The arresting text of this setting is from Janet Morley’s 1988 collection of prayers “All desires known“. I composed the music in a rush of gratitude after I first felt some strength returning after a protracted breakdown variously described as Read More …
This is a keyboard reduction of the score of ‘Stages SATB’ STAGES_60
** This anthem is an outworking of the unison setting I made for a 1974 Nativity tableau (See Hymns/Outworkings of the Gospel/Community). Lord of all hopefulness SATB piano and solo instrument.midi
The music of this setting of the Nunc Dimittis was composed in 1973 as a song with original words for the old man Simeon in Luke 2.29-32. I adapted that song as solo Nunc Dimittis for the funeral in 2013 of Read More …
** This 2006 anthem, written for the Matins Choir at St Teilo’s Church, Llandeilo Fawr, was grown from a Round composed in 1979. Rejoice, O land (SATB + organ).midi
*** I wrote this originally as a song for the prophetess Anna (Luke 2.36-38), and expanded it into an SATB anthem (unaccompanied, ideally) in 2001. A Song for Anna (choral rvsd 14.6.16).midi
** These words are from William Temple’s Readings in St John’s Gospel (1939). I set them in the hope that, by being sung, they would imprint themselves on the memory of worshippers. The occasion of my setting the words was a meeting Read More …
It was a particular pleasure that the Conchord Singers of Southampton performed this for a choir from St Andre de l’Eure in Normandy, a town not far from Lisieux, where the convent that housed St Therese (‘the Little Flower of Read More …
This setting is really an introit for four-part choir. I have included it as a hymn because it can be easily learned by a congregation, and perhaps be sung as a post-Communion devotion. O Lord Jesus Christ, by thy tender Read More …