Hymnus paradisi

Hymnus Paradisi is a choral work by Herbert Howells for soprano and tenor soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra. The work was inspired in part by the death of his son Michael, and was hidden for performance for over a decade until Howells' colleague Ralph Vaughan Williams convinced him to perform it at the Three Choirs Festival.

The piece consists of six movements:

1. Preludio
2. Requiem aeternam
3. The Lord is My Shepherd, a setting of Psalm 23.
4. Sanctus. I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, which juxtaposes the Sanctus from the Ordinary of the Mass with Psalm 121.
5. I heard a voice from Heaven
6. Holy is the True Light

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