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Hymns on Sunday
A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns with Robyn Jaquiery
Sundays at 7:30am on RNZ Concert, 4:20am on RNZ National
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Hymns on Sunday, 17 March 2024
17 Mar 202419th-century English architect James Edmeston wrote around 2000 hymns - it was said that he produced one every Sunday. We'll hear one of his best-known hymns this week: Lead us, heavenly Father, lead… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 10 March 2024
10 Mar 2024It’s the Fourth Sunday in Lent, known as Laetare (‘rejoice’ in Latin) Sunday. Hymns include Praise, my soul, the king of heaven and the psalm paraphrase Praise God, for he is kind. And we remember New… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 March 2024
3 Mar 2024This week, we’ve hymns that focus on peace, unity and consolation, including Make me a channel of your peace (The Prayer of St Francis), and Margaret Rizza’s In the Lord is my joy and salvation. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 25 February 2024
25 Feb 2024This week, we've a hymn by Dunedin GP Nigel Eastgate; two different settings of Psalm 130 - Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; and a hymn from Hatea Kapa Haka: E kino koe te ingoa nei. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 18 February 2024
18 Feb 2024In this week’s programme we’re marking the First Sunday in Lent, there’s a hymn written for Human Rights Day, and we get an insight into how American minister Robert Lowry wrote his hymns. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 11 February 2024
11 Feb 2024There’s a reflective feel to this week’s selection of listener requests, with hymns including There is a balm in Gilead, Nearer my God to thee, and Margaret Rizza’s Prayer for Peace. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 4 February 2024
4 Feb 2024It's all about descants today - those soaring vocal lines above the melody that are often sung on the final verse of hymns. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 28 January 2024
28 Jan 2024There are sea-related hymns in this week’s programme of requests, including Eternal Father, strong to save (also known as ‘the Navy Hymn’) and Will your anchor hold in the storms of life. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 January 2024
21 Jan 2024A memory of the Pope's visit to Cardiff in the 1980s, a favourite hymn from Bible Class days, and a dedication to a beloved grandfather: some of the inspirations behind this week's hymn requests. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 January 2024
14 Jan 2024A gentle start to this week's hymn requests programme, with an arrangement of Eleanor Farjeon's Morning has broken sung by the Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 January 2024
7 Jan 2024One of the earliest surviving Christian hymns, a hymn to mark Epiphany, and St Francis of Assisi’s hymn All creatures of our God and king – all in this week’s programme of Summer Hymn Requests. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 31 December 2023
31 Dec 2023Summer Hymn Requests begin today: for the next month or so, we’ll be playing your choices. Today’s programme includes Our life has its seasons by Shirley Murray, Charles Wesley’s hymn And can it be… Read more Audio
Hymns on Sunday
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