At many funerals, the choir sings an anthem or two, either accompanied by the organ or unaccompanied. Here are some suggestions.
Click on the links below to hear an excerpt of the piece, and here for their texts.
All anthems are performed by our own artists and, with one exception, by a choir of just eight singers too, so this is how it would actually sound were you to engage a choir through us.
* Funeral sentences - W Croft (eight singers) (NB these words always start a Church of England funeral)
* Funeral sentences - W Croft (four singers)
* And I saw a new heaven -
* Beati quorum via - CV Stanford
* Bring us, O Lord God - W Harris
* Greater love hath no man than this - J Ireland
* How lovely are thy dwellings, from Requiem - J Brahms
* In paradisum, from Requiem - G Fauré
* Justorum animae - CV Stanford
* Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart (Nunc Dimittis) - numerous versions
* Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace - SS Wesley
* The Lord is my shepherd - F Schubert
* Valiant-for-truth - R Vaughan Williams
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