Catalogue
HAVPCD321 – Timeless Love
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| Disk Title | Timeless Love |
| The Hymn tunes of John Barnard | |
| Soloists | Organ Scholar – David Pipe |
| Organ Scholar – David Pipe | |
| Choir | Southwark Cathedral Choir |
| Conductor | Peter Wright & Stephen Disley |
| Location | Southwark Cathedral |
| Date Recorded | March 2006 |
| Audio Tracks | 24 |
I first came across Thomas Troeger’s inspirational text We need each other’s voice to sing at the 1988 Hymn Society conference in Bristol. Members of the Hymn Society are excellent sight-readers, but the tune to which it had been set proved at one point too complicated for them, and I decided to attempt one myself. Checkendon is named after a village in the Chilterns, 30 miles west of London. One of the features of the New Catholic Hymnal (1971) was the inclusion of fourteen beautiful texts by Father Brian Foley, including All things that are praise God by what they are, a paraphrase of Psalm 148. The melody of Upton Scudamore, a village near Westbury in Wiltshire, uses the pentatonic scale. The tune was written for this text. Gavin Reid’s Empty he came, first published in Psalm Praise (1973), is a paraphrase of Philippians 2:5–11. My tune, written in the 1980s, looks unpromising on the page, starting and ending in D minor with a middle section in Bb minor; but congregations seem to be able to pick it up. Bekesbourne is named after a village in a part of Kent where, in the late 1970s, I used to join my parents for a few days’ summer holiday.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 04:28 | We need each other’s voice to sing | ‘Checkendon’ |
| 2 | 02:55 | All things that are praise God | ‘Upton Scudamore’ |
| 3 | 02:32 | Empty he came | ‘Bekesbourne’ |
| 4 | 02:26 | The stars declare his glory | ‘Eythorne’ |
| 5 | 03:07 | No words, O Lord, can tell the wonder of your love | ‘Freshford’ |
| 6 | 03:12 | This is our harvest | ‘Ludlow’ |
| 7 | 02:33 | Lord of all power | ‘Chedworth’ |
| 8 | 02:21 | Of all the Spirit’s gifts to me | ‘Ewelme’ |
| 9 | 02:43 | God whose love is everywhere | ‘Christingle Praise’ |
| 10 | 02:28 | New light has dawned | ‘West Ashton’ |
| 11 | 02:24 | I’ll praise the Lord for ever and ever | ‘Great Cheverell’ |
| 12 | 03:14 | When you prayed beneath the trees | ‘Widford’ |
| 13 | 01:42 | Lord, in our lonely hours | ‘Swyncombe’ |
| 14 | 03:20 | Go forth and tell | ‘Yanworth’ |
| 15 | 02:50 | In our darkness light has shone | ‘Upton Cheyney’ |
| 16 | 02:20 | Sing, all creation | ‘Long Crendon’ |
| 17 | 03:00 | Come, let us worship | ‘Barnard Gate’ |
| 18 | 02:24 | How widely now does Christ stretch out | ‘Edington’ |
| 19 | 01:53 | Down to the lords of earth | ‘Bishops Cannings’ |
| 20 | 02:56 | I met the Lord | ‘Coulston’ |
| 21 | 01:49 | Timeless love | ‘Patrixbourne’ |
| 22 | 02:50 | This is the threefold truth | ‘Stanton Harcourt’ |
| 23 | 02:32 | God of my life | ‘Little Stanmore’ |
| 24 | 03:36 | Christ triumphant | ‘Guiting Power’ |
Southwark Cathedral Choristers Peter Wright Director of Music • Stephen Disley Director of the Girls’ Choir The earliest mention of any musical activity at Southwark is in 1365 (then an Augustinian Priory) when one Nicholas Le Clerk was appointed to teach boys to sing and read. In 1456, the parish records include a payment made to the ‘theatrical children’ at St Saviour’s (as it was then known). The first direct reference to professional singers is in 1569 when a certain Brian Pattinson, one of the vestry clerks, helped himself to the huge sum of £20 from funds to pay the Choir. He was dismissed and replaced by a successor ‘who shall be a good bass’. At the same time, the Choir also advertised for ‘a tenor, that the choir may be better served.’
