacchae
Cendrées (ukp)
Idmen (ukp)
Knephas (Commissioned 1990 by Pierre Audi for NLCC, wp, ukp)
Medea Senecae (ukp)
Nuits
Oresteia
Pour la paix (ukp)
Serment (ukp)
Zelenka, Jan Dismas Magnificat
Zev Gordon, Michael Allele (Commissioned 2010 for NLCC by Andrew Morley with Wellcome Trust Arts Award, wp, ukp)
Zimmermann Jeder hat seinen Ort