Olney Hymns 3 - Send None Unhealed Away

Here is another one of the hymns I'm working on. This was a fairly solid day's work - not sure if the result is worth the effort but I enjoyed working on it. Cowper's lyrics are also incredibly beautiful and moving, so if, at the very least, it gets people reading his words, then it's worth it.

Olney Hymns 2 - The Waiting Soul

Here is the second recording/movie for my ongoing Olney Hymns project. I went to a bit more effort with the filming and recording of this one. The lyrics are available if you watch the video at YouTube. It is one of William Cowper's more mournful offerings but still strangely uplifting. I hope you like it.

New Year's Hymn

I recently set myself the fairly ridiculous task of writing new tunes for the best of John Newton and William Cowper's masterpiece, the "Olney Hymns" - excluding, perhaps, "Amazing Grace", which is so well-known that it would be hard to add to it. Yesterday I encountered this wonderful hymn, written by John Newton, to herald in the new year. It is sadly one of the many of the Olney Hymns which we no longer know or sing, so I've provided a fairly basic recording of my version of it. I am not a great composer and the quality of the recording is not worth commenting on, but I hope that listening to it might help the words resonate more and that, through them, you might be able to focus your minds on God as the new year hurries in.