Overall

​Rejoice in the Lamb
May 17, 2014
Lukas Foss –  Behold!  I Build an House
Jonathan Dove – Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars
Louis Vierne – Messe Solennelle
Benjamin Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
John Carter – Ride On, King Jesus
Shaw and Parker (arr.) – Sometimes I Feel
Norman Luboff (arr.) – Wade in the WaterMarch 2014
Johann Sebastian Bach – St. John PassionVoices Unite
April 21, 25, 26, 2013
Benjamin Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
Stephen Paulus – Hymn to the Eternal Flame
Stephen Paulus – Pilgrims’ Hymn
J. Gabriel Rheinberger – Mass in a minor (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo)
J. Gabriel Rheinberger – Abendlied
Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms

Mozart Requiem & Songs of Rest
January 26, 2013
John Tavener – Funeral Ikos
Ralph Vaughn Williams –  Rest
C. H. H. Parry – Never Weather-beaten Sail
Frank Ticheli – There Will Be Rest
Ludwig van Beethoven – Elegischer Gesang
Wolfgang A. Mozart – RequiemBlessed and Beloved; Reflections of Vivaldi
May 5, 2012
Giovanni Battista Martini — Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina
Gerald Dinzi — Magnificat
Vivaldi — Magnificat
Chris DeBlasio — The Best-Beloved
Vivaldi — Beatus VirChristmas Concert
December 11, 2011
Ottorino Respighi – Laud to the Nativity
Michael Haydn – Missa Sancti Hieronymi

Home for the Holidays
The Masterwork Chorus with NJSO and Brian Stokes Mitchell
December 9 (NJPAC) & 10 (State Theater), 2011

Elijah
May 1, 2011
Mendelssohn – Elijah

Viva
January 30, 2011
Ernani Aguiar —  Salmo 150
Antonio Estevez — Mata Del Anima Sola
O Vos Omnes — Pablo Casals
Alberto Ginastera — Lamentaciones de Jeremias Propheta
Ariel Ramirez — Misa Criolla

​Dvorak, Mass in D Major
May 2, 2010
Grieg – Ave Maria Stella
Grieg – In Heaven Above
Dvorak – God is My Shepherd,
Dvorak – Sing Ye a Joyful Song
Zemlinsky – Turmwachterlied; Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren
Brahms – Geistliches Lied, Op. 30; Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren
Mendelssohn – Drei geistliches Lieder
Lass’, o Herr, mich Hulfe finden
Deines Kind’s Gebet erhore
Herr, wir trau’n auf deine Gute
Mendelssohn
Jerusalem from St. Paul
Hear Ye Israel from Elijah
Dvorak – Mass in D Major

Flights of Fancy; An Evening of Poetry and Song
April 25, 2009
Anonymous – Sumer is icumen in
Juan del Encina – Cucu!
Mendelssohn – Die Nachtigall
Tchaikovsky – The Nightingale
Brahms – Liebe Schwalbe, Nachtigall, sie singt so schon (from Liebslieder Waltzer)
Leoncavallo – Stridono lassu  (Nedda’s aria from I Pagliacci)
Ravel – Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis (from Trois Chansons)
Vaughan Williams – Turtle Dove
Arr. Shaw/Parker – Sometimes I feel like a Moanin’ Dove
Brahms –  Ein Taublein weiss
Mathias – It was a lover and his lass
Mendelssohn – Aus Flueglen des Gesanges
Whitacre – Little Birds
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2009
Berlioz – Villanelle (from Les Niuts D’Ete)
Arcadelt – Il bianco e dolce cigno
Gibbons -The Silver Swan
Strauss – im Abendrot (from Vier letzte Lieder)
Mercer – Skylark
Leontovich – Shchedrik
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Mid-Winter Songs
February 21,  2009
Poetry, songs and modern dance with The Masterwork Touring Choir and Dance Innovations, Inc.
​Stanford – The Bluebird
Bartok – Wedding Song from Poniky
Lennon and McCartney – Blackbird
Passereau – Il est bel et bon
Vaughan Williams – Turtle Dove
Arr.  Shaw/Parker – Sometimes I feel like a Moanin’ Dove
Lauridsen — Mid-Winter Songs

Two Haydns and a Mozart; a celebration of Viennese Classics
April 27, 2008
Joseph Haydn – Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo (little Organ Mass)
Mozart – Vesperae solennes de Confessore (Solemn Vespers)
Michael Haydn – Requiem in C Minor
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2008
Schumann — Zigeunerleben, In der Fremde, An die Sterne, op 41/1, Widmung, Spanisches Liederspiel (selections)
Wolf – Verborgenheit
Brahms – Meine Liebe is grun, Ziegeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), op. 103 – selections
Bruckner – Locus iste
Rheinberger – Kyrie from Cantus Missae
Mendelssohn – Laudate pueri, Domini, Richte mich, Gott
Franz Schubert – La pastorella al prato, Standchen
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2007
November 3 & 21, 2007
Stravinsky – Ovsen; Near Our Savior’s Church in Chigisakh
Bela Bartok — Gyermek – Es Noi Karok
Bruckner — Te Deum
Orff – Carmina BuranaApril 22, 2007
Blake R. Henson – Requiem: The Good Fence
Johannes Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem

And I Saw a New Heaven
April 29, 2006
Arthur Bliss — Fanfare for a Festive Occasion
Anonymous, 10th Century Spanish — Judicii signum
Paul Hindemith — Apparebit repentina dies
Edgar Bainton — And I Saw a New Heaven
Paul Manz — E’en So Lord Jesus, Quickly Come
George Allen, arr. Roy Ringwald — Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Blake Hensen — Fanfare for the New Jerusalem
Hildegard von Bingen — Ignis spiritus
Stephen Paulus — Visions from Hildegard (Part III)
Spirtual, arr. Robert Shaw and Alice Parker — John saw duh numbuh
Spiritual, arr. Harry T. Burleigh — My Lord, what a mornin’
Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan — Ride on, King Jesus
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2006
Sergei Rachmaninoff — All Night Vigil, op 37 Vespers
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The Glory and the Dream
November 5, 2005
Britten — Rejoice in the Lamb
Bennett — The Glory and the Dream
Albright — Chichester Mass
Bernstein — Chichester Psalms

June 4 & 5, 2005
Mozart’s Requiem with the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey

50th Anniversary Concert
May 7, 2005
Bach – Mass in B Minor

IKOS; a journey into eastern european sacred mystic music
November 6, 2004
Rachmaninov — Bogoroditse Devo
Gorecki — Totus tuus
Chesnokov — Spasyeniye
Part — Seven Magnificat Antiphons
Kodaly – Ave Maria
Stravinsky — Ave Maria
Kodaly – Veni veni Emmanuel
Tavener — Song for Athene
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2004
Handel — Israel in Egypt      
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Cathedral Sounds
May 10, 2003 (a cappella chorus)
Bruckner — Locus Iste
Vaughan Williams — Kyrie, from the Mass in G Minor
Mendelssohn – Richte mich, Gott
Thompson – Say ye to the Righteous, from The Peaceable Kingdom
Faure – Messe basse
Aguiar – Salmo 150
Rachmaninov – Ave Maria

Cathedral Sounds
May 4, 2003
Bruckner — Locus Iste
Rheinberger — Abendlied
Lotti — Crucifixus
Vaughan Williams — Mass in G Minor
Chesnokov — Spaseniye
Rachmaninov — Bogoroditse Devo
Thompson – The Peaceable Kingdom
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2003
Durufle — Requiem
Foss — Behold I Build
Thompson — Last Words of David
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King David & Laud to the Nativity
November 2, 2002
Respighi — Laud to the Nativity
Honegger — King David
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2002
Bach — Christ lag in Todesbanden
Faure — Requiem
Haydn — Lord Nelson Mass
Pergolesi — Stabat Mater
Sampson — Jersey Rain
Vaughan Williams — Dona Nobis Pacem
Wong — Prayer for Peace     
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2001
Brahms — Alto Rhapsody
Brahms — Four Songs for Women’s Chorus, Horns and Harp
Brahms — Schicksalslied
Harrison — Mass to Saint Anthony
Mozart — Great Mass in C Minor
Schumann — Transfiguration of Faust                  
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The Creation
March 18, 2000
Haydn — The Creation (Robert Shaw Translation)
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2000
Handel — Coronation Anthems: (Zadok the Priest, Let Thy Hand be Strengthened, The King Shall Rejoice)
Schubert — Mass No. 2 in G Major
Vaughan Williams — Benedicite
J. S. Bach — Cantata 56, Ich will den Kreuztab gerne tragen
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May 15, 1999
Handel — Dettingen Te Deum
Mozart — Requiem (Robert Levin Completion)

1998
Wright & Forrest — Kismet
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1998
Beethoven — 9th Symphony, 4th Movement
Mendelssohn — Elijah
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May 3, 1997
Gilbert and Sullivan – The Pirates of Penzance  (The Slave of Duty)

March 8, 1997
Brahms — Requiem with the Masterwork Orchestra
Mendelssohn – Scherzo from Midsummer Nit’s Dream
Mendelssohn – Concerto for Violin in E Minor

May 11, 1996
Thompson — Alleluia
n Bernstein — Chichester Psalms
Durufle — Requiem

Praise (with Guest Artists)
October 29, 1995
Thompson – Alleluia
Charpentier – Te Deum
Part – Magnificat
Jones – God has smiled on me
Hudson (arr.) – Blessed be the name
Yancy and Metcalfe – Sign Me Up
Traditional – Every Time I Feel the Spirit

May 21, 1995 (40th Anniversary Gala Concert)
Tchaikovsky — Peasant’s Chorus
Mascagni — Gli arranci olezzano
Verdi — Brindisi
Verdi — Tre volte miagola
Offenbach — Barcarolle, from Tales of Hoffman
Verdi — Vedi! Le fosche. from Il Trovatore
Verdi – Va, pensiero ; from Nabuccco
Puccini — Nessun dorma
Beethoven — 9th Symphony, 4th Movement

​June 11 & 12, 1994
Vivaldi – Gloria
Bach – Wachet Auf (Cantata BWV 140), Excerpts
Handel – Judas Maccabaeus, Excerpts

May 16, 1993
Haydn – Mass in D Minor (Lord Nelson Mass)
Britten – Jubilate Deo
Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
Britten – Te Deum in C

November 21, 1992
Bloch – Sacred Service

May 31, 1992 (The Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra)
Randolph – Elegy for Strings (In memory of Michael May)
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Freed – Sacred Service

April 12, 1992 (with the Livingston Symphony Orchestra)
Brahms — Ein deutches Requiem

A November Choral Fest
November 16 & 17, 1991
Faure — Requiem
Bruckner — Christus Factus Est
de Lattre – Mon coeur se recommande a vous
de Lasso — Echo Song
Billings — David’s Lamentation
Haydn — Vierstimmige Gesange
Handel – Messiah (Excerpts)

May 18, 1991
Bach — Passion According to St. John
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1991
​Weelkes — When David Heard        
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November 17, 1990
Bach — Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring, from Cantata 147
Bach — Magnificat

May 20, 1990
Handel – Four Coronation Anthems
Mozart — Requiem K. 626

May 18, 1990 (The Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall)
Handel – Four Coronation Anthems
Mozart — Requiem K. 626

The Mature Mozart and Haydn
The Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra
November 18, 1989
Symphony No. 41 K. 551 “Jupiter”
Haydn — Mass in Time of War

April 22, 1989
Giannini — Mass No. 2; World Premier, dedicated to the Masterwork Chorus
Mozart — Great Mass in C Minor

1988

A Michael May Memorial Concert
November 19, 1988
​The Masterwork Chorus and the Michael May Festival Chorus
Brahms – Requiem
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May 14, 1988
The Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra
Brahms – Requiem

February 27, 1988
The Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra
Cherubini – Requiem

1987
Mozart — Requiem

1986
Beethoven — Mass in C
Verdi — Requiem

1985
Brahms — Requiem
Handel — Israel in Egypt

1984
Dvorak — Requiem
Faure — Requiem
Mozart — Coronation Mass

1983
Bloch — Sacred Service
Handel — Israel in Egypt
Honegger — King David
Orff — Carmina Burana

1982
Handel — Israel in Egypt (Excerpts)
Haydn — Mass in Time of War
Vaughan Williams — Sea Symphony

1981
Bach — Mass in B Minor
Bloch — Sacred Service
Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 12, K 414
Mozart — Requiem

1980
Beethoven — Choral Fantasy
Bloch — Sacred Service
Brahms — Requiem
Vivald — Gloria

1979
Handel — Solomon
Kodaly — Missa Brevis
Schubert — Mass in G Major

1978
Brahms — Schicksalslied
Faure — Pavanne
Monteverdi — Magnificat
Poulenc — Organ Concerto
Puccini — “Gloria” Mass

1977
Berlioz — Te Deum
Faure — Cantique de Jean Racine
Poulenc — Gloria
Thompson — The Peaceable Kingdom
Various — American Choral Works

1976
Beethoven     Missa Solemnis
Faure    Cantique de Jean Racine
Orff    Carmina Burana
Poulenc    Gloria

1975
Brahms — Requiem
Mendelssohn — Elijah (Excerpts)
NJ Composers — Varied Program

1974
Bach — Cantata No. 140 “Wachet Auf”
Brahms — Requiem
Mendelssohn — Elijah (Excerpts)
Orff — Carmina Burana

1973
Beethoven — Choral Fantasy
Durufle — Requiem
Haazen — Missa Luba
Orff — Carmina Burana

1972
Beethoven — 9th Symphony, 4th Movement
Monteverdi — Lagrime d’amante
Orff — Carmina Burana
Vivaldi — Beatus vir

1971
Bernstein — Chichester Psalms
Faure —  Requiem
Verdi —   Requiem
Vivaldi  —  Gloria

1970
Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms — Requiem

1969
Janowsk — Compassion Cantata
Kodaly — Missa Brevis
Mozart — Requiem
Mozart — Symphony No. 39
Orff — Carmina Burana

1968
Bach — Mass in B Minor
Purcell — The Fairy Queen

1967
Orff — Carmina Burana
Vaughan Williams — Mass in G Minor

1966
Bach — Passion According to St. Matthew

1965
Bach — Magnificat
Bach — Suite No. 4 for Orchestra
Handel — Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 5 for Orchestra
Various — A cappella works by Contemporary Israeli Composers
Vivaldi — Gloria

1964
Bach — Mass in B Minor
Various — A cappella works by Contemporary Israeli Composers

1963
Bach — Passion According to St. John
Brahms — Requiem
Mozart — Requiem
Mozart — Symphony No. 39

1962
Beethoven — “Egmont” Overture
Beethoven — Symphony No.3 “Eroica”
Brahms — Requiem

1961
Bach — Mass in B Minor

1960
Bach — Christmas Oratorio
Handel — Solomon

1959
Beethoven — Choral Fantasy
Purcell — The Fairy Queen

1958
Bach — Christmas Oratorio
Bach — Passion According to St. John

1957
Bach — Passion According to St. Matthew
Monteverdi — Lagrime d’amante & 16th Century, works for double chorus

1956
Bach — Mass in B Minor
Monteverdi —  Lagrime d’amante & 16th Century, works for double chorus
Mozart — Requiem
Mozart — The Magic Flute (Excerpts)

1955

​Beethoven — Symphony No. 9