Hymn Accompaniment CDs

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Gibbons: Choral and Organ Music   

Gibbons is often better represented in the hymn book than in the serious music of a service - and this CD helps demonstrate why that's a shame. With a mix of verse and full anthems, plus both sets of Mag and Nunc, and a smattering of organ music it gives a good picture of Gibbons' church output. If you like the sound of madrigals, you'll like some of the church music, but there are also works in here to rival more heavy duty compositions - Out of the deep, for example. Both evening services are fun - the contemplative verse settings of the second service and the livelier short service.

Anthems sheet music

Frank Adlam

• Open to Me the Gates of Righteousness - SATB anthem

Gregorio Allegri

• Miserere - yes, that one. The anthem Mozart copied from memory after hearing it in the Sistine Chapel

Anon

• Rejoice in the Lord alway (ascribed Redford) - a lovely, bouncy setting, even better than Purcell's

Thomas Attwood

• Come, Holy Ghost - Whitsuntide (Pentecost) anthem
• Enter not into judgement
• Teach me, O Lord
• Turn thy face from my sins

C. P. E. Bach

• Vom Grab an dem Wir - unaccompanied SATB Easter anthem with German and English words (Christ Rose from Death's Dark Prison)

J. S. Bach

• Crown Him King of Kings - SATB and organ arrangement of piece taken from the Cantata Auf, Schmetternde Tone
• Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - probably the most requested anthem for weddings SATB/organ

Edgar Bainton

• And I saw a new heaven

Edward Bairstow

• Lord I Call Upon Thee - SATB and organ anthem for evening or general use

Samuel Barber

• Agnus Dei - this arrangement for voices of Barber's Adagio for Strings is electrifying: even better than the original

Arthur Bliss

• O Give Thanks unto the Lord - SATB and organ in a joyful anthem

John Blow

• O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem - solo soprano, SATB and organ accompaniment

William Boyce

• By the Waters of Babylon - SATB and piano accompaniment

Malcolm Boyle

• Thou, O God, Art Praised in Sion - SATB and organ

Benjamin Britten

• A Hymn to the Virgin - an unaccompanied SATB example of early Britten. Probably not his best, but worth exploring
• Jubilate Deo - SATB and organ setting

Anton Bruckner

• Christus factus est
• Locus Iste
• Os justi

Ernest Bullock

• Give Us the Wings of Faith - SATB and organ anthem for All Saints or general use

William Byrd

• Assumpta est Maria
• Ave Maria
• Ave verum corpus - arguably the most perfect anthem ever written: simply superb
• Beatus est
• Civitas sancti tui
• Confirma hoc Deus
• I will not leave you comfortless
• Justorum Animae - impressive SSATB anthem, especially suitable for funerals and commemorations
• Look down, O Lord
• Look down, O Lord (SSAA arrangement)
• Ne erasceris domine
• Non vos relinquam orphanos
• O magnum mysterium
• Salve regina
• Salve sancta parens
• Sing joyfully
• Teach Me O Lord - SAATB and organ setting of words from Psalm 119

Andrew Carter

• Deep Peace - SATB and organ with optional congregation part
• Easter Alleluya - SATB and organ: we're always on the lookout for good Easter anthems. This is lively and relatively easy to sing.
• The Light of the World - SATB and organ

Bob Chilcott

• Evensong - unaccompanied solo soprano and SATB setting of "Blest Be the God of Love"
• Even Such is Time - unaccompanied SATB setting of the meditation on death by Walter Raleigh
• God so Loved the World - for SATB and soprano solo. A fresh and different setting of the familiar words from the ex-King's Singer who is probably Rutter's closest challenger
• The Beatitudes - SATB and organ setting

Henry Coleman

• My God, How Wonderful Thou Art - SATB and piano anthem

Eccard

• When to the temple Mary went - a rare anthem for the Presentation of Christ, and rather nice it is too

Edward Elgar

• Ave verum - a very early work, and not one of his best, but quite popular
• Four Latin motets - Ave Maria, Ave Verum, Ave Maris Stella, Intende Voci Orationes Mea
• Seven anthems - Doubt not thy Father's care, Fear not, O land, Light of the world, Light out of darkness, O hearken Thou, The spirit of the Lord is upon me, They are at rest

David Fanshawe

• The Lord's Prayer - for voice, SATB and piano/organ, from Fanshawe's African Sanctus

Richard Farrant

• Call to Remembrance O Lord - unaccompanied SATB anthem, possibly by Farrant

Jean-Baptiste Faure (the Victorian baritone, not the well-known composer Gabriel)

• The Palms (Les Rameaux) (SAB+organ)
• The Palms (Les Rameaux) (SATB, baritone+organ)
• The Palms (Les Rameaux) (high voice+piano)
• The Palms (Les Rameaux) (medium voice+piano)
• The Palms (Les Rameaux) (low voice+piano)

Gabriel Faure

• Cantique de Jean Racine - Faure's glorious anthem for SATB and orchestra. Stirring and effective

Cesar Franck

• Panis Angelicus - the full SATB and organ setting of this very popular anthem
• Psalm 150 - for SATB choir and organ

Jakobus Gallus

• Ascendit Deus - SATBarB unaccompanied anthem for Ascensiontide

Andrew Gant

• By the Grace of the Spirit - SATB and organ anthem

Orlando Gibbons

• Almighty and Everlasting God - SATB and organ anthem
• Hosanna to the Son of David (SSAATTB)
• If ye be risen again (SSA)
• This is the record of John
• We beseech thee

Howard Goodall

Goodall's setting of the 23rd psalm, written as the theme for the TV show The Vicar of Dibley makes a surprisingly effective anthem. It is available in a number of versions

• The Lord is My Shepherd (SATB)
• The Lord is My Shepherd (Upper voice arrangement: SSA)
• The Lord is My Shepherd (Male voice arrangement: TTBarB)
• The Lord is My Shepherd (Piano, vocal and guitar)
• The Lord is My Shepherd (Immediate Download - melody line, lyrics and chords)

John Goss

• If We Believe that Jesus Died - one of the Victorian greats with and SATB and organ anthem for Passiontide

Maurice Greene

• Lord, Let Me Know Mine End - Greene is best known for his harvest anthem, Thou Visitest the Earth, but this setting of psalm 39 for SATB and organ is well worth trying
• Three Anthems - O God of My Righteousness, Blessed Are Those That Are Undefiled in the Way, and Let My Complaint Come Before Thee.

G. F. Handel

• The King Shall Rejoice - SAATBB and organ. The second of Handel's coronation anthems
• Let thy Hand be Strengthened - SAATB and organ. The four and last of Handel's coronation anthems
• My Heart is Inditing - SAATB and organ. The third of Handel's coronation anthems
• Praise the Lord - SATB and organ arrangement of the chorus from Judas Maccabeus
• Zadok the Priest - SAATBB and organ. The first and most famous of Handel's coronation anthems, used at the most recent British coronation
• Zadok the Priest - SATB and organ. In case your resources aren't up to the full seven parts, this arrangement by Silas, of the first and most famous of Handel's coronation anthems, might help

William Harris

• O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be - SATB and organ anthem, based on a traditional French tune

Jonathan Harvey

• God is our Refuge - SATB and organ anthem, easier than much of Harvey's output
• Thou Mastering Me God - SATB and organ anthem

Patrick Hawes

• O Lord Our Governor - SATB and organ
• When Israel was a Child - little known composer, but an effective SATB plus organ anthem

Herbert Howells

• God is gone up with a merry noise
• I love all beauteous things
• King of glory
• Like as the Hart desireth the Waterbrooks - probably Howells' most approachable anthem, and very beautiful
• Lord, by whose breath all souls and seeds are living
• One thing have I desired
• O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem - another of Howell's more approachable anthems for SATB and organ
• Now abideth faith, hope and charity
• Sequence for St Michael
• The house of the mind
• Thee I will love
• To the name of our salvation
• Where wast thou?

Charles Ives

• Lord God, Thy Sea is Mighty - SATB and organ anthem, handy for Sea Sunday

Gabriel Jackson

• I Look From Afar - unaccompanied SATB
• Salve Regina - SATB

John Jeffreys

• O My Dere Hert - SATB unaccompanied setting of a Martin Luther poem

H. W. Jones

• Praise my Soul the King of Heaven - SATB and organ celebratory anthem

John Joubert

• O Praise God in His Holiness - probably best known for his collaboration with David Willcocks on Carols for Choirs, Joubert here sets Psalm 150 for SATB and organ
• Seek the Lord - SATB and organ anthem

Lassus

• Motets for five voices

Morten Lauridsen

• O Nata Lux - unaccompanied SATB motet from Lux Aeterna

Kenneth Leighton

• Alleluia, Amen - Baritone solo, SATB and organ. 1962 anthem from one of the UK's top 20th century church composers
• The Beauty of Holiness - anthem for SATB, soprano solo (or children's semi-chorus) and organ
• Drop, drop slow tears - quite difficult but intensely moving modern anthem
• Give me the wings of faith
• Let all the world in every corner sing

Sven Lekberg

• The Truth of the Lord Endureth for Ever - SATB unaccompanied anthem

Franz Liszt

• Pater Noster & Qui Seminant in Lacrimis - two motets for SATB and organ

Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Pie Jesu - the famous movement from Lloyd Webber's Requiem, for either 2 sopranos or soprano and treble with SATB chorus

James MacMillan

• Christus Vincit - big forces (soprano solo and double SATB) required for this impressive anthem
• On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin - SATB and organ arrangement of the 17th century words
• Tremunt Videntes Angeli - anther chunky anthem (double SATB unaccompanied) from MacMillan

Richard Marlow

• Veni, Creator Spiritus - soprano solo and double SATB unaccompanied anthem for Pentecost

Pietro Mascagni

• O Rejoice That the Lord has Arisen - SATB

William Mathias

• As Truly as God is our Father - SATB and organ anthem
• St Bartholomew's Prayer - SSATB unaccompanied anthem

J. H. Maunder

• Christ is Risen - Easter SATB and organ anthem from Stainer's rival

Peter Maxwell Davies

• Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates - bouncy SATB and organ anthem with attractive off-beat rhythms

Felix Mendelssohn

• Above All Praise and All Majesty - double SATB and optional organ accompaniment for this Ascension Day anthem
• Come Unto Him - SATB and piano arrangement of the chorus from Hymn of Praise
• Hear my prayer - more than a little gooey, but still popular
• How Lovely are the Messengers - SATB and piano anthem
• If With All Your Hearts - SATB and piano arrangement of the chorus from Elijah

Monteverdi

• Beatus Vir - setting for SSATTBB

• Magnificat - from the Vespers and simply delightful
• Vespers

Philip Moore

• O Quam Gloriosum - SATB/organ setting of the antiphon for All Saints

Norman Morris

• In Heavenly Love Abiding - soprano solo, SATB choir and keyboard

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Alleluja - SATB and piano
• Ave Verum - the classic simple anthem in SSA arrangement
• Ave Verum - the classic simple anthem in full SATB arrangement (but consider the Oxford Easy Anthem book with this and many more)

Edward W. Naylor

• God of Our Fathers, Known of Old - SATB setting of Kipling's Recessional

Giovanni Palestrina

• Adoramus Te - SATB unaccompanied
• Alma Redemptoris Mater - SATB
• Assumpta Est Maria (ed. Davison) - SSATTB
• Crucem Sanctam Subiit - SSATB (ed. Steele)
• Dum Complerentur - SAATTB
• Dum Ergo Essent - SAATTB
• Exsultate Deo - SAATB
• Gloria Patri - short Gloria for double SATB choir (ed. Damrosch)
• Motets - Ave Maria, Benedicta Sit Sancta Trinitas, In Diebus Illis, Lapidabant Stephanum, Loquebantur Variis Linguis, O Rex Gloriae, Valde Honorandus Est
• O Bone Jesu - SATB unaccompanied
• Quadcumque Ligaveris - SSATBB
• Rorate Coeli - SSATB
• Sicut Cervus - SATB unaccompanied
• Sitivit Anima Mea - SATB unaccompanied
• Stabat Mater Dolorosa
• Super Flumina Babylonis - SATB motet from the psalm
• Surge, Illuminare Jerusalem (ed Petti) - motet for Epiphany for two SATB choirs
• Tu Es Petrus

Hubert Parry

• I was glad - Parry's soaring coronation anthem, sometimes used at weddings, is definitely a piece for big occasions

Robert Pearsall

• Tu Es Petrus - probably best known for his arrangement of In Dulce Jubilo, and the exquisite part song Lay a Garland, Pearsall could also produce a mean anthem - here for double unaccompanied SATB
• Two Introits - Blessed Word of God and Therefore We Before Him Bending for SATB with organ

Henry Purcell

• Beati omnes
• Blow up the trumpet
• Hear my prayer, O Lord - SSAATTBB and organ
• I was glad
• My beloved spake
• My heart is inditing
• O God, thou art my God
• O sing unto the Lord
• Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem
• Rejoice in the Lord alway (complete)
• Rejoice in the Lord alway (abridged)
• Remember not, Lord, our offences
• Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

Roger Quilter

• Non Nobis Domine - SATB and piano anthem

John Redford

see Anon

Joaquin Rodrigo

• Ave Maria - unaccompanied SSATB setting by the man better known for his guitar/instrumental work

John Rutter

• A Clare Benediction - (Unison) - easy anthem with an optional second part
• A Clare Benediction - (SSA) - easy anthem in slightly richer setting
• A Clare Benediction - (SATB) - easy anthem in slightly richer setting
• A Gaelic Blessing - (unison) - probably Rutter's most popular anthem with its theme of "deep peace", but go for the SATB version if you've the resources
• A Gaelic Blessing - (SSA) - probably Rutter's most popular anthem with its theme of "deep peace"
• A Gaelic Blessing - (SATB) - probably Rutter's most popular anthem with its theme of "deep peace"
• A Prayer of St Patrick - unaccompanied SATB setting of words from the ancient St Patrick's Breastplate
• All Creature of Our God and King - SATB choir and congregation version of the well-known hymn
• All Things Bright and Beautiful - (Unison) - simple, flowing unison setting
• All Things Bright and Beautiful - (SATB) - four part arrangement of the original unison version
• Anthems Collection - good value collection of 11 anthems including God be in my Head and The Lord Bless You and Keep You
• As the Bridegroom to his Chosen - SATB and organ setting of these striking words
• Be Thou My Vision - SATB and piano/organ arrangement of the traditional Irish hymn
• Christ the Lord is Risen Again - SATB and organ Easter anthem
• Come Down, O Love Divine - unaccompanied double SATB setting of the hymn
• For the Beauty of the Earth (SSAA)
• For the Beauty of the Earth (SATB)
• God be in My Head (SSA) - simple unaccompanied setting of the familiar words
• God be in My Head (SATB) - four part unaccompanied setting of the familiar words
• Go Forth into the World in Peace - SATB and organ setting of the 1928 Common Prayer dismissal
• The Heavenly Aeroplane - children's anthem for two upper voices and piano
• The Heavenly Aeroplane - SATB version of the children's anthem
• How Firm a Foundation - SATB and organ setting of early American hymn, with optional congregation part
• Hymn to the Creator of Light - double SATB unaccompanied anthem - difficult for Rutter
• I believe in Springtime - lively anthem for unison children's choir and piano with optional SATB
• I will sing with the Spirit - 2 part anthem suitable for Pentecost or general use
• I will sing with the Spirit - SATB version of the anthem suitable for Pentecost or general use
• Let us Go in Peace - SATB and piano anthem from the hymn
• Look at the World - (Unison or SATB) - easy harvest anthem, ideal for a children's choir, also suitable for general use
• O Be Joyful in the Lord - SATB and organ setting of psalm 100
• O Clap Your Hands - lively SATB and organ setting of psalm 47
• Open Thou Mine Eyes - unaccompanied SATB anthem
• Pie Jesu - Soprano solo, SATB and organ (from the Requiem)
• Praise the Lord, O My Soul - SATB and organ setting of psalm 146
• Psalm 150 - three soprano solos, SATB arrangement of this jubilant psalm
• The Lord Bless You and Keep You (SATB)
• The Lord Bless You and Keep You (SA)
• The Lord is my Shepherd - SATB and organ setting of the 23rd psalm
• The Peace of God - SSA anthem, suitable for younger choirs
• The Peace of God - SATB and organ anthem
• Thy Perfect Love - SATB and organ anthem
• Veni Sancte Spiritus - SATB and organ anthem, suitable for Pentecost
• When the Saints Go Marching In - lively Dixieland SATB arrangement with piano or orchestra. Technically a song, but could be used as an anthem

Franz Schubert

• Psalm 23 (The Lord is My Shepherd) - arrangement for SSAA and piano

John Sheppard

• Haec Dies - SATTBB anthem
• The Lord's Prayer - SAATB anthem

Caleb Simper

• Break forth into Joy
• King of Kings - triumphant SATB anthem from this once famous, now obscure Victorian. See our Simper page for more information on him

John Stainer

• God so loved the world

Charles Villiers Stanford

• Beati Quorum Via - gorgeous, rippling anthem: Stanford's greatest. Unaccompanied SSATBB
• God is Our Hope and Strength - SATB and piano/organ anthem of praise
• How beauteous are the feet
• O For a Closer Walk With God - SATB and organ anthem
• O praise God (Psalm 150)
• The Lord is my shepherd

Thomas Tallis

• Dum transisset sabbatum
• Hear the voice and prayer
• If ye love me (AATB) - lovely Tallis anthem in the original men's voices setting
• If ye love me (arranged for SATB) - lovely Tallis anthem, originally for men's voices
• In Ieiunio et Fletu - one of Tallis's less performed, but still striking unaccompanied SAATB anthems
• Laudate Dominum
• O Lord, In Thee is all my Trust - unaccompanied SATB from the Tudor master
• O Sacrum Convivium - unaccompanied SATB motet

John Tavener

• Canticle of the Mother of God - for soprano solo and SATB choir
• Funeral Ikos - stunning, repetitive yet moving work
• The Lamb one of Tavener's most approachable anthems, originally came to fame through being used in the Orange TV advert
• Mother and Child - A striking piece for SATB divisi, organ and Hindu temple gong
• Song for Athene - used to great effect at funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
• Thunder Entered Her  - a divine allegory for tenor and bass soloists, SATB choir and organ
• The Tyger  - Blake's words and linked to the Lamb in its last chords
• Two hymns for the Mother of God

Victoria

• O vos omnes - exquisite SATB anthem

Walford Davies

• God be in My Head

William Walton

• Set me as a Seal upon thine Heart - Walton's striking unaccompanied anthem for soprano and tenor soloists and SATB choir

Thomas Weelkes

• O Lord, Grant the King a Long Life - SSAATBB and organ anthem from one of the Tudor greats

Judith Weir

• Love Bade me Welcome - a setting of George Herbert's poem for unaccompanied SSATBB by one of the UK's top female organists

Samuel Sebastian Wesley

• Ascribe unto the Lord
• Cast me not away
• Blessed by the God and Father - a real delight of its time
• I am thine, O save me
• Lead me Lord - very simple, very short - good for beginners
• O give thanks unto the Lord
• O how amiable are thy dwellings
• O Lord my God
• Praise the Lord, O my soul
• The Lord hath been mindful
• Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
• Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (SATB arrangement)
• Wash my throughly

Samuel Wesley

• In exitu Israel - the epic SSAATTBB anthem in English

Jonathan Willcocks

• Blessing - SATB and organ
• Lord, Make Me an Instrument - gentle SATB and organ anthem from Lux Perpetua

Arthur Wills

• Two Latin motets

Charles Wood

We don't have a listing for Charles Wood's classic O thou the Central Orb, but it can be found at the RSCM Music Direct site.

H. H. Woodward

• The Sun Shall be No More SATB and organ accompaniment anthem for All Saints or general use