The choir has sung an enormously wide range of works, covering over 600 years of repertoire. Here are some of the highlights of the last 10 years:
Anon - Te Deum from the 'Gyffard' partbooks
Allegri – Miserere mei
Bach – B-minor Mass; Magnificat; St John Passion; Christmas Oratorio (parts I, II & III); Cantata 106; Cantata 4; Jesu, meine Freude; Singet dem Herren; Lobet den Herren
Britten - Saint Nicolas; Rejoice in the Lamb; Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Bruckner - Motets
Byrd – Motets for All Saints’ Day; Mass for Five Voices
Charpentier – Messe de Minuit; Messe des Morts; Litanies
Copland - In the beginning
Franck - Psalm 150
Gibbons - Verse anthems
Guerrero – Motets
Handel – Four Coronation Anthems
Haydn - Missa Sancti Nicolai; Paukenmesse; 'Nelson' Mass
Howells – Requiem; Take him, earth, for cherishing
Josquin - Motets
Lambert - The Rio Grande
Leighton - The beauty of holiness
Le Jeune – Motets
Martin – Mass for double choir
Orff - Carmina burana
Parry - I was glad
Pärt – The Beatitudes
Poulenc – Litanies à la Vierge Noire; Mass in G
Purcell - Funeral music
Rachmaninoff - All-Night Vigil ('Vespers'), Opus 37
Rheinberger - Mass in E flat for double choir
Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle
Sheppard - Second Evening Service
Stanford - Three motets; Magnificat for double choir
Strauss - Der Abend
Tallis - Spem in alium; motets from Cantiones sacrae
Tavener - Magnificat 'Collegium Regale'
Vaughan Williams - Flos campi; Serenade to Music
Victoria - Missa pro victoria; Motets
Widor - Mass for two choirs and two organs
In May 2008 the choir also gave the first performance of a new work by Timothy Craig Harrison: The Risen Christ for choir and percussion, based on a series of sculptures by Fenwick Lawson, and performed in the the context of an exhibition of the sculptures in St Cuthbert's Chapel, Ushaw College, as part of the College's bicentenary celebrations.