Storm on the Lake
This hymn anthem commemorates the sermon preached by Bishop John Perry at the Institution of Reverend Eileen Wetherell as Vicar of Calmore near Southampton.
Category: Hymn-Anthems
Lord of all hopefulness (Hymn-anthem)
** 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
Daw llafn o haul (A blade of your spring sunlight)
** In 2012 these words, by Siân Rhiannon, were set for the class in the National Eisteddfod in which a new hymn was to be composed. The lyric, roughly translated alongside the Welsh original, is a sunny affirmation of God’s love continually poured forth Read More …
I cannot look on Thee, to Love I said
*** The music of this hymn was composed during a Lee Abbey Mission in Holy Epiphany Bournemouth. The intensely devotional words came thirty years later. COMMENTARY “Love bade me welcome” wrote George Herbert in his poem ‘Love’, “yet my soul drew Read More …
This body, Lord, is mine and yours
*** Romans 12.1 is the inspiration for this hymn: I beseech you, present your bodies as a living sacrifice. It would be good if congregations are encouraged to sing this hymn, but, plainly, it is more of a hymn-anthem than a Read More …
One dark night transcendent light
*** As a kind of rhapsody for the Christmas (or any other) season the hymn extemporises on verse 12 of Jeremiah’s great 31st chapter: They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of Read More …
Hey the gift (anthem)
I made this SATB expansion of the song ‘Hey the gift’ for the Southampton Mayflower Singers. It is great fun to sing, accessible, but also challenging! The tune of the song is passed back and forth between the voices. Singers should note that Read More …
Day by day
This arrangement, for children or solo accompanied by SATB and piano, develops a song requested for Northam Middle School, Southampton, in 1992.
All you Works of God
### This colourful Benedicite should be within the range of competent choirs, but it is quite long! I wrote it as a thanksgiving for having started on the road to recovery after a long and disabling illness. 199. All you Read More …
Praise my soul the King of heaven
** This tune was composed to be sung in unison at a Lee Abbey Reunion in Bristol, led by Rodney LEESON. The setting here is dedicated to his memory. This hymn is based on Psalm 103, and Lyte wrote a stanza, rarely sung, Read More …