New Recordings

Dear Friends, This is one of the most important moments of my life. It’s a thrill to finally share with you the exciting news about “Kyrie” from its premiere at Jacksonville University, a moment so special that I flew there to experience it firsthand. Having my friend Julian Bryson conducting was very meaningful for this […]

Hot off the presses — a brand new choral creation is born — an a cappella arrangement of Gustav Mahler’s beautiful song “Ging heut’ morgen über’s Feld” — which Mahler used as the opening theme in his very 1st Symphony. And perhaps a choir somewhere might like to “test drive” this one day in concert. […]

To my friends south of the border who are celebrating Thanksgiving Weekend, as a Canadian composer I’m so very thankful to be able to share with you this brand new, made-in-America recording of my song, “Let’s toil for Love not Hate.” It’s my 4th choral creation in the series I call “Songs in search of […]

Hot off the presses, a spectacular new recording of “A Shakespearean Wassail” by the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir. The 3rd and final instalment of my Shakespearean Choral Trilogy. Dedicated to my father Douglas Rain, a Shakespearean actor, who left this mortal coil 5 years ago, on Remembrance Day in Canada (Nov 11), and who (like […]

ONWARD WE GO Music by Thomas Hewitt Jones Words by Canon Gordon Giles The Children’s choir of St Stephen’s, Dulwich Caroline Lenton-Ward, conductor with Oliver Lallemant (piano), Jill Valentine (viola), Jernej Albreht (clarinet), Joe Downard (bass guitar) and Simon Hewitt Jones (violin) The Children’s choir of St Stephen’s, Dulwich conducted by Caroline Lenton-Ward, sing this […]

I have something special to share. 4 years ago, I began a massive choral project — one unlikely to be repeated in my remaining days on this planet — which has finally come to fruition. I have so much to be thankful for, including a spectacular new recording by the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir of […]