Audition Repertoire for 2025-26

Should you be successful in receiving an audition, please choose one piece from the set list below*, to sing alongside a second contrasting piece of your own choosing:

You can download a PDF version of your chosen set piece to prepare from below by clicking on the name of your selected piece. NB, these will be the editions that the accompanist on the day will be playing from. If you have any problems at all downloading these or if you have any further questions about repertoire selection, please don’t hesitate to contact Jess, the Genesis Sixteen Manager, on jess@thesixteen.com

* If you have auditioned for us before, you are warmly encouraged to pick a new piece from the prescribed set piece list, one different to what you may have performed in previous years – this is a great exercise to stretch and challenge yourself, but by no means compulsory.

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All voices – any voice type can choose this as their set piece

Campion – Never weather beaten sail [solo version – G major]

Soprano

J.S. Bach – Quia respexit (Magnificat) [B minor]
G.F. Handel – O had I jubal’s lyre (Joshua) [A major]
G.F. Handel – Piangero sorte mia (Giulio Cesare) [E major]
G.F. Handel – Tecum principium (Dixit dominus) [C minor]
Purcell – O lead me to some peaceful gloom (Bonvuca) [C minor]

Alto

J.S. Bach – Agnus Dei (B MInor Mass) [G minor]
J.S. Bach – Esurientes implevit bonis (Magnificat) [E major]
G.F. Handel – Iris, hence away (Semele) [F minor]
G.F. Handel – Virgam virtutis (Dixit Dominus) [Bb major]
Purcell – Strike the Viol (Come ye sons of art) [D minor]

Tenor

G.F. Handel – Love sounds the alarm (Acis & Galatea) [C major]
G.F. Handel – Waft her angels (Jeptha) [G major]
Mendelssohn – If with all your hearts (Elijah) [Eb major]
Purcell – I’ll sail upon the dogstar [Bb major]
Purcell – See, see my many coloured fields (The Fairy Queen) [E minor]

Bass

J.S. Bach – Et in spiritus sanctum (B Minor Mass) [A major]
G.F. Handel – Arm, arm ye brave (Judas Maccabaeus) [C major]
G.F. Handel – Honour and arms [1st section only] (Samson) [Bb major]
G.F. Handel – Vouchsafe (Dettingen Te Deum) [B minor]
Purcell – Arise, ye subterranean winds (The Tempest) [C major]