Fredric Woodbridge Wilson

Selected Conducting Repertory, 1966–1996

Recordings of many selections in MP3 format are available at:
http://arcadia.org/recordings.

Choral Music

J. S. Bach: Magnificat in D Major (orchestra); Motet No. 1, Singet dem Herrn (double chorus); Motet No. 6, Lobet dem Herrn; Short works
Hugh Blair: Evening Service in B Minor
Samuel Barber: Reincarnations; A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map (instrumental ensemble); Part-songs
Joseph Barnby: Sing a Joyous Roundelay
Bela Bartok: Three Hungarian Folk Songs
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Short works
William Billings: Short works (§)
Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (orchestra); Lieder und Romanzen, Op. 93a; Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52; Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren (organ); Abendständchen; All' meine Herzgedanken (double choir); Darthulas Grabgesang; Der Abend; Ich schwing mein Horn ins Jammertal; Vineta; Motets; Part-songs
Benjamin Britten: Missa Brevis in D Major (organ); Hymn to St. Cecilia; Five Flower Songs; Five Choral Dances from Gloriana; A Ceremony of Carols (harp); The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard; Friday Afternoons; A Boy Was Born; A Hymn to the Virgin
Anton Bruckner: Motets
Dietrich Buxtehude: Magnificat in D Major
William Byrd: Mass for Three Voices; Mass for Five Voices; Ave verum corpus; Haec Dies; I Will Not Leave You Comfortless (Non vos relinquam orphanos) §
Giacomo Carissimi: Jepthe (instrumental ensemble)
Pierre Certon: Chansons
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Midnight Mass for Christmas (orchestra); Psalm 117 , Laudate Dominum (ensemble) §
Aaron Copland (arr): Old American Songs
Ivor Davies: Prayers From the Ark
Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons
Frederick Delius: Two Unaccompanied Part Songs
Josquin Des Près: Ave Maria; El Grillo (§); Mille regretz
John Dowland: Ayres (§); Psalms (§)
Francesco Durante (attrib. Pergolesi): Magnificat in B Flat Major (orchestra)
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem (organ); Motets
Jonathan Elkus: Of Players to Come (commissioned; premiere); The Age of Fable (triple choir; commissioned; premiere)

Duke Ellington: A Sacred Concert (Duke Ellington Orchestra, cond. Ellington)
John Farmer: Ayres and Madrigals §
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem (orchestra); Messe Basse (organ); Madrigal; Motets
Giovanni Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo (instrumental ensemble); Motets
Orlando Gibbons: This is the Record of John (instrumental ensemble); The Street Cryes of London (instrumental ensemble); Short works
George Frideric Handel: Messiah (orchestra); Chandos Anthem No. 6; Zadok the Priest, Coronation Anthem (orchestra)
Jacob Handl (Jacobus Gallus): Ascendit Deus (§); Ecce, quomodo moritur justus §; Mirabile mysterium §; En ego campana §; O admirabile commercium (double choir) §; O magnum mysterium (double choir) §; Pater noster (double choir) §; Resonet in laudibus (3 settings, double choir) §; Psalm 150 , Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius (24 -part) §; Pueri concinite §; Regem natum §; Tribus miraculis ornatum diem (triple choir) §; Vesperae autem sabbati §
Heinrich von Herzogenberg: Weinachts-Lied §
Franz Josef Haydn: Te Deum in C Major (orchestra); The Creation (orchestra); Missa Sanctis Joannis de Deo (orchestra)
Paul Hindemith: Six Chansons
Gustav Holst: Hymn of Jesus (orchestra); Christmas Day (instrumental ensemble)
Michael Hurd: Charms and Ceremonies; Fancies
Heinrich Isaac: Part-songs
Charles Ives: Psalm 90 (instrumental ensemble); Short works
Zoltán Kodály: Ave Maria; Psalm 121 , I will lift up mine eyes; Veni, veni Emmanuel; A Birthday Greeting for the Christ Child; Cohors Generosa; De aurea mediocritate; Horatii Carmen II.10, Rectius vives; Short works
Orlando Di Lasso: Penitential Psalms; In hora ultima §; Passan vostri trionfi §; Motets §; Chansons §
James Leisy: Dance To the Music of Time
Claude Lejeune: Chansons
Antonio Lotti: Mass in C Major §; Motets
Walter Macfarren: Part-songs §
Felix Mendelssohn: Motets §; Am Neujahrstage (Herr, Gott, du bist unsre Zünsembleucht, Op. 79, No. 2)
Claudio Monteverdi: Psalm 122, Laetatus sum (instrumental ensemble) §; Psalm 111 , Beatus vir; Lamento della ninfa; Madrigals; Motets §
Thomas Morley: Madrigals §
W. A. Mozart: Requiem (orchestra); Vesperae Solennes de Confessores (orchestra); Regina coeli (instrumental ensemble); Short works
Jacques Offenbach: Opera choruses
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (pianos and percussion)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Brevis; Motets
C. Hubert H. Parry: I Was Glad, Coronation Anthem (organ)
Robert Lucas de Pearsall: In dulci jubilo (double choir) §; The River Spirits' Song §; When Allen-a-Dale Went a-Hunting §
Martin Peerson: Sing, Love Is Blind
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (instrumental ensemble)
Daniel Pinkham: Wedding Cantata; Four Choral Songs (commissioned; premiere); Short works
Steven Porter: The Creation (instrumental ensemble)
Francis Poulenc: Gloria (orchestra); Petites voix; Motets
Michael Praetorius: Short works
Giacomo Puccini: Messa di Gloria
Henry Purcell: Come, Ye Sons of Art; Short works
Maurice Ravel: Trois Chansons
Thomas Ravenscroft: Short works (§)
Gioacchino Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle; Short works
Antonio Scarlatti: Exsultate Deo §
Samuel Scheidt: Motets
Johann Hermann Schein: Motets
Arnold Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden; Short works
Gustav Schreck: Advent Motet (double choir)
Franz Schubert: Mass in F Major (instrumental ensemble); Mass in B Flat Major; Mass in G Major; Bootgesang; Der Gondelfahrer; Short works
Robert Schumann: Zigeunerleben
Heinrich Schütz: The Seven Last Words from the Cross (instrumental ensemble); Psalm 84 , Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (double choir); Saul (triple choir; ensemble); Ein Kind ist uns geboren (instrumental ensemble); Motets
Claudin de Sermisy: Chansons
Barne Slödegal: Antiphona de Morte
John Stainer: Crucifixion (organ)
Arthur Sullivan: Opera choruses; Part-songs §
Tylman Susato: Danserye of 1551 (Instrumental Suite) §
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie, Christus natus est §
Randall Thompson: Frostiana (orchestra); The Last Words of David (orchestra); Americana (orchestra); The Peaceable Kingdom (double choir); Alleluia; The Eternal Dove
Virgil Thomson: Short works
Ernst Toch: Geographical Fugue; Valse
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major (orchestra)
Healey Willan: An Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts (double choir); Three Songs to Music; Hodie, Christus natus est; The Three Kings; Short works
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music (orchestra); Mass in G Minor (double chorus); Six Choral Songs; Valiant-for-Truth; Fantasy on Christmas Carols; Five English Folk Songs; Eight Traditional English Carols; Dirge for Fidele; Linden Lea; Orpheus With His Lute §; Rest; Silence and Music, from A Garland for the Queen; Short works
Giuseppe Verdi: Opera choruses
Tomas Luis de Victoria: Motets
Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals §
John Wilbye: Madrigals §
Malcolm Williamson: North Country Songs; Six Evening Hymns
Hugo Wolf: Morgenhymnus (orchestra); Arrangements of folk songs, spirituals, carols, hymns, glee club and barbershop songs, show tunes, etc.

Stage Works

Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand: Cox and Box §
Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert: Trial by Jury (orchestra); The Sorcerer (orchestra); H.M.S. Pinafore (orchestra) §; The Yeomen of the Guard (orchestra) §; The Gondoliers (orchestra)
Jacques Offenbach: La Périchole (orchestra)
Erik Satie: Geneviève de Brabant
Henry Purcell: Dido and Æneas (instrumental ensemble)
Claudio Monteverdi: Tirsi e Clori (instrumental ensemble)
Gian-Carlo Menotti: The Gorgon, the Unicorn, and the Manticore (instrumental ensemble); Amahl and the Night Visitors (orchestra)
Benjamin Britten: The Beggar's Opera (stage direction)
Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht: The Threepenny Opera (orchestra)
Irving Berlin: Annie Get Your Gun (orchestra)
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick: The Apple Tree (orchestra)
Charles Strouse and Lee Adams: Bye Bye Birdie (orchestra)
Bob Merrill: Carnival (orchestra)
Frank Loesser: Guys and Dolls (orchestra)
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (instrumental ensemble)
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd: Oklahoma! (orchestra); The King and I (orchestra)
Cole Porter: Kiss Me, Kate (orchestra)
Johnny Mercer and Gene de Paul: L'il Abner (orchestra)
Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion: Man of La Mancha (orchestra)
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross: The Pajama Game (orchestra)

Most works were performed by the Wall Choirs, Wall Chamber Choir, Allaire Singers, Shark River Chorale, All-Shore Chorus, Youth Honors Chorus (N.J.), Washington Square Chorus, New York University Collegium Musicum Chorus, Lehigh University Glee Club, Westminster Choir College Summer Choirs, Canby Singers (N.Y.); total of more than 450 concert performances, ca. 1967–1996.

Except as noted, works were performed unaccompanied or with keyboard accompaniment.

The symbol § indicates works edited by F. W. Wilson from original sources.