Repertoire
The Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir offers a wide range of repertoire, both sacred and secular.
The pieces listed below illustrate the breadth of the current repertoire of the Concert Division.
Works marked with * were composed for the Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir.
Choral Compositions a Capella
SACRED
Jakob Arcadelt: Ave Maria
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Laudatepueri, Beatiomnes, Denn er hat seinen Engel befohlen
Johannes Brahms: Regina coeli, Ave Maria
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Cherubic Hymn, Legend
Petr Eben: De angelis, De Spiritu Sancto
Gustav Fauré: Ave verum, Maria, mater gratiae
Jacob Handl Gallus: Puericoncinite, Haecdies
Hans Leo Hassler: Cantate Domino
Gustav Holst: Ave Maria
Zoltán Kodály: Ave Maria, Psalm 150
Ivan Kurz: Precatio (Maria, mater nostra)
Zdeněk Lukáš: Missa brevis, Pater noster
Jan Málek: Cantica Davidis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus, Laudate Dominum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Adoramuste, Christe, Ave Maria, Pueri Haebreorum
Arvo Pärt: Bogoroditse, devo, raduis’ sa, ZweiBeter, Peace upon you, Jerusalem
Francis Poulenc: Ave verum
Miroslav Raichl: Three Old Czech Sacred Cantilenas
Camille Saint-Saëns: Ave verum corpus
Franz Schubert: Salve Regina, Ave Maria, Psalm XXIII
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria, Duo Seraphim, Una hora
Antonio Vivaldi: Laetatus sum
Jan Campanus Vodňanský: Rorando coeli
SECULAR
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Legend, Żal (Bězpory da bez vremeni)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Forest Spring, Little Song
Ilja Hurník: Silesian Songs, Little Spring (from the cycle Water, Water Spirit)
Pekka Kostiainen: Jacob’s Sons
Orlando di Lasso: Echo
Zdeněk Lukáš: Little Cows, Wreath
Otmar Mácha: Children’s Choirs, Lašské Halekačky
Bohuslav Martinů: Songs for Children’s Choir, Czech Nursery Rhymes (selection)
Jiří Teml: Grass Songs
Bedřich Smetana: Three-Part Songs, Prayer
Dalibor C. Vačkář: Little Poor Ones
Choral Compositions with Chamber Accompaniment
SACRED
Leonard Bernstein: Gloria tibi
Johannes Brahms: Ave Maria
Benjamin Britten: Missa brevis
Antonín Dvořák: Ave Maria, O sanctissima
Petr Eben: Missa adventus et quadragesimae
Gustav Fauré: Tantum ergo, Messe Basse
Charles Gounod: Messe breve
Jan Hanuš: Magnificat
Slavomír Hořínka: Laudate Dominum* , Domine, non est exaltate*, Ave Maria*
Ivan Kurz: Stabat Mater, Veni, sancte spiritus
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Laudate pueri, Beati omnes
Josef Mysliveček: Salve Regina
Jan Novák: Ave Maria, Gloria
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Francis Poulenc: Litanie à la Vierge Noire
Franz Schubert: Psalm XXIII (Gott ist mein Hirt)
SECULAR
Claude Debussy: Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maisons
Antonín Dvořák: Moravian Duets, op. 32; Largo (arranged by Jaroslav Šaroun), When My Old Mother
Petr Eben: Zelená se snítka
Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Three Choirs, op. 172, Studánka, Little Song
Jiří Gemrot: Humility and Love
Rafael Kubelík: Inventions and Interludes
Ivan Kurz: How Many Angels Can Stand on the Tip of a Needle*
Ivana Loudová: The Little Prince
Zdeněk Lukáš: Otep Myrhy
Otmar Mácha: Hymn; Moravian Folk Songs; Echoes of Silesian Songs
Bohuslav Martinů: Opening of Springs; Primrose; Three Sacred Songs (Three Legends); Carrying Death from the Ballet Špalíček; Songs on One Page, Songs on Two Pages
Josef Mysliveček: Nocturne
Jakub Jan Ryba: A Gift for Diligent Youth (cycle of songs for children’s voices with piano)
Klement Slavický: Children, Joy, Song
Jaroslav Šaroun: Dream of the Vltava (fantasy on motifs from Smetana’s symphonic poem)*
Zdeněk Šesták: Annunciation of Spring, The Sun Was Rising
Jiří Teml: Six Songs from the Spring for girls’ choir and violin
Václav Trojan: Czech Pastorelles, Mixture of Folk Songs
Dalibor C. Vačkář: Children to Adults
Jan Křtitel Vaňhal: Children’s Songs
Composition for Choir and Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Hector Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
Benjamin Britten: War Requiem, King David, Christmas Cantata
Antonín Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Juraj Filas: The Eternal Dream of the Old Oak*
Jan Hanuš: The Czech Year
Arthur Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher
Otakar Jeremiáš: Collection of Folk Songs for Children’s Choir and Orchestra
Jan Klusák: Little Morning Mass
Ivan Kurz: Stabat Mater (for children’s choir and strings), Missa Bohemica
Franz Liszt: Christus, Legend of Saint Elizabeth
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 and No. 8
Bohuslav Martinů: Kytice, Greek Passion
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Children’s Mass for sopranos, altos, and string orchestra
Jiří Teml: Psalm 136 (for children’s choir and strings)*
Jan Křtitel Vaňhal: Stabat Mater
Children´s Operas and Musical Works
Otmar Mácha: Animals and Robbers
Jiří Teml: The Emperor’s New Clothes;* Puss in Boots; The Devil and Kates or Hell in Hell*
Václav Trojan: Fireflies, Merry-Go-Round
Music and Dance
Otmar Mácha: O Give Us, Lord, a Joyful Evening*
The Celebrations of Spring*
The Calling of the Sun*
Christmas Repertoire
Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols
Jaromír Doubrava: Shepherd’s Midnight (for children’s choir and oboe)
Petr Eben: Carol Singers from Těšín
Jan F. Fisher: A Child Is Born
Ivan Kurz: Christmas Songs and Carols
Adam Michna of Otradovice: Christmas Music
Jaroslav Pelikán: Pastorela
Jakub Jan Ryba: Czech Christmas Mass, Pastorelles
Jan Seidel: Bethlehem Songs (for children’s choir and wind quintet)
Luboš Sluka: Waiting for Baby Jesus (for children’s choir, clarinet, and organ)
Jiří Teml: Gloria in excelsis Deo (cycle of carols), Carol Singers, The Scripture Is Fulfilled (cycle of carols), Holy Night, A Most Glorious Day Has Come to Us
Evžen Zámečník: Silent Night
