Arthur Bliss thought Bliss's music competent but unremarkable. In 1961, Bliss and Hassall collaborated on a cantata, "The Beatitudes", commissioned for the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral. Reviews were friendly, but the work has rarely been performed since, and has been eclipsed by another choral work written for Coventry at the same time, Britten's "War Requiem". Bliss followed this with two further large-scale choral works, "Mary of Magdala" (1962) and "The Golden Cantata" (1963). Throughout his life, Bliss was vigilant on the state of music in Britain, about which he had written extensively since the 1920s. In 1969 he publicly censured
Music of Remembrance and reconstructed in the USA in 1942. Music specially commissioned by the company includes "Camp Songs" (2002) by Paul Schoenfield, five songs set to poems by who was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. This piece was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 and was also on their first recording. Music of Remembrance also commissioned three pieces by Jake Heggie: "For a Look or A Touch" (2007, for baritone and actor), about the persecution of gay men during the Holocaust; "Another Sunrise" (2012, soprano), based on the life and work of Polish resistance member and