Repertoire

​In both rounds you are advised to choose pieces which demonstrate your versatility as a conductor. The adjudicators will want to see a demonstration of the candidate’s range and it is most important that your programme reflect technical and emotional variety in your conducting.

Pre-Recorded Video Round

• ​Candidates must conduct their own free choice of repertoire.
• Candidates are not expected to choose pieces from List A or List B (see below) but may do so if they wish.
• Please choose either two or three contrasting pieces, whose combined length does not exceed ten minutes.

Grand Final

• Candidates must choose four programmes, in order of preference, each consisting of one piece from List A and one piece from List B (see below).
• You may not select any piece more than once in your four programmes
• One piece in each programme must have been composed before 1900 and the other after 1900.
• The combined length of your two pieces must not exceed eight minutes, using the timings published here.
• You will be informed on or before Friday 22 June 2018 which two own-choice pieces you are required to prepare.
• During the weekend of the competition, you will be allowed approximately 120 minutes rehearsal time on your two own-choice pieces.
• There will also be a third, compulsory “set piece” supplied to competitors in the Grand Final on or before Friday 22 August 2018, which they will prepare in separate, adjudicated, rehearsals.
• The choirs participating will have undertaken the note-learning of all pieces before the competition.

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List A:

• Ivo Antognini Canticum Novum (Walton, HL00144582) - 2mins40
• David Azurza Ave Virgo Sanctissima (Oihu Hau Musika) - 3mins40
• Samuel Barber The Coolin’ (from Reincarnations) (G. Schirmer, G530146) - 3mins40
• Benjamin Britten Green Broom (Boosey & Hawkes, HL. 48008866) - 1min50
• Anton Bruckner Os Justi (G. Schirmer, G529924) - 4mins30
• William Byrd Sing Joyfully (Novello, NOV290132) - 2mins50
• William Byrd Laudibus in Sanctis (Novello, NOV881000-03) - 5mins30
• Gerald Finzi Nightingales (Boosey & Hawkes, HL.48009740) - 2mins45
• Orlando Gibbons Hosanna to the Son of David (Novello, NOV281015) - 2mins20
• Gunnar Hahn Rondo Lapponico (Gunnar Hahn Musik, 422) - 5mins30
• Gustav Holst Song of the Blacksmith (J. Curwen, JC61086) - 1min30
• Josquin (Des Prez) Gaude, virgo mater Christi (CPDL) - 3mins10
• Zoltán Kodály Norwegian Girls (Boosey & Hawkes, HL.48003221) - 3mins
• Orlando de Lassus Aurora lucis rutilat (Mapa Mundi, 7L?) - 3mins30
• Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Over Hill Over Dale (Sulasol, 434) - 2mins15
• Frank Martin Full Fathom Five (Universal, UE14556) - 3mins
• Frank Martin Kyrie (from Mass for Double Choir) (Barenreiter, BA7594) - 5mins30
• Vytautas Miškinis Dum Medium Silentium (Carus, CA.736300) - 5mins
• György Orbán Orban - Daemon Irrepit Calidus (Hinshaw, HMC-1537) - 1min30
• Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla Deus in adjutorium (GIA, GI.G-4764 ) - 2mins30
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Novella aurora, che nascendo allegri (CPDL) - 2mins
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry My Soul There Is A Country (from Songs of Farewell) (Carus, CA.331180) - 4mins
• Adrian Peacock Venite, Gaudete! (Novello, NOV200563) - 2mins30
• Jake Runestad Alleluia (Runestad, JR0035) - 2mins45
• Heinrich Schütz Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes (Carus, CA. 2045516) - 4mins10
• Urmas Sisask Benedictio (Boosey & Hawkes, HL.48000823) - 4mins50

List B:

• Gyorgy Deak-Bardos Eli, Eli! (Shawnee Press, HL.35005913) - 3mins30
• Johannes Brahms Wo ist ein so herrlich volk (Carus, CV40.122/30) - 5mins
• René Clausen A clear midnight (Shawnee,HL.35000043) - 3mins30
• Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur La Voix du Bien-aimé (from Cantique des cantiques) (Durand, DF01375700) - 3mins
• Julio Dominguez Deus, qui illumines (CM-ediciones) - 5mins
• Daniel Elder Ave Maria (Walton, WW1554) - 4mins50
• Carlo Gesualdo Dolcissima mia vita (Gehrmans, GH.N03747) - 2mins50
• William Harris Faire is the heaven (Banks, 00113) - 5mins
• Gustav Holst This have I done for my true love (Stainer & Bell, ST.20291) - 5mins45
• Gustav Holst Nunc Dimitis (Novello, HL.14015253) - 3mins30
• Bo Holten First Snow (Wilhelm Hansen, WH30365) - 3mins55
• Orlando de Lassus Musica Dei Donum Optima (Handlo) - 3mins
• Kenneth Leighton Drop, drop, slow tears (Novello, HL.14009314) - 3mins30
• Paweł Łukaszewski O Vos Omnes (from Tenebrae Responsories) (Chester, CH78419) - 4mins50
• Alonso Lobo Versa est In Luctum (Mapa Mundi, WW.MM10A) - 4mins50
• Andrej Makor O Emmanuel (Schott, HL.49045587) - 4mins
• Jean Mouton Salva nos, Domine (CPDL) - 2mins15
• John August Pamintuan Pater Noster (Astrum, AS32001/01) - 4mins20
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry There is an old belief (OUP, 9780193518469) - 3mins40
• Francis Pott Ubi Caritas (OUP, OU.9780193439184) - 3mins
• Francis Poulenc Salve Regina (Salabert, SLB00525500) - 4mins46
• John Sheppard Libera Nos I (CPDL) - 3mins40
• Williametta Spencer At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners (Shawnee, HL.35001393) - 2mins
• Thomas Tallis Salvator Mundi (CPDL) - 3mins
• Thomas Tallis In ieiunio et fletu (CPDL) - 4mins
• David Bennett Thomas Gloria Patri (davidbthomas.com) - 4mins45
• Giuseppe Verdi Ave Maria (Carus, CA.4015220) - 5mins20
• William Walton A Litany (OUP, X594364) - 3mins
• John Wilbye Draw on, sweet night (CPDL) - 5mins20
• Felix Zabala Ave Maria (CM-ediciones, CM.2.0194) - 2mins50