Our Repertoire
Since its formation in 1983 the Brisbane Chorale has performed a wide range of choral works, across many styles. This list presents the more significant of those works. The many smaller pieces it has performed such as songs, carols, opera choruses and small choral works are not included.
The list is grouped into the following categories:
Masses / Requiems / Sacred Oratorios & Large Scale Cantatas / Other Sacred Works / Choral Symphonies / Other Secular Works
Past concerts list
Download a complete list of the Chorale’s past concerts , with details of dates, works performed, performers, and venues.
Masses
Composer Work When performed Bach Mass in B minor 1985 Bach Mass in G minor 1994 Beethoven Mass in C 2008 Beethoven Missa solemnis in D 2000 Bernstein Mass 1986 Bruckner Mass in E minor 1988 Dvorák Mass in D 1993, 2015 Haydn Nelson Mass 1989, 1992, 1999 Haydn Mass in tempore belli (Mass in Time of War) 1992, 1993, 2009 Jenkins The Armed man: A Mass for Peace 2006, 2013 Jongen Mass op 130 2003 Liszt Missa Choralis 2003 Mozart Great Mass in C minor 1990, 2011 Mozart Coronation Mass 1995 Puccini Messa di Gloria 1984 Rossini Petite messe solennelle 2006 Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor 1988
Requiems
Composer Work When performed Berlioz Grande messe des morts 1986, 1996, 2004 Bottesini Messa da Requiem 2012 Brahms A German Requiem 1989, 1997, 2011, 2014, 2020 Britten War Requiem 1988, 1994, 2013 Cherubini Requiem Mass in C minor 1992 Duruflé Requiem 1996, 1999, 2016 Fauré Requiem 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2004, 2011, 2016 Mozart Requiem 1987, 1991, 1995, 2001, 2006, 2010 Rutter Requiem 2003, 2010 Verdi Requiem 1984, 1987, 2009, 2009, 2013, 2019
Sacred Oratorios and Large Scale Cantatas
Composer Work When performed Bach St John Passion 1989, 1995, 1998 Bach St Matthew Passion 1987, 1996 Carissimi Jepthe 1990 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius 1983, 2013, 2014 Goldenthal Fire Water Paper: a Vietnam Oratorio 1997 Handel Israel in Egypt 1985, 2019 Handel Messiah 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 Handel Messiah from scratch 1984, 1985, 1992, 1994 Haydn The Creation 1986, 1998 Mendelssohn Christus 2009 Mendelssohn Elijah 1987, 2007 Mendelssohn St Paul 2008 Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio 2002 Walton Belshazzar’s Feast 1984, 1991, 2005, 2010, 2017
Other Sacred Works
Composer Work When performed Bach Cantata No 140, ‘Wachet Auf’ 1994 Bach Magnificat 1990 Barber Agnus Dei 1990, 2000 Berlioz Te Deum 1993, 2016 Bernstein Chichester Psalms 1984, 1999, 2018 Brahms Fest- und Gedenksprüche 2010, 2015 Brahms Geistliches Lied 1990, 2015 Britten Festival Te Deum 2001 Bruckner Ecce Sacerdos 2004, 2015 Bruckner Locus Iste 2001, 2004, 2004, 2015, 2015 Bruckner Os Justi 2004, 2004, 2015 Bruckner Te Deum 1992 Chilcott Jubilate 2001 Górecki Totus Tuus 1999, 2003, 2009 Handel Zadok the Priest 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1995, 2004 Haydn Te Deum 1990 Holst Nunc Dimittis 2001 Kodály Psalmus Hungaricus 1986 Lauridsen Ave Maria 2000, 2003 Lauridsen Lux Aeterna 2002 Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 1990 Mozart Ave Verum Corpus 1994, 1997, 2001 Poulenc Gloria 1991, 1997, 1998, 2018 Purcell Jubilate Deo 1994 Purcell Te Deum 1994 Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil (‘The Vespers’) 1998, 2004, 2014 Rutter Gloria 1988, 1996, 2019 Szymanowski Stabat Mater 1991 Taverner The Veil of the Temple 2009 Thompson The Peaceable Kingdom 2000 Tippett Five Spirituals from A Child of our Time 2000 Vaughan Williams Antiphon 2003, 2010 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols 1988, 1990 Verdi Ave Maria 2003 Verdi Four Sacred Pieces 1989 Vivaldi Gloria 1986, 1989 Whitacre Lux Arumque 2009
Choral Symphonies
Composer Work When performed Beethoven Symphony No 9, ‘Choral’ 1983, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2005, 2010 Bracanin Symphony No 2 1995, 1997 (recording) Kats-Chernin Symphonia Eluvium (Symphony of the Floods) 2011 Mahler Symphony No 2, ‘Resurrection’ 1987, 1994, 1999, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015 Mahler Symphony No 3 2008 Mahler Symphony No 8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ 1988, 1995, 2018 Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony 2007, 2012
Other Secular Works
Composer Work When performed Beethoven Choral Fantasy 1985, 1989 Boito Prologue – Mephistophele 1985 Brahms Nänie 2000 Combe Snugglepot and Cuddlepie 1994 Delius Appalachia 1984 Holst The Planets 1989, 1993 Kancheli Styx 2007 Mahler Das klagende Lied (Song of Lamentation) 2010 Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1995, 1999 Orff Carmina Burana 1983, 1989, 1992, 2002, 2007 Orff Catulli Carmina 2007 Orlovich Child Sightings 2002 Prokofieff Alexander Nevsky 1990, 1991 Rachmaninov The Bells 2016 Ravel Daphnis and Chloe 1999 Shore Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring film soundtrack 2012 Sibelius Finlandia 1987, 1992, 2002 Tavener Song for Athene 2001, 2009 Tim Rice and the ABBA team Chess 1993 Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs 1999 Vaughan Williams The Pilgrim’s Progress (Heavenly chorus) 2002