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.

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

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells
Directed by Andrew Earis
Performed by St Martin’s Voices




Under the Greenwood tree – Ernest Moeran
Hymn: Teach me, my God, and King (Sandys)
Come away, death – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Excerpt from ’Serenade to Music’ – Ralph Vaughan Williams
It was a lover and his lass (from Songs and Sonnets of Shakespeare) – George Shearing
The Isle is full of noises – Bob Chilcott
Hymn: Let all the world (Luckington)
Full fathom five – Charles Wood