Song suggestions for a full choir

Our most popular funeral songs and hymns for a choir of eight.

We don't have a set repertoire list and we'll sing anything you choose. But if you need some ideas, here are our clients' most popular choices. You can hear some of these songs on our Listen page.

Hymns

Your congregation can join in on these, with the choir leading them.

Abide With Me

All Things Bright And Beautiful

Amazing Grace

Be Not Afraid

Be Thou My Vision

Bread of Life, Truth Eternal

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Do Not Be Afraid

Going Home (from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9)

Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer

He Who Would Valiant Be

Here I Am, Lord

How Great Thou Art

I Vow To Thee My Country

Immortal, Invisible

Jerusalem

Lord Of All Hopefulness

Lord of the Dance

Love Divine All Loves Excelling

Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace

Morning Has Broken

On Eagles’ Wings

Praise My Soul The King of Heaven

Sing Hosanna

Soul of my Saviour, Sanctify My Breast

Take My Hand, Precious Lord

The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended

The Lord’s My Shepherd (Crimond)

The Old Rugged Cross

Thine Be The Glory

This Is My Body

Performance pieces

To be performed by just the choir on their own. 

A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter)

Ave Maria (Schubert)

Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)

Be Still My Soul (Sibelius, Finlandia tune)

Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)

Calon Lân (trad. Welsh)

Do Not Be Afraid (Stopford)

For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter)

Gaelic Blessing (Rutter)

God Be In My Head (Davies)

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau/Land of My Fathers (trad. Welsh)

Hallelujah (Cohen)

I Cannot Tell (Londonderry Air)

In Paradisum (Fauré)

Irish Blessing (Chilcott)

Locus Iste (Bruckner)

Love Divine (Goodall)

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G (Stanford)

Men of Harlech (trad. Welsh)

My Lovely One (Finzi)

O My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose (Burns/Carrington)

Panis Angelicus (Franck)

Sanctus (Fauré)

The Long Day Closes (Arthur Sullivan)

The Lord Bless You And Keep You (Rutter)

The Lord Is My Shepherd (Goodall)

We’ll Meet Again (Vera Lynn)

You Raise Me Up (Secret Garden/Josh Groban/Westlife)

You’ll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel)

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