Choir Repertoire

Resources for the St James' Choir'

On this page you can see and hear some rehearsal aids for items in the St James’ choir repertoire. 

Training files marked Watch & Play are YouTube videos showing a play-along score of vocal parts. Other examples are provided for Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass where possible.

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Canticles [Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis]

Beach, Amy: Nunc Dimittis Multitude of Voices Watch&Play Teaching video Brewer: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in Bflat Magnificat(Southwell Minster) Nunc Dimittis (Laudate) Watch&Play Dyson: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F Magnificat (St Hughes Singers) Nunc Dimmittis (St Johns, Cambridge) Forbes L’Estrange, Joanna: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Kings College Services) Magnificat+score Nunc Dimittis+score Ives, Grayston: Nunc Dimittis (Salisbury Festival Services) Nunc Dimittis (Emmanuel Episcopal Church) Morley: faux bourdon Magnificat Nunc Dimittis (University Choir, Innsbruck) Royse: Appelby Canticles Watch&Play Shephard: Song of Mary YouTube Stanford: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B flat Magnificat(Winchester) Nunc Dimittis (Winchester) Watch&Play Stanford: Evening Canticles in C Magnificat (St Johns, Cambridge) Nunc Dimittis Watch&Play

Masses

Darke: Mass in E (Kyrie)

Thorne: Mass of St Thomas

Anthems

Anon: Kontakion of the Dead – arr. D Hansell
Anon: Hymn to the Trinity (words Rev’d John Venus; music Anon, arr. D Hansell)

Aston, Peter: So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth Laudate Choir

Attwood, Thomas: Teach Me, O Lord Somerville College

Bainton: And I Saw a New Heaven  Kings College, Cambridge

Bennet, Richard Rodney: Out of your Sleep Polyphony

Berkeley, Lennox: I Sing of a Maiden Polyhymnia Consort

Bevan: There’s a wideness in God’s mercy Jesus, Cambridge

Britten: Hymn to the Virgin Voces8

A New Year Carol Cambridge Singers

Jubilate Deo +score

Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus The Sixteen

Call to Worship The Sixteen

Teach O Lord The Way of Thy Statutes Clare College

Bruckner: Locus Iste Voces8

Chilcott, Bob: God so loved the world BYU Singers

Be Thou My Vision Trinity College, Melbourne

Elgar, E: Ave Verum Corpus St John’s, Cambridge

Darke: In the Bleak Mid-winter St John’s, Cambridge

Farrant: Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy’s Sake Cambridge Singers +score

Hide Not Thy Face Westminster Abbey Watch & Play

Faure, G: Cantique de Jean Racine King’s College, Cambridge
Forbes L’Estrange, Joanna: The Mountains Shall Speak RSCM

Gibbons, O: Almighty and Everlasting God St John’s, Cambridge Watch&Play

Drop, Drop Slow Tears Cambridge Chorale Watch&Play

This Is the record of John King’s College, Cambridge Watch&Play

Gjeilo, Ola: Ubi Caritas CWU Chamber Choir Plainsong & translation

Goodall, H: The Lord’s My Shepherd Thamesis Chamber Choir 

Goss: If We Believe That Jesus Died St Andrews Choir Watch&Play

Greene, Maurice: Thou Visiteth the Earth New College, Oxford Watch&Play

Handel, GF: Zadok the Priest Academy of Ancient Music

Hansell, David: Fanfare For All Saints

Praised Be the God of Love

Where Is This Stupendous Stranger

The Oxen

Thou O God Art Praised in Zion

Harris, WH: Faire Is the Heaven King’s College, Cambridge

Come Down. O Love Divine Norwich Cathedral

Holy is the True Light Cambridge Singers

Howells, Herbert: Like as the Hart Desireth the Water-brooks +score

Come Down, O Love Divine The Sixteen +score
Ireland, John: Greater Love Hath No Man Clare College, Cambridge
Watch&Play

Ives, Grayston: Listen, Sweet Dove St Ninian’s, Perth

Joubert, John: O Lord, the Maker of all Things Somerville College, Oxford

There is no Rose King’s College, Cambridge

Lauridsen, Morten: O Nata Lux Voces8

Lloyd-Weber: Andrew Lovingly Remembered D-day

Lloyd, Richard: The Call Bishop Wandsworth School Watch&Play

Loosemore, Henry/Gibbons, Orlando: O Lord, Increase Our Faith Downing College, Cambridge

Matthias,William: Sir Christemas Christ Church, Victoria

Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium Kosovov Philharmonic Choir

Mendelssohn, Felix: Above All Praise and Majesty St Alban’s Cathedral Watch&Play

Then Shall a Start From Jacob Come Forth Westminster Choir College Watch&Play

Moore: What Wondrous Love

Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus Vienna Boys Choir +score

Musson: Fill Us With Love

Ouseley: From the Rising of the Sun Anglica Episcopal, Stockholm Watch&Play

O Saviour of the World Magdalen College

Purcell,H: Thou Knowest, Lord The Sixteen Watch&Play

Ravenscroft, Thomas: Remember, O Thou Man The Sixteen

Redford: Rejoice in the Lord Alway King Solomon Singers

Rutter, John: For the Beauty of the Earth Cambridge Singers

Gaelic Blessing Cambridge Singers

I Will Sing with the Spirit Cambridge Singers

Love Came Down at Christmas Cambridge Singers

Of a Rose, a Lovely Rose Cambridge Singers

Sands: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast

Schubert: Holy, Holy, Holy (from German Mass) Univ. of Pikeville Watch&Play

Schutz, Heinrich: We Sing of the Birth

Stainer: God So Loved the World Clare College, Cambridge Watch&Play

Shepherd: A New Commandment Ecclesium Choir

Stanford, CV: O, For a Closer Walk with Thee Manchester Chorale + score

Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem New College, Oxford +score

Stopford, Philip: For the Beauty of the Earth Truro Cathedral +score

Taize: Ubi Caritas Catholique de France

Tallis, Thomas: If You Love Me King’s Singers

O Nata Lux Tallis Scholars Watch&Play

Verily, Verily I Say unto You Tallis Scholars Watch&Play

Tchaikowsky: Holy, Holy, Holy Church of the Nativity, Lagos Watch&Play

Townend: How Deep Is the Father’s Love for Us Watch&Play

Tye: Laudate Nomen Domini Voices of Ascension Watch&Play

O Come Ye Servants Westmont College

Vaughan Williams, R: O Clap Your Hands Gloucester Cathedral

Let All the World in Every Corner Sing King’s College, Cambridge

O, Taste and See Cambridge Singers

The Call Apollo 5

Walford Davies: Requiem Aeternam (1916) Pembroke College
Warlock, Peter: Adam Lay Y’bounden St John’s, Cambridge
Wesley, SS: Ascribe Unto the Lord Ely Cathedral Watch&Play

Thou Will Keep Him In Perfect Peace Consordia Singers Watch&Play

Wash Me Throughly Manchester Cathedral +score

Wood: This Joyful Eastertide King’s College Cambridge

Psalms

How to sing Anglican Psalms Wikipedia

Anglican Chant Written-out example

Archer, Malcolm: Advent Wreath Prayer

Responses

Bramma: Oreces and Responses

Sheppard: Pepenbury Responses

Hymns

New English Hymnal Wikipedia

How Shall I Sing That Majesty (w/ descant)

Gibdon arr. Ogden: Touch the Earth Lightly

Arkwright/Harris: O Valiant Hearts/The Supreme Sacrifice

Christmas Carols

Adams: O, Holy Night BYU Singers

Anon: The Lord at First Did Adam Make

Coventry Carol

Gaudete

Anon arr. Holst: Personnent Hodie

Chilcott, Bob: Silent Night The Oxford Choir

Cornelius, P: The Three Kings Consortium +score

Darke: In the Bleak Mid-winter St Salvators Watch&Play

Nelson, Robin: Out of your Sleep Marlborough College

Owens, Matthew: The Holly and the Ivy The Oxford Choir

Rudolf: Veiled in Darkness Christ Church, Sydney

Stopford, Philip: Lula, Lula, Lullay Voces8

Trad: Past Three O’clock

Tchaikowsky: A Crown of Roses All Saints, Northampton

Vaughan Williams, R: This is the Truth Sent from Above King’s Singers

Weddings

Lennon & McCartney: All You Need Is Love arr. Alan Billingsley

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