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.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells
Directed by Jennifer Sterling
Performed by St Martin’s Voices

The cloths of heaven – Esther Bersweden (W.B. Yeats)
Hymn: King of glory, King of peace (Gwalchmai)
The Tyger – René Clausen (William Blake)
I would live in your love – Nils Greenhow (Sara Teasdale)
Love bade me welcome – Judith Weir (George Herbert)
Here, home – Lucy Walker (Andrew Motion)
Hymn: Lead, kindly light (Alberta)
Sure on this shining night – Morton Lauridsen (James Agee)

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

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells
Directed by Polina Sosnina
Performed by St Martin's Voices

Sicut cervus – G.P. da Palestrina
Hymn: Touch the earth lightly
Look at the world – John Rutter
The Lord is my shepherd – Herbert Howells
The blue bird – C.V. Stanford
Loch Lomond – trad. Scottish arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hymn: For the beauty of the earth
Wade in the water – trad. 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.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells
Directed by Polina Sosnina
Performed by St Martin’s Voices


Harbour – Anna Tabbush
Hymn: Make me a channel of your peace
There is a balm in Gilead – William L. Dawson
Ubi caritas – Ola Gjeilo
Da pacem – Arvo Pärt
Hymn: Brother, sister, let me serve you
I’ve got peace like a river – arr. Mary MacDonald

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

Led by Theo Nisbett
Directed by Gabby Noble
Performed by St Martin’s Voices
Accompanied by Michael Cayton

Assumpta est Maria – Carlo Gesualdo
Hymn: Sing we of the blessed mother (Abbot’s Leigh)
Ave maris stella – Edvard Grieg (European Sacred Music)
As dew in Aprille – Benjamin Britten
Ave Maria – Igor Stravinsky
Hymn: Tell out, my soul (Woodlands)
Gaude virgo – Josquin Desprez

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

Led by Sarah Keating
Directed by Polina Sosnina
Performed by St Martin’s Voices

Hodie in monte – Peter Philips
Hymn: Be thou my vision
O nata lux – Thomas Tallis
O Radiant Dawn – James MacMillan
Let all mortal flesh keep silence – Edward Bairstow
Hymn: Christ, whose glory fills the skies
I saw eternity – Lucy Walker