Its repertoire covers works from the 16th to the 21st centuries, able to combine in one long program pieces as diverse as Victoria's Officium Defunctorum, secular and sacred motets for solo voices, and Talbot's 2005 Path of Miracles.

[2] In 2002, they commissioned John Tavener to compose Mother and Child, setting a poem by Brian Keeble for choir, organ and temple gong.

[3] In 2006 the group toured with Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, written on its commission, to churches in Spain on the Camino de Santiago route.

They returned in following seasons, and received the Rheingau Musik Preis of 2023 during a performance called The Immersive Night of Choral Music; it offered Victoria's Officium Defunctorum, secular and sacred motets sung by the Tenebrae Consort of five to eight solo voices, and ending with Path of Miracles.

[1][5] A reviewer from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the sopranos as "floatingly free" and the basses as "fulminantly rich and sounding like a deep organ register".