Encores for Choirs 2

30 crowd-pleasing concert pieces

Compiled by Peter Gritton


Oxford University Press, 2004



  1. A modern major-general  Arthur Sullivan arr. Peter Gritton
  2. Auld lang syne  Scottish traditional arr. Joanna Forbes
  3. Bring us in good ale  Gustav Holst
  4. Buffalo gals  American traditional arr. Bob Chilcott
  5. Calme des nuits  Camille Saint-Saëns
  6. Chick, chick, chicken!  Holt, McGhee and King arr. Peter Gritton
  7. Counting up my toes  David Cullen
  8. Country gardens  English traditional arr. Peter Gritton
  9. Dashing away with the smoothing iron  English traditional arr. John Rutter
  10. Deconstructing Johann  Daryl Runswick
  11. Dry bones  Spiritual arr. Peter Gritton
  12. El hambo  Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
  13. Ev’ry time I feel the spirit  Spiritual arr. Bob Chilcott
  14. Good hope  Peter Gritton
  15. Ill wind  Flanders and Swann after Mozart arr. Peter Gritton
  16. It was a lover and his lass  John Rutter
  17. Jargon  William Billings
  18. Mission: Impossible  Lalo Schifrin arr. Mark Williams
  19. Nachtlied  Max Reger
  20. Orpheus in the underground  Jacques Offenbach arr. Cantabile
  21. Parting friends  North American traditional arr. John G. McCurry
  22. Shenandoah  American traditional arr. James Erb
  23. Stranger in paradise  Wright and Forrest after Borodin arr. Peter Gritton
  24. Take if from figure ‘O’  W.A. Mozart arr. Ben Parry
  25. The long day closes  Arthur Sullivan
  26. The tide rises, the tide falls  Howard Skempton
  27. Three-minute Messiah  Peter Gritton
  28. ‘Un’-Popular song  William Walton arr. Roderick Williams
  29. Vocalise  Sergei Rachmaninov arr. Peter Gritton
  30. Wiegenlied  Johannes Brahms arr. Robin Gritton