Q: who is the composer whose work you're working through in choir?
A: We're working our way through "the Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems", Tudor being defined as roughly 1525-1625 - the 'golden age of English church music': Weelkes, Gibbons, Philips, Parsons, Byrd, Farrant, Tallis, Tomkins, Mundy, etc. Then "European Sacred Music" (1500--twentieth century non-English, mostly Latin and German): Bach, Brahms, Bruckner, Faure, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mozart, Palestrina, Rossini, Schubert, Stravinsky, Verdi, etc.
Very heavy music for this particular church. Why do you ask?