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 |