These are new for us this year:
Holy Thursday Communion Proper: Simplex: Calicem Salutaris
Good Friday: Victoria: Popule Meus
Holy Saturday: Nestor: I Saw Water

Once you've settled on good settings of ritual music for Holy Week, it makes it easier from year to year to change only a few things. This year, our good new things are:

Holy Thursday - Mandatum (Peter Latona)
(We were THIS close to singing the Victoria Passion on Good Friday)
Easter Vigil - My setting of the Easter Alleluia, SATB based on the Gregorian.
Easter Sunday - I Am Risen / Ressurexi (Richard J. Clark)

What Andrew said.

What is great for me is that we will celebrate Easter Sunday this year again instead of the Vigil (small town sacrifice) so I'm getting to learn more new pieces. And the most gratifying thing is - sorry to be a broken record - the people love it!

But that Vigil - I could sing it cold at the last minute and not miss a beat, we did it the same way forever!

Big progress:
Proper entrance and communion antiphon for Holy Thursday along with the Durufle Ubi Caritas. The Pange Lingua In Latin along the last two verses set by Durufle (they love that piece here.)
The reproaches for Good Friday, a big move forward.
Frank LaRocca's Christ Our passover for Easter along with the Randall Thompson Alleluia. My choirs work hard for Holy Week, but they always surprise me with their artistry.

Tantum ergo - Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) ... (Score available at CPDL):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU7rFEOzgcg

Thank you, Chuck, will compliment the Morber piece quite wonderfully.

We have already been in a pretty good place in the past few years, given the current abilities of the choir. However I would say our two biggest improvements this year are that we are singing the Missa de Angelis at Easter Vigil, and the priest is singing the Exsultet (rather than yours truly :-).

For the last four years for Good Friday we have been singing much from the Graduale,
with Victoria's setting of "Popule Meus" with the chant verses (Thanks CPDL!). We sing a Mode 8 setting of Psalm 31, done by Fr. Jeffrey R. Keyes, CPPS. The Passion is chanted in English by a Counter-tenor, Tenor (Narrator), and Fr. Keyes (Christus). During the Holy Communion we sing "Adoramus te" ... Dubois, "Ave verum Corpus" ... Byrd, "Tenebrae factae sunt" & "O Bone Jesu" ... Ingegneri. Our two newest motets will come on Easter Day: "Haec es dies" a 5 ... Palestrina, as a choral prelude, and Palestrina's "Terra tremuit" a 5 after the offertorium chant. A great joy for us this Lent and Easter season is to have with us as an artist-in-residence and guest precentor the very talented Jeffrey Morse, who will be sharing with us his knowledge of the "Mary Berry Tradition." We are very much looking forward to Easter this year!

I would insert a comment here about him needing to move to a dryer climate... But I will refrain this once.

Ave Verum (chant) Ubi Caritas (chant) Pange Lingua for Holy Thursday.

Crucem Tuam, Stabat Mater (Simple Tone) and Miserere (Allegri) for Good Friday.

This is the choir's first year, so we started simple. The Miserere is the only choral piece we learned. We'll add next year.

Propers on Easter Sunday for the "high" Mass. Baby steps...it's a start. Eventually maybe we'll sing the Propers at all the Masses.

Doing the Reproaches from the Graduale Parvum instead of the Simplex. Otherwise all is same.

Funny thing. I worked at a nightmare place, to which I refer often here, although not by name or location of course. Anyhow, this was the place that complained incessantly about my use of Latin, and was one of the most "progressive" places in the diocese.

My first Holy Week there, many people, including the whole choir, solemnly asserted to me that they have ALWAYS sung the entire Pange Lingua in Latin on Holy Thursday, which I of course happily did.

You can't make this stuff up.

On another note, it's always exciting to hear about people "first years" with a newly formed choir from scratch. Such exciting times. And it will only get better!

We have always sung some Latin and some English verses. No one has complained about either or both.

That is a very magnanimous gesture to point toward your predecessor Wendi, and acknowledge the continuity that the Church strives for in all its worship arts. When generations "turn" within a parish, the most gratifying experience for the Faithful in the pews is that the "wheel or worship" not be re-invented. Your folding in of past practices and repertoire is a most responsible act in keeping that continuum.
We all owe our predecessors a gratitude for their time, talent and efforts to serve the Holy Mass. Good on ye, dearest.

Couple of new things for us this year at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, in addition to the usual ordinaries and propers.

Holy Thursday
Ubi Caritas Ola Gjeilo
Mandatum Peter Latona
Ave Verum Corpus Flor Peeters
Pange lingua is chanted in Latin, English and Vietnamese

Good Friday
O Vos Omnes Pablo Casals
The Reproaches John Sanders
Crucifixus a 8 Antonio Lotti
Salvator mundi Herbert Howells

Easter Vigil
I Saw Water Flowing Leo Nestor
Haec Dies Herbert Howells
Regina Coeli Giovanni da Palestrina

Easter Sunday (Children's Choir with Adult Men
Easter Carol Richard Proulx
I Saw Water Flowing Nestor
Regina Coeli Palestrina

New this year:
Schola men to sing 1st responsory of Good Friday (1 more responsory next year and we'll have covered full propers for Triduum!)
O Jesu Christe, Berchem
Christus factus est, Anerio

Returning for the second year:
Miserere, Allegri

I do too. As long as we can find a coloratura to sing that soprano line I'll program it. We tend to have college students sing it and they keep graduating on me. :)

I love the Gjeilo piece...it's on my list to learn for next year.