Category: Praise
A preacher came from Nazareth
* The Winchester branch of RSCM commissioned Martin Leckebusch to write a hymn- text for which they invited musical settings . This is my offering. A preacher came from Nazareth.midi
God, un-composed Composer, Thou
* I wrote this for Music Sunday 2015
Come, make way for the music that sires the stars
This song was adapted for Andrew Douglas-Forbes and Konstantin Lapshin from a hymn I was invited to write on the theme ‘Make Way’. Only after the hymn was sung at the service in Winchester Cathedral for which it was composed Read More …
Ym Methlem datguddiwyd
* This hymn is written to be a carol for the Welsh service of Plygain. I am grateful that the author, Alice Evans, has approved my setting of her words. The appended (paraphrase) translation is mine. Ym Methlem datguddiwyd.midi TRANSLATION The prophesied Word Read More …
Called to worship by Your Spirit
* In October 2011, as part of a national celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a bi-lingual interdenominational festival Cenwch Clod Ddyffryn Tywi Valley Sing Praise was held at Capel Salem in Llandeilo Fawr. Giving expression to some of Read More …
Rejoice, O land
** 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
God, you look within the heart
*** This hymn elaborates the story of Samuel’s anointing of David to succeed Saul as king. It could also be read as a commentary on the Collect for Purity. God, you look into the heart.midi COMMENTARY ‘I was not the first 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 …
Enthroned beyond earth’s highest good
Bible readings for the Sunday between Ascension Day and Pentecost exhort Christians to remain firm in faith and expectation of Christ’s final victory over sin. This text was conceived in terms of the declamatory first three chords of Luther’s EIN Read More …