Great Sacred Music

A sequence to speak to heart, head and soul, exploring through songs and readings the great classical music of our religious heritage.

No.1. The Lord looked down
Hymn: Praise to the Lord, the almighty, the King of Creation
No.2 The people of Fun City
No.3 Then Japhet, Shem and Ham
No.4 It looks like rain
No 5. For the floodgates of Heaven were opened
No.6. Forty days and nights
No.7 For the Lord closed the floodgates
No. 8 Father Noah please open the porthole
Hymn: All creatures of our God and King
No.9 Then the Lord looked down
No.10 Oh what a wonderful scene

A sequence to speak to heart, head and soul, exploring through songs and readings the great classical music of our religious heritage.

Spirit of God, unseen as the wind – arr. Paul Leddington Wright
Hymn: Come down, O love divine (Down Ampney)
Loquebantur variis linguis – Thomas Tallis
Veni creator spiritus – Palestrina
Come, Holy Ghost – Thomas Attwood
I will sing with the spirit – John Rutter
Hymn: Come, Holy Spirit, Come! (Diademata)
Ev’ry time I feel the spirit – Spiritual arr. Moses Hogan

A sequence to speak to heart, head and soul, exploring through songs and readings the great classical music of our religious heritage.

Let all the world – George Dyson
Hymn: Hail the day that sees him rise (Llanfair)
Alleluia Ascendit – William Byrd
God is gone up – William Croft
O clap your hands – Orlando Gibbons
Hymn: Crown him with many crowns (Diademata)
Let all the world – Sally Albrecht

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells
Directed by Olivia Tait
Performed by St Martin’s Voices
Accompanied by Jon Dods


Mothering God, you gave me birth (Mother Julian)
Hymn: O God, you search me and you know me (Bernadette Farrell)
O virtus sapientiae – Hildegard von Bingen arr. Katerina Gimon
Prayer of Julian of Norwich – Carson Cooman
The Hazelnut – Joe Bates
See, I am God – Michael Higgins
Hymn: Eternal God, supreme in tenderness (Woodlands)
All shall be well – Carol J. Jones

Christ be with you – Barry Rose
Hymn: Jesus calls us o’er the tumult
Once in a Royal David’s city – arr. Will Todd
There is a green hill – Herbert Sumsion
All things bright and beautiful – Philip Stopford
Hymn: I bind unto myself today
Christ is risen – John Carter