The founder of Hymns Without Words, Richard Irwin, is fighting stage 4 cancer and updates to the website and responses to queries may be delayed as a result.
Richard is raising funds for Cancer Research through sales of his acclaimed album Apprentice to Master: The Complete Preludes and Fugues for Organ, please support him in this endeavour – worldwide delivery available.
Hymns Without Words: Introduction
Hymns Without Words is a free service providing high quality recording of hymns for use by congregations and choirs, including on-line services. Feel free to browse and download the tracks for your personal or church use. A complete A-Z list is available here. Music for instrumental interludes can be found here. Please subscribe to our occasional newsletter to keep in touch with latest developments.
If you are interested in original hymns and other works by founder Richard Irwin, please follow this link.
Latest Additions
- BWV 532 J.S. Bach Prelude And Fugue In D Major Organ Recording
- BWV 531 J.S. Bach Prelude And Fugue In C Major Organ Recording
- In Our Day of Thanksgiving (Was Lebet Was Schwebet, Organ, 4 Verses)
- See There a Manger Filled with Hay (The Angels Sang, Small Consort, 3 Verses) Free Download
- Lumen Christi (Light of Christ, Live Performance, 3 Verses) MP3 Dowload
- One More Step Along The World (Southcote, Pop Brass, 5 Verses)
- Amidst Thy Wrath Remember Love (Lamport, Organ, 5 Verses)
- Shadowing Sorrows (All the Way Over, Organ, 3 Verses) Free MP3
- Ye Sheep of Jesus Sweetly Sing (Saxby, Organ, 4 Verses)
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The Hymns Without Words Lectionary
Season After Pentecost
- Sunday 24th September – Year A Proper 20, Ordinary 25, Trinity 16, 17th Sunday after Pentecost
- Friday 29th September – Michaelmas Day, Harvest Moon.
- Sunday 1st October (or alternatives) – Harvest Festival
- Sunday 1st October – Year A Proper 21, Ordinary 26, Trinity 17, 18th Sunday after Pentecost
- Sunday 8th October – Year A Proper 22, Ordinary 27, Trinity 18, 19th Sunday after Pentecost
- Saturday 14th October – Thanksgiving Canada
- Sunday 13th October – Year A Proper 23, Ordinary 28, Trinity 19, 20th Sunday after Pentecost
- Sunday 22nd October – Year A Proper 24, Ordinary 29, Trinity 20, 21st Sunday after Pentecost
- Sunday 29th October – Year A Proper 25, Ordinary 30, Trinity 21, 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
- Wednesday 1st November –Year A All Saints’ Day
- Thursday 2nd November – All Souls’ Day
- Sunday 5th November – Year A All Saints’ Day
- Sunday 5th November – Year A Proper 26, Ordinary 29, Fourth Sunday Before Advent
- Sunday 12th November – Remembrance Sunday
- Sunday 12th November – Proper 27, Ordinary 32, 3rd Sunday Before Advent
- Sunday 19th November – Year A – 2nd Sunday Before Advent
- Sunday 20th November – Feast of Christ The King, The Reign of Christ
- Thursday 30th November – Feast of St Andrew
Advent Year B
- Sunday 3rd December – Year B, 1st Sunday of Advent
- Sunday 10th December – Year B, 2nd Sunday of Advent
- Sunday 17th December – Year B, 3rd Sunday of Advent
- Carol Services
- Christingle Service
- Sunday 24th December – Year B, 4th Sunday of Advent, Christmas Eve
Hymns For General Use
- General / Anytime
- Communion / Eucharist
- Evensong / Evening Prayer
- Funerals
- Morning Prayer
- Ordination
- Service Of Healing
- Vows
- Weddings
A New Mass
Richard Irwin’s son Conrad has written a new mass for four unaccompanied voices. It was premiered in San Francisco in 2022 with Eric Choate conducting.
Click on this link to listen to a recording beautifully conducted by David Simkins with professional singers from Bristol University. The recording can be used as an accompaniment to a communion service, or you can download the score for free. A Mass In Waltz Time
New Hymns
There are many thousands of hymns, and we at Hymns Without Words have only recorded a small fraction. Therefore, we have decided to open the platform to other artists. If you have recorded a hymn that you believe should be included in our collection, then please submit it here. Request a new recording here.
As Bright as a Rose Baptismal Anthem
Written as a christening present for a granddaughter, As Bright As A Rose is a beautiful Baptismal Anthem for SATB, conducted and recorded by David Simkins.
Find it on Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal and Greg Krycinski from Luda Kot from Pixabay
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