The choir’s hallmark has always been its breadth of repertoire, encompassing a wide range of music from the 16th century to the present day, with music by living composers featuring in programmes during most seasons. Often there is a thread linking a series of concerts, encouraging regular audience attendance. The highly successful and critically-praised Silver Jubilee season, for example, concentrated on 20th century British music, and was recognised by an Enterprise Award from the Performing Rights Society - one of only three such awards in Scotland.
In the 2002/2003 season, the winter concert (with strings and organ) comprised music by Blow, Purcell and Britten. The spring concert (with organ) focused on French composers Vierne, Langlais, Poulenc and Villette. The choir turned to America for its summer programme, featuring Barber, Copland, Villa Lobos and Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna. For the 2003 Edinburgh Festival concert it was back to Europe, with music by Bach, Haydn and Zelenka.
Invitations from music clubs enable the choir to programme music more suited to smaller, intimate venues. Recent engagements have seen performances of part-songs by Finzi and Stanford, chansons by Debussy and folk-songs by Vaughan Williams. In the 2003/2004 season, music club programmes will include Brahms part-songs, Stanford motets and Rutter's Birthday Madrigals. For further details of this season’s concert programmes, see Concerts.