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  • Great Sacred Music

    Thursday 22 October: Round me falls the night

    22/10/2026 | 40 mins.
    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 Andrew Earis
    Performed by St Martin's Voices
    Accompanied by Gavin Roberts

    O Danny Boy – Irish trad. arr. Bob Chilcott
    Hymn: God, that madest earth and heaven (Ar hyd y nos)
    Te lucis ante terminum – Henry Balfour Gardiner
    Abendlied – Josef Rheinberger
    An Evening Hymn – Bill Chilcott
    Round me falls the night – Annabel Rooney
    Hymn: Abide with me (Eventide)
    Crossing the bar – Rano Arbo
  • Great Sacred Music

    Thursday 15 October: Pilgrimage

    15/10/2026 | 35 mins.
    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 Andrew Earis
    Performed by St Martin’s Voices
    Accompanied by Gavin Roberts

    Wide open spaces – Sarah Quartel
    Hymn: Brother, sister, let me serve you (Servant Song)
    Pilgrims’ Hymn – Stephen Paulus
    Valiant for truth – Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Pilgrims Chorus (from ’Tannhäuser) – Richard Wagner (Katie – Schirmer edition?)
    Hymn: Who would true valour see (Monk’s Gate)
    Walk by faith – Joel Raney
  • Great Sacred Music

    Thursday 8 October: Thomas Traherne

    08/10/2026 | 34 mins.
    A sequence to speak to heart, head and soul, exploring through songs and readings the great classical music of our religious heritage.

    Led by Laura Newey
    Directed by Andrew Earis
    Performed by St Martin’s Voices
    Accompanied by Gavin Roberts

    A Stranger here – Patrick Hawes
    Hymn: The God of love my shepherd is (University)
    Lo! The full final sacrifice – Gerald Finzi
    Hymn: Let all the world (Luckington)
    The sun and the stars are mine – Bob Chilcott
  • Great Sacred Music

    Thursday 1 October: Archbishop Parker’s Psalter

    01/10/2026 | 31 mins.
    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 Andrew Earis
    Performed by St Martin’s Voices
    Accompanied by Gavin Roberts

    Man blest no doubt (First mode melody)
    Hymn: O Holy Spirit, Lord of Grace (Tallis’ Ordinal)
    Expend, O Lord, my plaint of word (Sixth mode melody)
    With all our hearts – Tallis
    Why fumeth in fight (Third mode melody)
    Christ rising again – Tallis
    God grant we grace (Eighth mode melody)
    Salvator mundi – Tallis
    Hymn: Glory to thee, my, God, this night (Tallis’ Canon)
    If ye love me – Tallis
  • Great Sacred Music

    Thursday 24 September: John Rutter

    24/09/2026 | 38 mins.
    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 Andrew Earis
    Performed by St Martin’s Voices
    Accompanied by Gavin Roberts

    Dashing away with the smoothing iron
    Hymn: All my hope on God is founded arr. Rutter
    There is a flower
    O clap your hands
    Rest in peace
    The Lord’s my shepherd
    Hymn: The day thou gavest arr. Rutter
    When the Saints go marching in
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A weekly sequence of words and music from St Martin-in-the-Fields
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