Hymns on Sunday

This Choral Eucharist comes from Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland with the Very Reverend Ross Bay, Bishop of Auckland, as presider, with the Reverend Bruce Keeley as preacher. Read more Audio, Gallery

Today we're marking Palm Sunday with a great selection of uplifting and triumphal hymns. The Choir of Westminster Abbey sings Rejoice! The Lord is King, there's a spiritual from the Mormon Tabernacle… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Hymns for the fifth Sunday in Lent include My song is love unknown, Glory be to Jesus, and Isaac Watts' great Easter hymn When I survey the wondrous cross.

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In today's programme we have some communion hymns, there's a psalm paraphrase from the Scottish Psalter, and we'll hear from some hymn writers who prove… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In this programme we've two settings of Psalm 130 to mark the Third Sunday in Lent, as well as some Irish hymns to for St Patrick's Day (17 March). Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Hymns for the Second Sunday in Lent include The Lent Prose and My faith looks up to thee, and we've a Taize chant from Margaret Rizza and the St Thomas… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. It's the first Sunday in Lent, and our hymns with a Lenten theme include Forty days and forty nights. We're also marking St David's Day (1 March) with a… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. It's a bit of a classical composers' Who's Who this week, with texts set to tunes by the likes of Handel, Holst and Haydn as well as some by composers… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns, including a hymn from the 13th century and a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley's well-known text Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. Read more Audio

We've several hymns by the great 18th century Non-Conformist hymn writer Isaac Watts in this week's programme, as well as one by his friend, Philip Doddridge. There are also some more recently written… Read more Audio

Our final Summer Requests programme includes a 16th century prayer set to music by John Rutter, Be still, my soul sung by the English boys' choir Libera, and we highlight an important celebration for… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Listener requests continue this week, and include the modern classic In Christ alone, as well as Isaac Watts' hymn When I survey the wondrous cross sung in… Read more Audio