Sing Out With Joy

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.

Franz Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms.

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

Hubert Parry's music still fills cathedrals and coronations. Best known for the choral song Jerusalem, the coronation anthem I was glad and the hymn tune Repton, his writing joins ceremonial splendour to a humane, singable warmth.

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.

Francis of Assisi

George Hugh Bourne

Mary Elizabeth Byrne

Richard Connolly

Richard Connolly writes hymnody for the Australian Hymn Book repertoire. His 'Be Your Kingly Power' appears among familiar congregational tunes on these Cantus Choro recordings, set for choir and organ with clean, lively harmony that serves the words.

William Cowper

Samuel Crossman

Samuel Crossman's hymn texts from the 1660s still sound in churches and on record. My Song is Love Unknown is the best known: a spare Passion meditation whose plain diction has drawn composers from John Ireland to later arrangers.

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.

Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons wrote English madrigals, verse anthems, full anthems and keyboard music at the hinge of Renaissance and Baroque practice: lucid polyphony, rhetorical force without bombast, and lines that lodge in the ear like The Silver Swan.

John Goss

John Goss wrote English church music marked by graceful vocal lines and careful word-setting. His hymn tune for Praise, my soul, the King of heaven remains one of the most familiar congregational melodies in the Anglican repertory.

Eleanor Hull

Eleanor Hull wrote the English versification of the Old Irish prayer Rop tú mo baile, known as the hymn Be Thou My Vision. The 1912 text is sung as standard congregational hymnody on recordings of favourite hymns.

John Ireland

John Ireland wrote English art songs, piano miniatures and sacred choral music in a personal Impressionist vein, closer to Debussy and Ravel than to the folk-song school. His hymn Love Unknown and the carol The Holy Boy remain widely sung.

Henry Francis Lyte

Sir George Martin

Professor James McAuley

James Montgomery

James Montgomery's hymn and carol texts remain central to congregational singing. His words are heard here among favourite hymns and Christmas carols, including Angels from the Realms of Glory.

John Newton

Thomas Olivers

Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

Rowland H. Pritchard

Walter Chalmers Smith

Isaac Smith

Isaac William