Hymns
Hymns on Sunday, 22 January 2023
There's nothing quite like the sound of a Welsh male voice choir singing hymns! Hear the Treorchy Male Choir sing Isaac Watts' hymn When I survey the wondrous cross in this week's programme of… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 15 January 2023
A setting of Psalm 23, a hymn by New Zealand writer Joy Cowley and a confirmation hymn - just some of the listener requests in this week's programme. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 8 January 2023
Hymns sung at weddings and memories of enthusiastic school singing are some of the inspirations behind our listener requests this week. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 1 January 2023
Summer Requests programmes begin today, with listener choices including All creatures of our God and king and In Christ alone. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 25 December 2022
Lots of well-known favourites in this Christmas Day edition of Hymns on Sunday. Sing along with choirs from New Zealand and around the world. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 18 December 2022
Carols for the Fourth Sunday in Advent include Love came down at Christmas and It came upon a midnight clear. And we remember New Zealand hymn writer and composer Colin Gibson MNZM. Video, Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 11 December
Rejoice! It's Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday in Advent (Gaudete is 'rejoice' in Latin). Hymns include Tell out my soul, the Pohutukawa Carol and an arrangement of The First Nowell for brass band. Video, Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 4 December 2022
When hymn writer Shirley Murray was on an editorial panel preparing a collection of NZ-written carols in the 1990s, she found there weren't many with an Advent theme. So she wrote one! You can hear… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 27 November 2022
The season of Advent begins today – a time of waiting and expectation leading up to Christmas. Sing along to favourite Advent hymns including O come, Emmanuel and Come, thou long-expected Jesus. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 20 November 2022
The Feast of Christ the King is a relatively recent addition to the liturgical calendar, introduced by Pope Pius XI in 1925. We’re celebrating the occasion with hymns including Rejoice! The Lord is… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 13 November 2022
November 13 is World Day of the Poor in the Catholic liturgical calendar. We’re marking the date with Graham Kendrick’s Beauty for Brokenness and Bread for the World by Bernadette Farrell. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 6 November 2022
The hymns of 20th century hymn writer Fred Kaan have a strong focus on peace, unity and social justice. You can hear some in this week’s programme: For the healing of the nations and O Holy Spirit. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 30 October 2022
Hymns for All Saints' Day and Reformation Day in this week's programme, and there's a spiritual from Auckland's The Graduate Choir which is celebrating its 21st birthday this year. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 23 October 2022
We’re marking World Mission Sunday this week with hymns including Dan Schutte’s I, the Lord of sea and sky and the traditional spiritual Who’ll be a witness for my Lord? Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 16 October 2022
Brass bands and hymn tunes go so well together! In this week’s programme, you can hear a spine-tingling rendition of Joseph Parry’s Aberystwyth played by Christchurch band Woolston Brass. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 9 October 2022
We're celebrating 150 years since the birth of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in this week's programme. Find out how this 'cheerful agnostic' had a major impact on 20th century western… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 2 October 2022
Hymns with a focus on St Francis of Assisi and nature this week. The patron saint of ecology’s feast day is on 4 October and marks the end of the Season of Creation in the church calendar. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 25 September 2022
Lancelot Andrewes was a 16th century English bishop and one of a group of Church of England scholars appointed to compile the King James version of the Bible. You can hear John Rutter’s beautiful… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 18 September 2022
Henry Lyte’s hymn Praise, my soul, the king of heaven was one of Queen Elizabeth II’s favourites – you can hear a beautifully stately rendition by the Huddersfield Choral Society in this week’s… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 11 September 2022
It’s hymns ancient and modern this week. We’ve a setting of Hail, gladdening light (a hymn from the 3rd or 4th century), and In You we live written in 2010 by Sue Mepham from Flagstaff Community… Audio