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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

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