Free Recordings of Hymns and Carols
Please Listen to our latest release Lux Aeterna.
Sung beautifully by soprano Kinvara Jenkins
Welcome to Hymns Without Words, a free resource for churches and congregations around the world providing free downloads hymns and carols for use in services, including live streams from Zoom, YouTube etc. They are recorded without words and suitable for congregational singing.
Recordings are often refreshed and new recordings added, so please keep coming back to see what is new. Click Here for a list of all hymns.
Seasonal Selections
- Sunday 28th February – Year B – 2nd Sunday of Lent
- Sunday 7th March – Year B – 3rd Sunday of Lent
- Sunday 14th March – Year B – 4th Sunday of Lent or Mothering Sunday
- Sunday 21st March – Year B – 5th Sunday of Lent
- Sunday 28th March – Year B – Palm Sunday – Litany Of The Passion
- Monday 29th March – Holy Week Monday
- Tuesday 30th March – Holy Week Tuesday
- Wednesday 31st March – Holy Week Wednesday
- Thursday 1st April – Maundy Thursday
- Friday 2nd April – Good Friday
- Saturday 3rd April – Holy Saturday / Easter Vigil
- Sunday 4th April – Easter Sunday
Newest Recordings
- Come Ye Faithful Raise The Strain (Ave Virgo Virginum, Organ, 4 Verses)
- Fe Gawn Fendith Cariad Pur (Salzburg, Organ and Trumpet) – Our first Welsh language hymn
- All Praise To Thee For Thou, O King Divine (Engelberg, Organ)
- Abba Father Let Me Be – or our Mothering Sunday Version Dearest Mother
- Farmer Farmer Why Do You Plough (Small Ensemble, 4 Verses)
- I Danced In The Morning (Lord Of The Dance)
- Kinvara Jenkins Sing Lux Aeterna
- We Walk By Faith And Not By Sight (Beati Immaculati, Organ, 5 Verses)
- O My Saviour Lifted (North Coates, Organ, 5 Verses) – Hymns Without Words
- At The Name Of Jesus (Camberwell, Organ, 6 Verses)
- My Song Is Love Unknown (Love Unknown – 7 Verses) – Organ
- O Spirit Of The Living God (Winchester New, Organ, 5 verses)
Hymns Available For Online Services
The founding principle of Hymns Without Words was to provide free access to quality recordings of hymns for churches who do not have live musicians in order to accompany their congregations during services. We am very happy to support online services, including those via platforms such as YouTube and Zoom as a way of meeting the pastoral needs of local communities. Please note if you use a recording on YouTube you may find there is a copyright claim for your use of it. This is normal and should not be of concern. Useful advice on licensing can be found Here.
All I ask is an acknowledgement which is usually on the page for the individual hymns, for example: From HymnsWithoutWords.com – Performance ℗ 2020 Richard M S Irwin. All rights reserved. ISRC UKTU21900135
If you are unclear as to what to do, please Contact Us. If you would prefer not to download the tracks you can also find 100’s of our hymns on Amazon, Apple Music, Deezer, Google, iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify and other online services.
Main Links
- Please Click Here for a list of hymns available through this website.
- Please Click Here to request the addition of a hymn not yet available.
- Please Click Here to subscribe to our occasional newsletter. (Archive)
- Please Click Here to order a Bespoke CD for a service.
- For my latest recordings please follow Richard Irwin on: SoundCloud / Twitter / Facebook / Apple Music / Spotify
Android Users
How to simply set up Hymns Without Words like an Android App on your smart phone: open https://play.hymnswithoutwords.com in Chrome and click on “Add To Home Screen”. Use Hymns A-Z from the menu to quickly navigate to the hymn you want to play.