Over the 50 years of our work, Stour Singers have established a repertory that holds in balance the power of the traditional choral highlights – the great works of Haydn, Handel, Bach and Mozart – and the innovation of the music that surrounded, inspired and was influenced by them. So we have sung Haydn’s Creation (1982, 1993, 2018), and our performances have included Handel’s Messiah (1993, 1997, 2005, 2011), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (1986, 2017), and the Mozart Requiem (1986, 1998, 2008).
Alongside these favourites, audiences have been intrigued to discover a cantata by Kuhnau (Uns ist ein Kind geboren, December 2017) long thought to be by Bach; a delightful piece from Michael Haydn, Joseph’s less well-known brother (Run, ye shepherds, Christmas 2014); and Fauré’s Requiem (2005, 2018) which neither commemorated a death nor followed the structure of the traditional mass for the dead.
Singers have been delighted to discover the less familiar patterns of music to be found in twentieth century works: Rutter’s Magnificat (2018), Vaughan Williams’ Five mystical songs (2008, 2016), Britten’s Ceremony of Carols (2013), Ramirez’ Navidad Nuestra (1997, 2007). Equally enjoyable has been the music from the enormous range composed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by figures such as Vivaldi (Gloria in 1980 and 2013), Monteverdi (Beatus Vir in 2019), and Charpentier (Filius Prodigus in 2016).
Since 2000, we have performed the following composers’ works:
| Composer | Work | Date(s) Performed |
| Bach, Carl, Philipp Emanuel | Magnificat in D | 2009 |
| Bach, Johann Christian | Magnificat in D | 2009 |
| Bach, Johann Sebastian | Cantata No. 191, Gloria Christmas Oratorio | Dec 2017 Dec 2012, Dec 2015 |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van | Mass in C | May 2015 |
| Brahms, Johannes | German Requiem | May 2014, May 2025 |
| Britten, Benjamin | A Ceremony of Carols St. Nicholas | Dec 2014 2010 |
| Buxtehude, Dieterich | Das neugeborene Kindelein | Dec 2014 |
| Charpentier, Marc-Antoine | Filius prodigus Messe de Minuit | May 2016 2006 |
| Cherubini, Luigi | Requiem in C Minor | 2007 |
| Dvorák, Antonín | Mass in D | May 2013, May 2022 |
| Fauré, Gabriel | Requiem Cantique de Jean Racine | May 2018 2006 |
| Handel, George Frideric | Messiah Excerpts from Messiah Foundling Hospital Anthem Saul Let God Arise Laudate pueri Dominum | 2005, Dec 2011, May 2023 Dec 2016, Dec 2024 May 2019 May 2017 May 2012 2010 |
| Haydn, Joseph | The Creation Nelson Mass Kleine Orgelmesse Creation Mass Te Deum Mariazeller Mass Nikolai Mass | Dec 2018 May 2016, May 2024 Dec 2014 May 2012 2006May 2012 2008 Dec 2022 |
| Haydn, Michael | Run ye shepherds | Dec 2014 |
| Hummel, Johann Nepomuk | Mass in B flat | 2007 |
| Kuhnau, Johann | Uns ist ein Kind geboren | Dec 2017 |
| Mendelssohn, Felix | Three Motets op. 69 Lauda Sion Elijah | May 2016 2006, May 2015 May 2011 |
| Monteverdi, Claudio | Beatus Vir | May 2019 |
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Laudate Dominum Dixit Regina Coeli K.108 Requiem (Sussmayr) Mass K.317 (Coronation) Vesper psalms from K339 Ave Verum Corpus | Dec 2014, May 2024 May 2024 2009 2008 2006 May 2022 Dec 2023, May 2025 |
| Purcell, Henry | Te Deum Jubilate | May 2024 |
| Ramirez, Ariel | Navidad nuestra | 2007 |
| Rutter, John | Magnificat | May 2018 |
| Telemann, Georg Philip | Allein Gott in die Höh sei Ehre Magnificat | Dec 2016 Dec 2022 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Five mystical songs Fantasia on Christmas Carols | 2008, Dec 2016, Dec 2023 2008, Dec 2023 |
| Vivaldi, Antonio | Dixit Dominus (RV 594) Gloria (RV 589) Beatus Vir (RV 597) Magnificat | May 2019 May 2013 2010, Dec 2024 Dec 2024 |