O Lord, our Lord was composed during lockdown for The King's Counterpoint Canterbury Cathedral residency, July 2022. The same choir also sang it in concert at Buckfast Abbey.

The anthem, which is adapted from Psalm 8:1-5, begins in a grand and stately manner as the choir sings 'how majestic is your name'. As the work unfolds, the dynamics reduce to a whisper at the words 'silence', before bright and shiny flute stops are engaged on the organ to depict the moon, stars and heavens. The anthem ends, as it began, in a triumphant and exciting manner.

This is a dramatic and effective setting of the text with minimal sop divisi only.