Choral Anthems for Funerals, Part 2

WOW, the responses to Choral Anthems for Funerals has been tremendous. Dozens of readers replied through various media to create this list, and over 3,000 readers read the blog. That’s amazingly exciting.

I'm sure this list could be doubled. I discovered many anthems, of varying levels of difficulty (easy to extremely difficult), I had not known that are worth looking at. I do hope you will find the list helpful.

This list does not contain movements from major works, i.e., Requiems by Brahms, Mozart, ect. The list consists of standalone anthems. 

Finally, on some of the original Facebook posts, folks posted their own compositions with recordings, etc. These are not included in this list, as the recordings and scores support each other, are better represented as posted, as there are no links, etc. to recordings and/or scores on this list. This allows folks to determine if these would work in their situation, using those sources for review of the music.  

THANK YOU to all that contributed to this list! 

Abendlied – Josef Rheinberger

Abide With Me – arr. John Bertalot, Gilbert Martin
All my trials – Norman Luboff
All Shall Be Amen and Alleluia - Thomas Keesecker
Alleluia – Randall Thompson
And I Saw A New Heaven – Edgar Bainton, Edward Bairstow, Malcolm Archer
As Rooks Fly - Homeward Baynon
Ave Verum – W. A. Mozart
Beati quorum via – Charles V. Stanford
Be Still - Mary McDonald
Benediction - David von Kampen    
Blessed Are They That Mourn - Gordon Young
Blessed are You - Craig Courtney
Bring us, O Lord God – William Harris
Brother James' Air (Psalm 23) - Gordon Jacob
Burial sentences - Thomas Tomkins, William Croft, Henry Purcell
Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Fauré
Carry me Home - Jean Anne Shafferman
Christ is the morning star - Arvo Pärt
Come, Sweet (soothing) Death - J.S. Bach
Crossing the bar – Hubert Parry, Joseph Barnby
Deal Gently with Thy Servants, Lord – The American Vocalist
Death shall not destroy my comfort – Mack Willberg
Deep Peace – John Rutter
Do Not Be Afraid – Phillip Stopford
E'en so Lord Jesus quickly Come - Paul O. Manz
Farewell - Molly Ijames
Faire is the heaven – William Harris
For All The Saints – setting by Robert Shaw, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Funeral Ikos - John Tavener
Funeral Sentences – William Croft, and others
Give us the wings of faith – Ernest Bullock, James Whitbourn
Gloryland – arr. Bejamin Harlan
God Be in My Head  – Walford Davies, John Rutter, Andrew Carter
God So Loved the World – John Stainer
Greater Love Hath No Man Than This – John Ireland
Hat Gott die welt geliebt – Heinrich Schütz
Heaven's Choir - Pepper Choplin
Holy is the true Light – William Harris, Gerald Near
How they so softly rest - Healey Willan
Hymn of Promise - Natalie Sleeth
I am the resurrection – William Croft, Henry Purcell, Andrew Clark
I carry you in my heart – Donna Butler
I have felt the hand of God - Craig Courtney
I heard a voice from heaven - Charles V. Stanford, John Goss
I believe that my Redeemer Lives - C. Alexander Peloquin
I will lift up mine eyes - Leo Sowerby, Jake Runstead, John Rutter
I Will Sing to You – Larry Shackley
If ye believe that Jesus died and rose again – John Goss
If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis
In Manus tuas – Thomas Tallis, Tomás Luis de Victoria
In My Father’s House - Philip Stopford
In sure and Certain Hope (selections from) – Nicholas White
It is well with my soul - Mark Hayes
Jesus Christ The Apple Tree - Elizabeth Poston, Stanford Scriven
Jesu Dulcis Memoria – attr. Tomás Luis de Victoria
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring – J. S. Bach
Jesus, Priceless Treasure (numerous cantatas/motet) - J. S. Bach
Jesus the Very Thought of Thee - W. F. Schmidt
Joy in the Morning - Natalee Sleeth
Kontakion - Rupert Lang
Let down the bars, oh Death – Samuel Barber
Let not your heart be troubled – arr. Oley Speaks, Henry Clark
Let nothing ever grieve thee – Johannes Brahms
Lord, thou knowest - Henry Purcell
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men – Vaughan Williams
Let Your Restless Hearts Be Still - John Bell
Lord let me know mine end – Maurice Greene
Lord, thou hast searched me out – Healey Willan 
Love is Little (Shaker Songs) - Kevin Siegfried
Lux Aeterna – Edward Elgar, Morten Lauridsen
Make My Life an Alleluia -Ruth Elaine Schram
Mine abode may Zion be – Steven Aycock
Morning Star - Arvo Pärt
My Shepherd will supply my need - Virgil Thomson, Mack Wilberg
Never weather-beaten sail - Hubert Parry, Charles wood
None other lamb - Joseph Roff
Nunc dimittis (Song of Simeon) – John Tavener, Russel Shultz-Widmar, others 
O for a closer walk – Charles V. Stanford
O How Amiable – Ralph Vaughn Williams
O Lord, Support Us all the Day Long - Carl Schalk
O Love - Elaine Hagenberg
O quam gloriosum, regnum - Tomás Luis de Victoria
O Heart Subdued with Grieving – Johannes Brahms
O thou sweetest source - Charles Wood
On Eagles Wings - numerous arrangers
Panis Angelicus - César Franck
Parce mihi, Domine - Cristóbal de Morales
Precious Lord - Arnold Sevier, Roy Ringwald
Recollection of Joy – Donna Butler
Remember me - Stephen Chatman
Requiem - Giacomo Puccini
Requiem Aeternam - Giovanni Anerio
Set me as a seal upon your heart - Rene Clausen
Sicut cervus - Giovanni Palestrina
Sing Me to Heaven - Daniel E. Gawthrop
Song for Athene –  John Tavener
Sleep, sleep, my child - Thurlow Weed
Song for Athene – John Tavener
Song of The Saints - Pepper Choplin
Songs of Farewell – Hubert Parry
Sure On This Shining Night - Morten Lauridsen
Surely, He Hath Born Our Griefs - Evan Copley, Antonio Lotti
Take him, earth, for cherishing - Herbert Howells
That They May Rest - Carson Cooman
The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee - Jean Berger
The Lord Bless you and Keep you – Peter Lutkin, John Rutter
The Lord Is My Shepherd – Antonín Dvořák, Allan Pote, John Rutter
The Lord to me a Shepherd Is – Jean Berger
The Old Rugged Cross - arr. Douglas Wagner
The Road Home – Stephen Paulus
The Souls of the Righteous - Geraint Lewis, T. Tertius Noble, David Cherwien, Stanley Marchant
They are at rest – Edward Elgar
They That Go Down To The Sea In Ships – Herbert Sumsion
Thou Knowest Lord the secrets of our Hearts – Henry Purcell
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace – Samuel Wesley
Valiant for Truth – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Versa est in luctum - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Alonso Lobo
We Shall Walk through the Valley in Peace – Moses Hogan
What a Fellowship - arr. Gilbert Martin
What a Morning – Larry Shackley
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross – arr. Gilbert Martin
When The Saints Go Marching In – arr. by John Rutter
Where thou reignest – Franz Schubert
Wings of the Dawn (Psalm 139) - Linda Spencer
With wings as eagles - Benjamin Harlan

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