The Lenten anthem Come, and let us return unto the Lord was commissioned in 2019 for London’s Temple Church Choir by Roger Sayer and the Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones, the Director of Music and the Valiant Master of the Temple respectively. The composer wishes to thank them both, as well as Temple Church’s Liturgical Organist Charles Andrews, for his suggested organ registrations.

The work is a dramatic setting for double chorus of a striking passage from Hosea, very much conceived with Parry...