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1. Requiem, Op. 9

331 Maurice Duruflé Mass / Requiem 1947 Play

2. All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Op. 37

307 Sergei Rachmaninoff Chant 1915 Play

16 Samuel Barber Chant 1967 Play

16 György Ligeti Mass / Requiem 1965 Play

10 György Ligeti Chant 1966 Play

6. War Requiem, Op. 66

9 Benjamin Britten Mass / Requiem 1962 Play

7. Choir Concerto

8 Alfred Schnittke Chant 1985 Play

6 Steve Reich Choral orchestral 1981 Play

9. Glagolitic Mass

6 Leoš Janáček Mass / Requiem 1926 Play

10. The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38

5 Edward Elgar Choral orchestral 1900 Play

5 Alfred Schnittke Mass / Requiem 1975 Play

12. The Kingdom, Op. 51

5 Edward Elgar Choral orchestral 1906 Play

13. Miserere, Op. 44

4 Henryk Górecki Chant 1981 Play

14. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28

3 Benjamin Britten Choral orchestral 1942 Play

15. Chichester Psalms

3 Leonard Bernstein Choral orchestral 1965 Play

16. Mass in G Minor

3 Ralph Vaughan Williams Mass / Requiem 1921 Play

17. Figure Humaine, FP 120

3 Francis Poulenc Chant 1943 Play

18. Four Psalms, Op. 74

3 Edvard Grieg Chant 1906 Play

19. Requiem Canticles

3 Igor Stravinsky Choral orchestral 1966 Play

20. Stabat Mater, FP 148

2 Francis Poulenc Choral orchestral 1950 Play

2 Igor Stravinsky Mass / Requiem 1948 Play

22. Gloria, FP 177

2 Francis Poulenc Choral orchestral Play

2 Arvo Pärt Choral orchestral 1992 Play

2 John Stainer Choral orchestral Play

25. Song for Athene

1 John Tavener Chant 1993 Play

26. Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31

1 Sergei Rachmaninoff Chant 1910 Play

1 Arvo Pärt Choral orchestral 1984 Play

28. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Gilgameš), H. 351

1 Bohuslav Martinů Choral orchestral 1955 Play

29. La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ

1 Olivier Messiaen Choral orchestral 1969 Play

30. Kanon Pokajanen

1 Arvo Pärt Chant 1997 Play

1 Igor Stravinsky Choral orchestral 1958 Play

1 Ralph Vaughan Williams Choral orchestral 1925 Play

33. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Op. 81

1 Charles Villiers Stanford Choral orchestral 1902 Play

34. The Hymn of Jesus, Op. 37

1 Gustav Holst Choral orchestral 1917 Play

1 Charles Ives Choral orchestral 1924 Play

36. Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël, FP 152

1 Francis Poulenc Chant 1952 Play

37. Berliner Messe

1 Arvo Pärt Mass / Requiem 1990 Play

38. St Luke Passion

1 Krzysztof Penderecki Choral orchestral 1966 Play

39. In Terra Pax, Op. 39

1 Gerald Finzi Choral orchestral 1954 Play

40. Field Mass (Polní mše), H. 279

1 Bohuslav Martinů Choral orchestral 1939 Play

41. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

1 Paul Hindemith Choral orchestral 1946 Play

1 Iannis Xenakis Chant 1967 Play

0 Krzysztof Penderecki Choral orchestral 1971 Play

44. Belshazzar's Feast

0 William Walton Choral orchestral 1931 Play

0 Karlheinz Stockhausen Chant 1968 Play

46. The Apostles, Op. 49

0 Edward Elgar Choral orchestral 1903 Play

47. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29

0 Gerald Finzi Choral orchestral 1950 Play

48. Dona Nobis Pacem

0 Ralph Vaughan Williams Choral orchestral 1936 Play

49. Toward the Unknown Region

0 Ralph Vaughan Williams Choral orchestral 1906 Play

50. Stabat Mater

0 Karol Szymanowski Choral orchestral 1926 Play