The famous Bach cantata, 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland', is here performed by the Netherlands Bach Society.

Among the "O" Antiphons, one of the most beautiful is "O Root of Jesse". Healey Willan's setting is evocative and mysterious.

Best know for his opera "Dialogues des Carmélites," Frances Poulenc wrote beautiful choral music for the Church. His "Ave verum" is a gem.

The motet, Rorate coeli, Op. 176: No. 7, was composed by Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger as a part of his nine Advent motets.

Guerrero’s music is considered eminently vocal, strongly Spanish in character, and evocative of a vivid and serene spirituality.

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Busto taught himself music, but discovered choral music later. His music stirs the soul.

Hermannus Contractus (1013–54) is believed to have composed both the "Alma Redemptoris Mater" in the 11th century.

This well-known carol (Veni, veni, Emmanuel) takes us back over 1,200 years to monastic life in the 8th- or 9th-century.

This unique version of De Profundis ("From the depths I cry") was commissioned by the Stellenbosch University Choir (South Africa).

This beautiful rendition of the Gregorian De profundis is sung by the Nova Schola Gregoriana and conducted by Alberto Turco.

Michel Richard Delalande was organist and composer to King Louis IV. His "De profundis" is a stirring setting of Psalm 130 (129).

This musical masterpiece brings forth the depth of human suffering, especially as experienced by those who died in the Holocaust.

Samuel Barber's timeless Adagio for Strings, Op. 11, is here performed at the Summer Night Concert in 2019.

Henry Purcell's Funeral Sentences was performed at the funeral of Queen Mary II in 1695.

Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500 – 1553) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. The Missa pro Defunctis is thought to be his last work.

In Paradisum was composed in 2020 to honor the victims of the coronavirus and the thousands of families left behind.

The Mozart Requiem is one of the gems of choral music. Hear a stirring rendition of the Dies Irae movement directed by Fr. Scott A. Haynes.

This performance of Duruflé’s beautiful setting is dedicated to Nova Scotians and all Canadians who have lost their lives to Covid.

When Camille Saint-Saëns heard this music, he told Fauré: “Just as Mozart’s is the only ‘Ave verum corpus’, this is the only ‘Pie Jesu.’”

The Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist whom Verdi admired.