Hymns on Sunday

Hymns for All Saints' Day and Reformation Day in this week's programme, and there's a spiritual from Auckland's The Graduate Choir which is celebrating its 21st birthday this year. Read more Audio

We’re marking World Mission Sunday this week with hymns including Dan Schutte’s I, the Lord of sea and sky  and the traditional spiritual Who’ll be a witness for my Lord? Read more Audio

Brass bands and hymn tunes go so well together! In this week’s programme, you can hear a spine-tingling rendition of Joseph Parry’s Aberystwyth played by Christchurch band Woolston Brass. Read more Audio

We're celebrating 150 years since the birth of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in this week's programme. Find out how this 'cheerful agnostic' had a major impact on 20th century western… Read more Audio

Hymns with a focus on St Francis of Assisi and nature this week. The patron saint of ecology’s feast day is on 4 October and marks the end of the Season of Creation in the church calendar. Read more Audio

Lancelot Andrewes was a 16^th century English bishop and one of a group of Church of England scholars appointed to compile the King James version of the Bible. You can hear John Rutter’s beautiful… Read more Audio

Henry Lyte’s hymn Praise, my soul, the king of heaven was one of Queen Elizabeth II’s favourites – you can hear a beautifully stately rendition by the Huddersfield Choral Society in this week’s… Read more Audio

It’s hymns ancient and modern this week. We’ve a setting of Hail, gladdening light (a hymn from the 3^rd or 4^th century), and In You we live written in 2010 by Sue Mepham from Flagstaff Community… Read more Audio

The Season of Creation has begun (1 September to 4 October in the church calendar) and this week’s programme includes some creation-themed favourites. Sing along to How great thou art, All things… Read more Audio

We're straight in with the big tunes this week. Sing along to Hubert Parry's well-loved melody, Jerusalem, paired with words by Arthur Grimshaw: Sing to the Lord a joyful song. Read more Audio

One hymn, two writers, 12 verses... that’s the hymn Crown Him with many crowns. We’ll hear three of those verses in today’s programme. Read more Audio

We’re marking the Feast of the Assumption of Mary with hymns including Immaculate Mary and Mō Maria. It’s an especially important time for New Zealand Catholics as St Mary of the Angels Church in… Read more Video, Audio