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Repertoire

Cascadian Chorale performs music from throughout the classical tradition. Here is a small sample of recent repertoire. 

  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Der Geist hilft (1729), Jesu, meine Freude (1735?), Singet dem Herrn (1727?)

  • Carol Barnett – The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass (2007)

  • Eric William Barnum – The Human Heart (2013)

  • Sally Beamish – In the stillness (2007)

  • John Bennet – Weep, O mine eyes (1599)

  • Franz Biebl – Ave Maria (1964)

  • William Billings – David’s Lamentation (1778), Euroclydon (1781)

  • Johannes Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem (1868), Liebeslieder Walzer (1869), Schaffe in mir, Gott (1857?)

  • Benjamin Britten – Five Flower Songs (1950), Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942)

  • Anton Bruckner – Ave Maria (1861), Virga Jesse (1885)

  • Harry T. Burleigh – My Lord, what a mornin’ (1918)

  • William Byrd – Laudibus in sanctis (1591), Mass for four voices (c.1593)

  • William L. Dawson – Soon ah will be done (1934)

  • Josquin Des Prez – Ave Maria … virgo serena (c.1484?)

  • Hugo Distler – Die Weihnachtsgeschichte (1933), Singet dem Herrn (1934)

  • Guillaume Du Fay (1397–1474) – Ave regina cælorum

  • Maurice Duruflé – Quatre motets sur des themes grégoriens (1960)

  • Reena Esmail – The Unexpected Early Hour (2021)

  • Gerald Finzi – Clear and gentle stream (1934?), My spirit sang all day (1937)

  • Jessica French – The Oxen (2012)

  • Nicolas Gombert – Lugebat David Absalon (1564)

  • Moses Hogan – The Battle of Jericho (1996)

  • William Horsley – Slow, fresh fount (1822)

  • Abraham Kaplan – Eight Days of Chanukah (2010)

  • Morten Lauridsen – Madrigali (1987)

  • Naomi LaViolette – Night of Silence (2021)

  • Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Canticum calamitatis maritimæ (1997)

  • Cecilia McDowall – A Winter’s Night (2014)

  • Felix Mendelssohn – Weihnachten (1843)

  • Claudio Monteverdi – Se per havervi, oime (1587)

  • Jean de Ockeghem (c.1410–1497) – Ave Maria

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Hodie Christus natus est (1575)

  • Hubert Parry – Never weather-beaten sail (1914), There is an old belief (1915)

  • Arvo Pärt – Magnificat (1989), Tribute to Caesar (1997)

  • Robert Lucas Pearsall – Lay a garland (1840)

  • Ástor Piazzolla – Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (1969)

  • Francis Poulenc – Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël (1952), Un soir de neige (1944)

  • Hieronymous Praetorius – Magnificat quinti toni (1602)

  • Sergei Rachmaninov – All-Night Vigil (1915)

  • Heinrich Schütz – Ein Kind ist uns geboren (1648)

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar – September (1890)

  • Jan Pieteszoon Sweelinck – Hodie Christus natus est (1619)

  • Pärt Uusberg – Muusika (2008)

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams – Five English Folksongs (1913), Three Shakespeare Songs (1951)

  • William Walton – Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (1974), The Twelve (1965)

  • Eric Whitacre – Cloudburst (1991)

  • Giselle Wyers – And All Shall Be Well (2017)

Cascadian Chorale has long championed new works, especially of Seattle-area composers. Here is a complete list of world premieres by the Cascadian Chorale, with the year of first performance.

  • Jeremy Kings – Noël Huron (2024)

  • Sheila Bristow – Winter Solstice (version for piano) (2024) [commission]

  • Tara O’Brien Pride – Free toes (2024)

  • Bronwyn Edwards – Terra Australis (2023)

  • Joy DeCoursey-Porter – I shall not live in vain (2019)

  • Joy DeCoursey-Porter – Though no fruit be on the vines (2019)

  • Jeremy Kings – Stormy weather (2018)

  • Joy DeCoursey-Porter – Dum spiro spero (2017)

  • Charles Lovekin – A Christmas Carol (2017)

  • Christopher Lee Fraley – Reminiscence (2017)

  • Jeremy Kings – There is no rose (2017)

  • Joy DeCoursey-Porter – There was the One (2017)

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – Three Choruses from ‘Mark Me Twain’ (2017)

  • Christopher Lee Fraley – He was born in spring (2017)

  • William Averitt – In the bleak midwinter (2016)

  • Reginald Unterseher – Oberon (2016) [commission]

  • Karen P. Thomas – Take, O take those lips away (2016)

  • Giselle Wyers – A Lantern Voice (2014) [commission]

  • Christopher Lee Fraley – Let us be merry (2014)

  • Christopher Lee Fraley – Let all mortal flesh keep silence (2014)

  • Edward MacDowell (arr. Gary D. Cannon) – To a Wild Rose (2014)

  • Jeremy Kings – A Red, Red Rose (2013)

  • Joy DeCoursey-Porter – Mondnacht (2013)

  • Greg Bartholomew – Moon Man (2012)

  • Christopher Lee Fraley – I shall not care (2012)

  • Christopher Lee Fraley – Missa brevis (2011)

  • Christopher Lee Fraley – The Plains (2011)

  • William Hawley – Spring Light (2011)

  • Gary D. Cannon – Set me as a seal upon thine heart (2011)

  • Giselle Wyers – Two Rumi Songs (2007)

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – Love Letters (2005)

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – Euphrates (2004) [commission]

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – Thanksgiving Day, 1861: One Vacant Chair (2003)

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – Mirror of Love (2002)

  • David White – Four Choral Songs of e.e. cummings (2002)

  • Troy Peters – Devouring Time (2000)

  • Troy Peters – Summers’ Day (2000)

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – Seven Last Words, #2, 3, 4, 6 (2000) [commission]

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – Aye! Sing we now (1999)

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – Silly shepherds, stop your sleeping (1999)

  • Bern Herbolsheimer – O come, O come, Emmanuel (1999)

  • Troy Peters – Comrades and Lovers (1996)

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