New works

Many new works were specially written for Leeds Festival Chorus or performed in Leeds for the first time.  Most of these were conducted by the composer including St Ludmilla (Dvorák) and Caractacus (Elgar).  Belshazzar's Feast, however, was conducted by Malcolm Sargent.
Premières performed by Leeds Festival Chorus:
YearWorkComposer
1858 The May Queen William Sterndale Bennett
1877 Joseph George Macfarren
1880 The Martyr of Antioch
The Building of the Ship
Arthur Sullivan
John F Barnett
1883 King David
Elegy
97th Psalm
George Macfarren
Alfred Cellier
Joseph Barnby
1886 The Golden Legend
The Story of Sayid
The Revenge
St Ludmilla
Arthur Sullivan
Alexander C Mackenzie
Charles Villiers Stanford
Antonin Dvorák
1889 St Cecilia's Day
The Sword of Argantyr
The Voyage of Maeldune
The Sacrifice of Freia
Hubert H Parry
Frederick Corder
Charles Villiers Stanford
William Creser
1895 Invocation to Music
The Forsaken Maiden
Hubert H Parry
Arthur Somervell
1898 Te Deum
Caractacus
Ode to the Passions
Ode "A Song of Redemption"
Ode "Music"
Charles Villiers Stanford
Edward Elgar
Frederic Hymen Cowen
Alan Gray
Otto Goldschmidt
1901 The Blind Girl of Castel Cuillé Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
1904 Queen Mab
Five Songs of the Sea
The Witch's Daughter
Everyman
A Ballad of Dundee
Josef Holbrooke
Charles Villiers Stanford
Alexander C Mackenzie
Walford Davies
Charles Wood
1907 Stabat Mater
Intimations of Immortality
In Springtime
Toward the Unknown Region
Two Folk Songs
Sea Wanderers
Charles Villiers Stanford
Arthur Somervell
(Alfred) Herbert Brewer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Rutland Boughton
Granville Bantock
1910 A Sea Symphony
Songs of the Fleet
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Charles Villiers Stanford
1913 On a May Morning
The Mystic Trumpeter
Basil Harwood
Hamilton Harty
1922 Ode to Death Gustav Holst
1925 First Choral Symphony
The Eagle
Gustav Holst
Albert Coates
1931 Pervigilium Veneris
The Seasons
Belshazzar's Feast
Frederic Austin
Eric Fogg
William Walton
1934 La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Blacksmiths
Cyril Scott
George Dyson
1937 In Honour of the City of London
Jonah
William Walton
Lennox Berkeley
1953 Choral Scene Phyllis Tate
1958 The Vision of Judgement Peter Racine Fricker
1961 Sutter's Gold Alexander Goehr
1967 Epithalamion Richard Rodney Bennett
1970 Lumina David Blake
1983 Choral Symphony Edward Cowie
1989 The Red Macula Michael Berkeley
1993 A Song of Liberty Dmitri Smirnov
2000 The Fall of Jerusalem Dominic Muldowney
2004 Christus Markus Stockhausen
2005 Canticum Cantoricum Peter Maxwell Davies
2007 The Bells of London Town Geoffrey Kinder
2008 A Shakespeare Requiem Judith Bingham

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