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RNZ News
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Hymns on Sunday, 6 July 2025
Award-winning English composer Howard Goodall is responsible for the music to many well-known TV series, including Mr Bean, The Vicar of Dibley and Blackadder. In this week's programme, you can hear his setting of Charles Wesley's hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling . Ruins of Coventry Cathedral Photo: Andrew Walker, CC BY-SA 3.0 Artist: St Michael's Singers, Coventry Cathedral Words/Music: Isaac Watts/Christopher Norton Recording: Kingsway KMCD 582 Come, let us join our cheerful songs with angels round the throne; ten thousand thousand are their tongues, but all their joys are one. 'Worthy the Lamb that died,' they cry, 'to be exalted thus'; 'Worthy the Lamb,' our lips reply, 'for he was slain for us.' Jesus is worthy to receive honour and power divine; and blessings, more than we can give, be, Lord, for ever thine. The whole creation joins in one to bless the sacred name of him that sits upon the throne, and to adore the Lamb. Artist: Choir of Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, Catherine Palmer (dir), Ronald Jordan (organ) Words/Music: Robert Lowry Recording: Marquis Classics Low in the grave He lay Jesus my Saviour! Waiting the coming day Jesus my Lord! Refrain: Up from the grave He arose, With a mighty triumph o'er His foes He arose a victor from the dark domain, And He lives forever with His saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose! Vainly they watch His bed Jesus, my Saviour! Vainly they seal the dead Jesus my Lord! Refrain: Death cannot keep his prey Jesus, my Saviour! He tore the bars away Jesus my Lord! Refrain: Artist: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, Catherine Palmer (dir), Ronald Jordan (organ) Words/Music: Joseph Addison/F.A. Gore Ouseley Recording: Marquis 181175 When all thy mercies, O my God, my rising soul surveys, transported with the view, I'm lost in wonder, love, and praise. Unnumbered comforts on my soul thy tender care bestowed, before my infant heart conceived from whom those comforts flowed. When in the slippery paths of youth with heedless steps I ran, thine arm unseen conveyed me safe, and brought me up to man. Through every period of my life thy goodness I'll pursue, and after death in distant worlds the glorious theme renew. Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for O, eternity's too short to utter all thy praise. Artist: Viva Voce, John Rosser (dir), Michael Bell (organ) Words/Music: Jocelyn Marshall/Christopher Marshall Recording: NZ Hymnbook Trust 9413000 God of ages, times and seasons, light that shines through all that lives, yours the spirit which empowers, yours the caring heart that gives confidence to face the future, strengthens faith when courage wanes, challenges to new endeavours, when we doubt, our hope sustains. God of galaxies and planets far beyond all human thought, centuries, like pages turning, are within your keeping brought. You, the past that makes our present, you the future still concealed, yours the sacrificial giving, boundless love through Christ revealed. God, Creator, Holy Spirit, Word made flesh in Christ, your Son whose example we would follow so that all might be as one – ever loving, ever hopeful of a world redeemed, restored; people, by their faith united, dedicated to their Lord. God, the Alpha and Omega, source of wisdom, life and breath, you our highest motivation, you the love that conquers death. In past ages people sought you; you are with us now as then. In your hands we leave the future, God, our ultimate Amen. Artist: Wells Cathedral Choir/Malcolm Archer (dir), Rupert Gough (organ) Words/Music: Timothy Dudley-Smith/Walter Greatorex Recording: Hyperion 112105 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord! Unnumbered blessings give my spirit voice; tender to me the promise of his word; in God my Saviour shall my heart rejoice. Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his name! Make known his might, the deeds his arm has done; his mercy sure, from age to age the same; his holy name the Lord, the Mighty One. Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his might! Powers and dominions lay their glory by. Proud hearts and stubborn wills are put to flight, the hungry fed, the humble lifted high. Tell out, my soul, the glories of his word! Firm is his promise, and his mercy sure. Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord to children's children and forevermore! Artist: Choir of Westminster Abbey, Martin Neary (dir), Martin Baker (organ) Words/Music: Cardinal John Henry Newman/John Dykes Recording: Griffin 224018 Praise to the holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all his words most wonderful, Most sure in all his ways. O loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame, A second Adam to the fight And to the rescue came. O generous love! that he, who smote, In man for man the foe, The double agony in man For man should undergo. And in the garden secretly, And on the cross on high, Should teach his brethren, and inspire To suffer and to die. Praise to the holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all his words most wonderful, Most sure in all his ways. Artist: Auckland Branch of the NZ Choral Federation Words/Music: Colin Gibson Recording: Praise Be 2006 He came singing love and he lived singing love; he died singing love. He arose in silence. For the love to go on we must make it our song: you and I be the singers. He came singing faith and he lived singing faith; he died singing faith. He arose in silence. For the faith to go on we must make it our song: you and I be the singers. He came singing hope and he lived singing hope; he died singing hope. He arose in silence. For the hope to go on we must make it our song: you and I be the singers. He came singing peace and he lived singing peace; he died singing peace. He arose in silence. For the peace to go on we must make it our song: you and I be the singers. SONG: TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS Artist: Upper Norwood Salvation Army Band Words/Music: Lemmel Recording: Word SALCD 002 [instrumental only] Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace. Artist: Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, London Musici, Howard Goodall Words/Music: Charles Wesley/Howard Goodall Recording: EMI 215047 Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling; all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion; pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation; enter every trembling heart. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast; let us all in thee inherit; let us find the promised rest. Take away the love of sinning; Alpha and Omega be; end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. Come, Almighty, to deliver; let us all thy life receive; suddenly return, and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray, and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. Finish then thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee: changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Irish Independent
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Acclaimed composer and poet unite to mark Bray Choral Society's anniversary
The Bray Choral Society, under the direction of Frank Kelly, presented a fabulous evening of music on Sunday, May 25, at Holy Redeemer Church, in celebration of its 40th anniversary. The programme featured a specially commissioned work by acclaimed composer Howard Goodall, 'The Creation Song of the Choir of Light', written to mark the choir's significant milestone. The highlight of the evening was The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins, originally commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum. Composed in 1999. The work is dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo conflict, part of the broader and devastating Balkan wars of the early 1990s. Accompanied by imagery projected on screens in the church, the performance was widely praised as both powerful and deeply moving and was met huge applause from a full Holy Redeemer Church. The performance in Bray followed a similarly spellbinding concert in St Andrew's Church, in Westland Row, on Saturday. Keith Brennan, the poet and farmer from Roscommon, was commissioned to write the lyrics to 'The Creation Song of the Choir of Light'. He told RTE's Philip Boucher Hayes how it came about and described working with Howard Goodall to compose the piece. 'Howard Goodall, had seen and heard my writing about my life on a small, unkempt, half-wild, Roscommon farm. And he thought to set some of that life and home to music. I have never done anything of the sort. To take my words and have them weaved into the sung air seemed, still seems, like a kind of magic,' he said. "The piece begins on a morning on the farm. The ragged thorn hedges. The curl of wind through trees. The rising tide of birdsong that breaks over the fields. I talk to Howard. Of pine martins. Sapphire-eyed sparrowhawks. Of farmer friends in love with cuckoos and swallows. Of the leverets I find in the rushy lee of a field. The furious greening that grips the spring world. 'The ramshackle hedges and pastures that let slip tumbles of wildflowers from the fields that flow out and along roads and across woodlands. He talked to me of choral music. Of Brexit and of culture wars. The public and private loneliness of Covid. Of how community can be made by music. Song. 'And because, as both Howard and I believe, wherever we share with one another the experience of beautiful things, the divides are blurred,' he continued. 'The gap between people close and is bridged. We are pulled a little closer in the sharing. And in the sharing we build community. So it is in my farm. So it is in my neighbours' fields. And so it will be, I think, when the choir sing.'
