Category: Classical

All hail the power of Jesus’ name (Miles Lane – 6 Verses) – Brass Band By special request of Rev’d Dr Jules Gomes BA BD MTh PhD (Cantab), Pastor St Augustine’s Church, Douglas, Isle of Man Tune: Miles Lane Meter: 86 86 with Repeat Style: Classical Composer: William Shrubsole (1760 – 1806) Arrangement: Copyright © 2017 Richard M S Irwin (b. 1955) Lyricist: Edward Perronet (1726 – 1792) Church Year: General, Christ the King, Palm Sunday, Easter Music and Lyrics Copyright ...
Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire (Crediton) Hymn: Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire – Lyrics Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire, Let us Thine influence prove: Source of the old prophetic fire, Fountain of life and love. Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by Thee, The prophets wrote and spoke; Unlock the truth, Thyself the key, Unseal the sacred book. Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, Brood o’er our nature’s night; On our disordered ...
Fill your hearts with joy and gladness (Ode to Joy) Lyrics Recording Details Tune: Ode to Joy Meter: 87 87 D Style: Classical Church Year: Harvest Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Arranger: Richard M S Irwin Lyricist: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Music Copyright Public Domain Lyrics Copyright Revd. Timothy Dudley-Smith Performance Copyright ℗ 2018 Richard M S Irwin, Certain rights reserved.
Glorious things of Thee are spoken (Austria) Hymn – Glorious things of thee are spoken – Lyrics Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He, Whose Word cannot be broken, Formed thee for His own abode. On the Rock of Ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose? With salvation’s walls surrounded, Thou may’st smile at all thy foes. See! the streams of living waters, Springing from eternal ...
Hark, the glad sound! (Crediton) – Organ Lyrics Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, the Saviour promised long! Let ev’ry heart prepare a throne, and ev’ry voice a song. He comes the pris’ners to release, in Satan’s bondage held; the gates of brass before Him burst, the iron fetters yield. He comes to free the captive mind, * where evil thoughts control, and for the darkness of the blind gives light that makes ...
Jesus came down from above (St Bees – 4 verses) – Organ Lyrics Jesus came down from above, Telling us of God’s great love; He’s our brother, Lord and friend, And on him we can depend. He has paid the ransom cost, To redeem the poor and lost; Lame men walk and blind men see, When He calls them, “Follow Me.” When His promises we claim, He will set our hearts aflame; He will grant us when we ...
Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) Lo, He comes with clouds descending Lyrics Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for mortal sinners slain; Thousand thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of His train: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ appears on earth to reign. Every eye shall now behold Him Robed in dreadful majesty; We who set at naught and sold Him, Pierced and nailed Him to the tree, Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, ...
Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah) Hymn – Love’s redeeming work is done – Lyrics Love’s redeeming work is done, fought the fight, the battle won. Lo, our Sun’s eclipse is o’er! Lo, he sets in blood no more! Vain the stone, the watch, the seal! Christ has burst the gates of hell; death in vain forbids him rise; Christ has opened paradise. Lives again our victorious King; where, O death, ...
O for a thousand tongues to sing (Lyngham) – Brass Band See Also Recording for Organ Lyrics 1. O for a thousand tongues to sing My dear Redeemer’s praise, The glories of my God and king, The triumphs of his grace! 2. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, That bids our sorrows cease; ‘Tis music in the sinner’s ears, ‘Tis life, and health, and peace. 3. He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He sets the prisoner ...
O God of Bethel, by whose hand (Martyrdom) O God of Bethel, by whose hand – Lyrics O God of Bethel, by Whose hand Thy people still are fed, Who through this weary pilgrimage Hast all our fathers led. Our vows, our prayers, we now present Before Thy throne of grace; God of our forebears, be the God Of their succeeding race. Through each mysterious path of life Our wandering footsteps guide; Give us ...
O happy band of pilgrims (Knecht – Kocher) Hymn Lyrics: O happy band of pilgrims O happy band of pilgrims, If onward you will tread, With Jesus as your Fellow, To Jesus as your Head. The cross that Jesus carried He carried as your due; The crown that Jesus weareth He weareth it for you. The faith by which ye see Him, The hope in which ye yearn, The love that through all troubles To ...
O what their joy and their glory must be (O Quanta Qualia) Hymn – O what their joy and their glory must be – Lyrics Oh, what the joy and the glory must be, Those endless Sabbaths the blessèd ones see! Crown for the valiant, to weary ones rest; God shall be all, and in all ever blest. What are the Monarch, His court, and His throne? What are the peace and the ...
Praise Jesus, Reigning Now On Earth (Richmond – 4 Verses) – Organ Lyrics Praise Jesus, reigning now on Earth, High-seated on the throne; Praise Him who grants us second birth, Then takes us for His own. Though weary in our earthly life, Now we have been set free; Freed from our troubles, toil and strife, Now thus will ever be. So now we sing eternal praise, To Christ who is our King; Rejoice and worship all our days, To ...
Praise the Lord, his glories show (Llanfair) Hymn – Praise the Lord, His glories show – Lyrics Praise the Lord, His glories show, alleluia, Saints within His courts below, alleluia, Angels round His throne above, alleluia, All that see and share God’s love: alleluia. Earth to heaven and heaven to earth, alleluia, Tell His wonders, sing His worth, alleluia, Age to age, and shore to shore, alleluia. Praise Him, praise ...
Praise to the Holiest in the height (Richmond) Hymn – Praise to the Holiest – Lyrics Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise: In all His words most wonderful; Most sure in all His ways. O loving wisdom of our God, When all was sin and shame, He, the last Adam, to the fight And to the rescue came. O wisest love! that flesh and blood Which ...
Put thou thy trust in God (Doncaster) Hymn – Put thou thy trust in God – Lyrics Put thou thy trust in God, In duty’s path go on; Walk in His strength with faith and hope, So shall thy work be done. Commit thy ways to Him, Thy works into His hands, And rest on His unchanging Word, Who Heav’n and earth commands. Though years on years roll on, His cov’nant shall ...
Rejoice, the Lord is King (Darwell’s 148th) – 5 Verse version for Brass Band By special request of Rev’d Dr Jules Gomes BA BD MTh PhD (Cantab), Pastor St Augustine’s Church, Douglas, Isle of Man See Also Rejoice, the Lord is King (Darwell’s 148th) – Organ Hymn – Rejoice, the Lord is King – Lyrics Rejoice, the Lord is King! your Lord and King adore; mortals give thanks and sing, and triumph evermore; Lift up your heart, ...
Rejoice, the Lord is King (Darwell’s 148th) – Organ See also Rejoice, the Lord is King (Darwell’s 148th) – Brass Band Lyrics Rejoice, the Lord is King! your Lord and King adore; mortals give thanks and sing, and triumph evermore; Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; rejoice, again I say, rejoice! Jesus, the saviour, reigns, the God of truth and love; when he had purged our stains he took his ...
Rejoice, the Lord is King (Gopsal – 4 verses) – Organ Lyrics Rejoice, the Lord is King! your Lord and King adore; mortals give thanks and sing, and triumph evermore; Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; rejoice, again I say, rejoice! Jesus, the saviour, reigns, the God of truth and love; when he had purged our stains he took his seat above; Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; Rejoice, again ...
Sing to God new songs of worship (Ode to Joy) Hymn – Sing to God new songs of worship – Lyrics Lyrics Copyright Michael Baughen/Jubilate Hymns, Permission being sought to publish. Recording Details Tune: Ode to Joy Meter: 87 87 D Style: Classical Usage: General Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven Aranger: Richard Mark Stephen Irwin Lyricist: Michael Alfred Baughen (b. 1930) Music Copyright Public Domain Lyrics Copyright Michael Baughen/Jubilate Hymns Performance Copyright ℗ 2014 Richard M S Irwin. Certain ...
Take my life and let it be (Innocents) – Organ Hymn – Take my life and let it be – Lyrics 1. Take my life and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; Take my hands and let them move At the impulse of Thy love. 2. Take my feet and let them be Swift and beautiful for Thee; Take my voice and let me sing, Always, only for my King. 3. Take my ...
Take my life and let it be (Nottingham) – Organ Hymn – Take my life and let it be – Lyrics 1. Take my life and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; Take my hands and let them move At the impulse of Thy love. 2. Take my feet and let them be Swift and beautiful for Thee; Take my voice and let me sing, Always, only for my King. 3. Take my ...
Take my life and let it be (St Bees) – Organ Hymn – Take my life and let it be – Lyrics 1. Take my life and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; Take my hands and let them move At the impulse of Thy love. 2. Take my feet and let them be Swift and beautiful for Thee; Take my voice and let me sing, Always, only for my King. 3. Take my ...
The day of resurrection (Ellacombe) Hymn – The day of resurrection – Lyrics The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad; the passover of gladness, the passover of God. From death to life eternal, from earth unto the sky, our Christ hath brought us over, with hymns of victory. Our hearts be pure from evil, that we may see aright the Lord in rays eternal of resurrection light; and listening to his ...
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy (Daily Daily) Hymn – There’s a wideness in God’s mercy – Lyrics There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, Like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness in His justice, Which is more than liberty. There is no place where earth’s sorrows Are more felt than up in Heaven; There is no place where earth’s failings Have such kindly judgment given. But we make His love ...
We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda) – Orchestra Hymn – We have a gospel to proclaim – Lyrics Lyrics Copyright Rev. Edward Burns, Permission being sought to publish. Recording Details Tune: Fulda Meter: LM Style: Classical Usage: General Composer: William Gardiner Orchestral arranger: Richard Mark Stephen Irwin (b. 1955) Lyricist: Edward Joseph Burns (b. 1938) Music Copyright Public Domain Lyrics Copyright Rev. Edward Burns, All Rights Reserved Performance Copyright © 2008 – 2013 Richard M S ...
We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda) – Organ Hymn – We have a gospel to proclaim – Lyrics Lyrics Copyright Rev. Edward Burns, Permission being sought to publish. Recording Details Tune: Fulda Meter: LM Style: Classical Usage: General Composer: William Gardiner Orchestral arranger: Richard Mark Stephen Irwin (b. 1955) Lyricist: Edward Joseph Burns (b. 1938) Music Copyright Public Domain Lyrics Copyright Rev. Edward Burns, All Rights Reserved Performance Copyright © 2008 – 2013 Richard M S ...

Praise Jesus, Reigning Now On Earth (Richmond – 4 Verses) – Organ

Lyrics

Praise Jesus, reigning now on Earth,
High-seated on the throne;
Praise Him who grants us second birth,
Then takes us for His own.

Though weary in our earthly life,
Now we have been set free;
Freed from our troubles, toil and strife,
Now thus will ever be.

So now we sing eternal praise,
To Christ who is our King;
Rejoice and worship all our days,
To Him our tributes bring.

Praise Him below, Praise Him above,
Our songs of joy we’ll sing;
We’ll praise God’s everlasting love,
Praise Jesus Christ, our King!

Recording

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Tune: Richmond
Meter: CM
Style: Classical
Church Year: General
Composer: Thomas Haweis (1724 – 1820) adapted by Samuel Webbe the Younger (1770 – 1843)
Lyricist: Colin Gordon-Farleigh (b. 1943)
Music Public Domain.
Lyrics: Copyright © 2006 Colin Gordon-Farleigh
Performances ℗ 2018 and 2019 Richard M S Irwin, All rights reserved.

Jesus came down from above (St Bees – 4 verses) – Organ

Lyrics

Jesus came down from above,
Telling us of God’s great love;
He’s our brother, Lord and friend,
And on him we can depend.

He has paid the ransom cost,
To redeem the poor and lost;
Lame men walk and blind men see,
When He calls them, “Follow Me.”

When His promises we claim,
He will set our hearts aflame;
He will grant us when we serve,
Blessings more than we deserve.

His the glory, His the praise,
Songs of royal worship raise;
To His feet your tributes bring,
Praise and glorify the King!

Recording

Details

- Album: Wedding Songs
- Tune: Innocents
- Meter: 77 77
- Style: Classical
- Usage: General
- Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1823 – 1876)
- Lyricist: Colin Gordon-Farleigh (b. 1943)
- Music Copyright Public Domain
- Lyrics © 2011 Colin Gordon-Farleigh (b. 1943)
- Performance ℗ 2019 Richard M S Irwin. All rights reserved.
- IRSC: UKTU21900015
- UPC: 5060707370115

Take my life and let it be (St Bees) – Organ

Hymn – Take my life and let it be – Lyrics

1. Take my life and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;
Take my hands and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.

2. Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee;
Take my voice and let me sing,
Always, only for my King.

3. Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee;
Take my silver and my gold,
Not a mite would I withhold.

4. Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in endless praise;
Take my intellect and use
Every pow’r as Thou shalt choose.

5. Take my will and make it Thine,
It shall be no longer mine;
Take my heart, it is Thine own,
It shall be Thy royal throne.

6. Take my love, my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store;
Take myself and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.

Recording

Details

Album: Wedding Songs
Tune: Innocents
Meter: 77 77
Style: Classical
Usage: General, Weddings
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1823 – 1876)
Lyricist: Francis Ridley Havergal (1836 – 1879)
Music and Lyrics Copyright Public Domain
Performance ℗ 2019 Richard M S Irwin. All rights reserved.
IRSC: UKTU21900016
UPC: 5060707370108

Hark, the glad sound! (Crediton) – Organ

Lyrics

Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes,
the Saviour promised long!
Let ev’ry heart prepare a throne,
and ev’ry voice a song.

He comes the pris’ners to release,
in Satan’s bondage held;
the gates of brass before Him burst,
the iron fetters yield.

He comes to free the captive mind, *
where evil thoughts control,
and for the darkness of the blind
gives light that makes them whole.

He comes the broken heart to bind,
the bleeding soul to cure,
and with the treasures of His grace
t’enrich the humbled poor.

Our glad Hosannas, Prince of Peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim;
and heav’n’s eternal arches ring
with Thy beloved Name.

* Many sources omit this verse. Request 5 verse recording to include it.

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Details

Tune: Crediton
Meter: CM
Style: Classical
Church Year: Advent
Composer: Thomas Clark (1775 – 1859)
Harmonised by: Martin Shaw (1875 – 1958)
Lyricist: Philip Doddridge (1702 – 1751)
Lyrics Copyright Public Domain
Harmonisation Copyright Oxford University Press
Performances Copyright ℗ 2018 Richard M S Irwin. Certain rights reserved

Rejoice, the Lord is King (Gopsal – 4 verses) – Organ

Lyrics

Rejoice, the Lord is King! your Lord and King adore;
mortals give thanks and sing, and triumph evermore;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
rejoice, again I say, rejoice!

Jesus, the saviour, reigns, the God of truth and love;
when he had purged our stains he took his seat above;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!

His kingdom cannot fail, he rules both earth and heaven,
the keys of death and hell are to our Jesus given;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!

He sits at God’s right hand till all his foes submit,
and bow to his command, and fall beneath his feet:
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!

Recording

Details

Tune: Gopsal
Meter: 66 66 and Refrain
Verses: 4
Lyricist: Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
Style: Baroque
Church Year: Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, General
Composer: Georg Friderich Händel (1695 – 1759).
Music and Lyrics Copyright Public Domain.
Performance ℗ 2018 Richard M S Irwin. Certain Rights Reserved

Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley)

Lo, He comes with clouds descending Lyrics

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for mortal sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Christ appears on earth to reign.

Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
We who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

The dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
With what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own;
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.

Recording

Details

Tune: Helmsley
Meter: 87 87 47
Style: Classical
Composer: unknown collected by John Wesley (1703 – 1791) in Hymnal: Select Hymns with Tunes Annext (1765)
Lyricist: John Cennick (1718 – 1755) in Hymnal: Collection of Sacred Hymns, 1752; republished and changed by Charles Wesley in 1758 and Martin Madan in 1760.
Music and Lyrics Copyright Public Domain.
Performance Copyright ℗ 2014 Richard M S Irwin. Certain rights reserved.

Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah)

Hymn – Love’s redeeming work is done – Lyrics

Love’s redeeming work is done,
fought the fight, the battle won.
Lo, our Sun’s eclipse is o’er!
Lo, he sets in blood no more!

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal!
Christ has burst the gates of hell;
death in vain forbids him rise;
Christ has opened paradise.

Lives again our victorious King;
where, O death, is now thy sting?
Dying once, he all doth save;
where thy victory, O grave?

Soar we now where Christ has led,
following out exalted Head;
made like him, like him we rise,
ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

Hail the Lord of earth and heaven!
Praise to thee by both be given:
thee we greet triumphant now;
hail, the Resurrection thou!

Recording

Details

Tune: Savannah
Meter: 77 77
Style: Classical
Usage: Easter
Hymnal: John Wesley’s ‘Foundery Collection’ (1742)
Lyricist: Charles Wesley (1707 – 1788)
Music and Lyrics Copyright Public Domain.
Performance Copyright ℗ 2016 Richard M S Irwin. Certain rights reserved.

O God of Bethel, by whose hand (Martyrdom)

O God of Bethel, by whose hand – Lyrics

O God of Bethel, by Whose hand
Thy people still are fed,
Who through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our fathers led.

Our vows, our prayers, we now present
Before Thy throne of grace;
God of our forebears, be the God
Of their succeeding race.

Through each mysterious path of life
Our wandering footsteps guide;
Give us each day our daily bread,
And raiment fit provide.

O spread Thy covering wings around
Till all our wanderings cease,
And at our Father’s loved abode
Our souls arrive in peace.

Recording

Details

Tune: Martyrdom
Meter: CM
Style: Classical
Composer: Hugh Wilson (1766 – 1824)
Lyricist: Philip Doddridge (1702 – 1751) and Lyricist: John Logan (1748 – 1788)
Usage: General, All Saints
Music and Lyrics Copyright Public Domain

O happy band of pilgrims (Knecht – Kocher)

Hymn Lyrics: O happy band of pilgrims

O happy band of pilgrims,
If onward you will tread,
With Jesus as your Fellow,
To Jesus as your Head.

The cross that Jesus carried
He carried as your due;
The crown that Jesus weareth
He weareth it for you.

The faith by which ye see Him,
The hope in which ye yearn,
The love that through all troubles
To Him alone will turn.

What are they but forerunners
To lead you to his sight,
The longed-for distant dawning
Of uncreated light?

The trials that beset you,
The sorrows you endure,
Are known to Christ your Saviour,
Whose perfect grace will cure.

O happy band of pilgrims,
Look upward to the skies,
Where such a light affliction
Shall win you such a prize.

Recording

Details

Tune: Knecht (Kocher)
Meter: 76 76
Style: Classical
Composer: Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752 – 1817)
Lyricist: John Mason Neale (1818 – 1866)
Music and Lyrics Copyright Public Domain

O what their joy and their glory must be (O Quanta Qualia)

Hymn – O what their joy and their glory must be – Lyrics

Oh, what the joy and the glory must be,
Those endless Sabbaths the blessèd ones see!
Crown for the valiant, to weary ones rest;
God shall be all, and in all ever blest.

What are the Monarch, His court, and His throne?
What are the peace and the joy that they own?
Oh, that the blest ones, who in it have share,
All that they feel could as fully declare!

Truly Jerusalem name we that shore,
Vision of peace, that brings joy evermore;
Wish and fulfillment can severed be ne’er,
Nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.

There, where no troubles distraction can bring,
We the sweet anthems of Sion shall sing;
While for thy grace, Lord, their voices of praise
Thy blessèd people eternally raise.

There dawns no Sabbath, no Sabbath is o’er,
Those Sabbath-keepers have one evermore;
One and unending is that triumph-song
Which to the angels and us shall belong.

Now, in the meanwhile, with hearts raised on high,
We for that country must yearn and must sigh;
Seeking Jerusalem, dear native land,
Through our long exile on Babylon’s strand.

Low before Him with our praises we fall,
Of Whom, and in Whom, and through Whom are all;
Of Whom, the Father; and in Whom, the Son;
Through Whom, the Spirit, with Them ever One.

Recording

Details

Tune: O Quanta Qualia
Meter: 10 10 10 10
Style: Classical
Usage: General
Composer: François de La Feilée in ‘Méthode’ (1808)
Lyricist: Peter Abelard (1079 – 1142)
Translator: John Mason Neale (1818 – 1866)
Music Copyright & Lyrics Public Domain