Repertoire Performed - By Category

MASTERWORKS    

Below is a sampling of major works performed regularly throughout The Chorale’s 70 year history:


J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorio, St. John’s Passion, St. Matthew’s Passion, Magnificat, and Mass in B Minor

Ludwig van Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Choral Fantasy, Mass in C

Hector Berlioz Requiem, Te Deum

Leonard Bernstein Mass, Chichester Psalms

Johannes Brahms Alto Rhapsody, A German Requiem

Benjamin Britten War Requiem

Luigi Cherubini Requiem in C Minor

Antonín Dvořák Stabat Mater

Sir Edward Elgar The Dream of Gerontius

Gabriel Fauré Requiem

George Frideric Handel The Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Judas Maccabeus

Franz Joseph Haydn Creation, The Seasons

Leoš Janáček Glagolitic Mass

Zoltán Kodály Psalmus hungaricus

Felix Mendelssohn Elijah

W.A. Mozart Mass in C Minor, Requiem

Carl Orff Carmina Burana

Sergei Rachmaninoff The Bells

Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Les Noces

Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 1 A Sea Symphony

Giuseppe Verdi Requiem

Sir William Walton Belshazzar's Feast

OPERAS-IN-CONCERT

1942: Boris Godunov, Modest Mussorgsky

1982: Montezuma, Roger Sessions**

1984:  Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin

1984:  Dmitri, Anton Dvořák*

1985:  Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven

1987:  La fiamma, Ottorino Respighi**

1989:  Friedenstag, Richard Strauss**

1997:  Fierrabras, Franz Schubert**

1998:  Nabucco, Giuseppe Verdi

1999:  Giovanna d’Arco, Giuseppe Verdi

2000:  La Gioconda, Amilcare Ponchielli

2001:  Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi

2002:  Oberon, Carl Maria von Weber

2003:  La forza del destino, Giuseppe Verdi

2004:  Un ballo in maschera, Giuseppe Verdi

2005:  Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven

2006:  Le Villi and Act III of Turandot with ending by Luciano Berio**, Giacomo Puccini

2007: The Maid of Orleans, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

2008: Jupiter in Argos, George Frideric Handel *

2009: Alceste, Christoph Gluck

2010: The Grapes of Wrath, Ricky Ian Gordon

SPECIAL EVENT CONCERTS, COLLABORATIONS

2003: An All-American Evening, featuring works by Norman Dello Joio, Virgil Thomson,
William Bolcom, Deborah Mason, Ricky Ian Gordon and Bright Sheng.

2004:  An Evening of Kurt Weill (Lost in the Stars, Marie Galante, Love Life, Happy End)

2004:  Music and The Movies (A Lion in Winter, John Barry and Ivan the Terrible, Sergei Prokofiev)

2005:  An Evening of American Operetta (Victor Herbert, Rudolph Friml, Sigmund Romberg)

2005:  Verdi & Shakespeare (Othello, Macbeth, Falstaff)

2006:  Treemonisha, Scott Joplin

2007: The Juniper Tree, Philip Glass and Robert Moran

2007: Not the Messiah, Eric Idle and John du Prez (Caramoor Music Festival presentation) *

2008: A White House Cantata, Bernstein and Lerner **

2009: The Firebrand of Florence, Kurt Weill

2009: The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of The Ring: Howard Shore’s score performed live to the film in HD at Radio City Music Hall (Presented by CAMI Music)

2011: Knickerbocker Holiday, Kurt Weill

2011: We Remember Them: Music from the Camps and Ghettos at Central Synagogue

2011: Something Wonderful: An Evening of Broadway with Deborah Voigt

 

  *  U.S. Premiere

**  N.Y. Premiere