A song was heard at Christmas was written for Gorseinon Youth Choir and premiered at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall in December 2009. It was featured on BBC Radio 3’s Carols for Breakfast in 2011. Featuring text by Timothy Dudley-Smith the carol opens with a soprano solo and builds throughout four verses to a triumphant and celebratory choral conclusion.

Thomas Campion?s Never weather-beaten sail is a sprightly text that powerfully evokes the sailor?s plea for God?s calming presence upon the sea?s unrelenting rushing waves. At the opening of this work for unaccompanied mixed voices the jaunty alto/tenor movement in thirds symbolises the curling waves of the undulating sea the mellifluous soprano melody represents the boat?s sails and the bass section?s never-changing ?A? provides the anchor. All four voices then come together in homophony urging God to ?come quickly...and take my soul to rest?. Rather than a simple repetition of thematic material in the manner of a standard hymn the texture alters through the rest ofthe work until the very end where all voices gradually fade away into the distance leaving what seems like a lone voice in the wilderness to cry ?to Thee?. Contrasting to other well-known setting of this text this new work provides a fresh interpretation suitable for intermediate choirs.