Great Sacred Music: Suffering

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Suffering.

Music:

O sacred head, sore wounded (J.S. Bach)
Thou knowest Lord (Purcell)
Surely he hath born our griefs (Handel)
By gracious powers (William Bradley Roberts)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

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Great Sacred Music: Trinity

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Trinity.

Music:

Holy, holy, holy (t. Nicea)
‘Sanctus’ from Mass in D (Dvořák)
‘O Trinity, O Unity’ from I saw the Lord (Stainer)
God’s Companions (t. Ein Feste Burg / Wells)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

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Great Sacred Music: Witness

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Witness.

Music:

Give me justice (James MacMillan)
A Prayer from South Africa (James Whitbourn)
He who would valiant be
Most glorious Lord of Lyfe (William Lloyd Webber)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

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Great Sacred Music: Incarnation

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Incarnation.

Music:

In the beginning was the word (Carson Cooman)
Of the Father’s heart begotten
Credo from ‘Little Organ Mass’ (Haydn)
O radiant dawn (James MacMillan)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

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Great Sacred Music: Creation

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Creation.

Music:

All you works of God (Andrew Earis)
In the beginning from ‘The Creation’ (Haydn)
O Lord of every shining constellation (t. Highwood)
Achieved is the glorious work from ‘The Creation’ (Haydn)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

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Great Sacred Music: Last Things

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Last Things.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with St Martin’s Voices, directed by Gabriella Noble and accompanied by Ben Giddens.

Music:

I heard a voice from heaven (Goss)
And I saw a new heaven (Bainton)
The River of the Water of Life (Malcolm Archer)
Hallelujah from ‘Messiah’ (Handel)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

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Great Sacred Music: Israel

The next in our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices.

This week’s theme is Israel.

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with St Martin’s Voices, directed by Gabriella Noble and accompanied by Ben Giddens.

Music:

Come thou long expected Jesus
He, watching over Israel from ‘Elijah’ (Mendelssohn)
Benedictus (Philip Moore)
Shall we the God of Israel fear? from ‘Esther’ (Handel)

The music was recorded in person at St Martin-in-the-Fields, in strict compliance with the current government guidelines on professional singing in church and social distancing.

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Great Sacred Music: Holiness

The seventeenth of our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices from their own homes.

This week’s theme is Holiness.

Music:
Spirit of holiness, wisdom and faithfulness
Sanctus from ‘Mass in G’ (Schubert)
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Parry)
O for a closer walk with God (Stanford)

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Great Sacred Music: Mission

The eighteenth of our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices from their own homes.

This week’s theme is Mission.

Music:
God’s gonna set this world on fire (arr. Hogan)
Lord you give the great commission
Let all the world (Vaughan Williams)
Go forth into the world in peace (John Rutter)

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Great Sacred Music: Fellowship

The nineteenth of our weekly online Great Sacred Music series, launched in light of St Martin’s temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Great Sacred Music podcast will be uploaded every Thursday at 1.00 pm with new music recorded each week by St Martin’s Voices from their own homes.

This week’s theme is Fellowship.

Music:

Brother sister let me serve you
Behold the Tabernacle – William Harris
In Christ there is no east or west
Put peace into each other’s hands

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