Hymns For All Seasons

Cantus Choro

Cantus Choro has established a fine reputation for its broadcasts for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and recitals of sacred and secular music. Directed by Peter Chapman, with Norman Kaye on the organ.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.

Peter Chapman

Peter Chapman (1922–2006) - was a choral conductor, singer and music teacher, achieved renown for his direction of the Choir of Canterbury Fellowship and of Cantus Choro in Melbourne for 25 years.

Alfred Ernest Floyd

Alfred Ernest Floyd's sacred writing serves the church year and the organ loft: the carol Cold and Dark is Holy Night, Church Preludes for small instruments, and hymnody from Advent through All Saints.

George Herbert

George Herbert’s sacred lyrics speak with plain force and metaphysical wit to the soul’s traffic with God. Shaped as altars and wings on the page, they have drawn composers for centuries and still ring out as hymns and art songs of rare intimacy.

Norman Kaye

Norman Kaye (1927 - 2007) was a distinguished organist and actor. Norman studied organ with Pierre Cochereau of Notre Dame de Paris and won a Premier Prix for conducting at the Nice Conservatoire.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams was born on 12 October 1872 in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, where his father, the Reverend Arthur Vaughan Williams (the surname Vaughan Williams is an unhyphenated double-barrelled name of Welsh origin), was vicar.

Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley's hymns still carry congregations and choirs: bold doctrinal verse made for singing, from Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Christ the Lord Is Risen Today to Love Divine and Jesu, Lover of My Soul.

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier’s verse lives on in the hymn book: calm, plain-spoken lines that ask for stillness, pity, and fellowship. Dear Lord and Father of Mankind and O Brother Man are the texts most often sung from his work.

John Henry Arnold

Robert Boughen

Robert Boughen's sacred writing and arrangements give choirs sturdy, singable music for the Christian year, from Advent hymns and Easter triumphs to a Christmas Gloria that rings with festive clarity.

Allen William Chatfield

William Damon

George Job Elvey

David Evans

David Evans wrote and harmonised hymn tunes that still shape congregational singing, among them the familiar setting of Be Thou My Vision and Lucerna Laudoniae for For the Beauty of the Earth.

Basil Harwood

William Henry Havergal

Bishop Reginald Heber

Martin Herbst

Bishop William Walsham How

Stephen Langton

Bishop Richard Mant

Edward Miller

Edward Miller wrote the hymn tunes Rockingham and Galway, still sung to Watts’s “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” and Wesley’s “A charge to keep I have”. His church music shaped parish psalmody across the English-speaking world.

Dean Milman

John Mason Neale

John Mason Neale's hymn translations and carols remain staples of English-speaking worship and Christmas repertoire, from Good King Wenceslas to O come, O come, Emmanuel and other medieval texts he brought into common use.

Sydney Nicholson

Sydney Nicholson's hymn tunes and arrangements serve the Anglican liturgy across the church year, from Advent processions to Easter triumph. His writing for parish choirs is practical, singable and built for congregational worship.

Francis Pott

Francis Pott is credited as songwriter on Move collections of church music: contemporary religious songs that mix jazz, folk and traditional colour, and hymns that follow the Christian year from Advent through Easter to All Saints.

Prudentius

Richard Redhead

John Rutter

John Rutter writes and arranges choral music that sits easily with choirs and congregations: Christmas carols, hymns for the church year, and extended sacred works whose melodies are built for the human voice.

George Hunt Smyttan

Mark Summerbell

Mark Summerbell works as an arranger of traditional hymns for choir and brass, and as a conductor of contemporary chamber scores that set saxophone against piano, percussion and ensemble colour.

Melchior Vulpius

Isaac Watts

Samuel Webbe

Christian Friedrich Witt