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1 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah John Hughes 2:36
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2 Come Down, O Love Divine Ralph Vaughan Williams 3:16
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3 Lord, Your Almighty Word Felice Giardini 2:41
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4 Firmly I Believe and Truly Samuel Sebastian Wesley 2:26
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5 Lead, Kindly Light John Bacchus Dykes 3:13
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6 O Thou Who Camest from Above Samuel Sebastian Wesley 2:42
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7 Blessed Jesus at Your Word Johann Rudolph Ahle 2:11
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8 Jesu, Lover of My Soul Joseph Parry 3:16
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9 Be Still, My Soul Jean Sibelius 3:38
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10 The Day You Gave Us Clement Cotterill Scholefield 3:11
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11 Who Would True Valour See Ralph Vaughan Williams 2:14
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12 O Day of God, Draw Nigh James Hopkirk 2:08
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13 Lord of Our Life and God of Our Salvation Anonymous 3:02
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14 Ye Holy Angels Bright John Darwall 2:38
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15 Holy, Holy, Holy! John Bacchus Dykes 3:40
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16 Bread of the World in Mercy Broken Louis Bourgeois 1:37
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17 Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness Johann Heinrich Reinhardt 3:12
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18 In Faith and Hope and Love Richard Connolly 2:43
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19 Christ Is Our Cornerstone Samuel Sebastian Wesley 2:24
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20 O for a Closer Walk with God Anonymous 2:27
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21 O Praise Ye the Lord! Charles Hubert Hastings Parry 2:53
Directed by Peter Chapman, the choir sings settings that range from Welsh revival and German chorale to Victorian splendour and Australian collaboration. The programme includes Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah, Be Still, My Soul, Holy, Holy, Holy! and O Praise Ye the Lord!.
This is the third volume in the series, following Sing Out With Joy and Hymns For All Seasons, with Psalms completing the set.
Reviews
For those who like to hear their favourite hymns superbly sung [these] three volumes ... cannot be bettered.
It is difficult to imagine a more sensitive approach to the interpretation of words and hymn tunes than this disc provides ... a source of inspiration to hymn lovers.
Artists
Cantus Choro
choir
Cantus Choro has established a fine reputation for its broadcasts for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and recitals of sacred and secular music. Directed by Peter Chapman, with Norman Kaye on the organ.
Peter Chapman
director
Peter Chapman (1922–2006) was a choral conductor, singer and music teacher who achieved renown for his direction of the Choir of Canterbury Fellowship and of Cantus Choro in Melbourne for 25 years.
Norman Kaye
organ
Norman Kaye (1927–2007) was an Australian organist, composer and actor. Schooled in the French organ tradition, he brought bold colour, humour and improvisatory flair to the console, and is remembered equally for the quiet depth of his screen performances.
Geoffrey Cox
organ
Geoffrey Cox was born in Brisbane, but has lived in Melbourne since 1979. After a period as Organ Scholar at New College, Oxford in the late 1970s, he became Organist and Director of Music at St Peter's Anglican Church, Eastern Hill (1980-1994), Assistant Organist and Choirmaster at St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral (1995-1999) and then Director of Music at St Patrick's (1999-2014).
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
composer
Hubert Parry's music still fills cathedrals and coronations. Best known for the choral song Jerusalem, the coronation anthem I was glad and the hymn tune Repton, his writing joins ceremonial splendour to a humane, singable warmth.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was an English composer of nine symphonies, operas, ballets, and a large body of choral and vocal music. Drawing on Tudor polyphony and English folk-song, he helped free British music from its nineteenth-century German models.
Charles Wesley
composer
Charles Wesley's hymns still carry congregations and choirs: bold doctrinal verse made for singing, from Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Christ the Lord Is Risen Today to Love Divine and Jesu, Lover of My Soul.
Johann Rudolph Ahle
composer
Henry Williams Baker
composer
Richard Baxter
composer
Louis Bourgeois
composer
John Bunyan
composer
John Chandler
composer
Tobias Clausnitzer
composer
Richard Connolly
composer
Richard Connolly writes hymnody for the Australian Hymn Book repertoire. His 'Be Your Kingly Power' appears among familiar congregational tunes on these Cantus Choro recordings, set for choir and organ with clean, lively harmony that serves the words.
William Cowper
composer
William Cowper was a hymn writer whose sacred texts remain central to English-language hymnody and appear among favourite settings from the Australian Hymn Book.
John Darwall
composer
John Bacchus Dykes
composer
John Ellerton
composer
Felice Giardini
composer
John Hampden Gurney
composer
Reginald Heber
composer
Reginald Heber is the writer of enduring Christian hymns, among them Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning, heard on Australian choral recordings of the church year.
James Hopkirk
composer
John Hughes
composer
Matthäus von Löwenstern
composer
John Marriott
composer
James McAuley
composer
James McAuley is a songwriter whose hymn texts appear among settings drawn from the Australian Hymn Book.
John Samuel Bewley Monsell
composer
John Henry Newman
composer
Joseph Parry
composer
Joseph Parry (1841–1903) was a Welsh composer and musician, best known for the song Myfanwy and the hymn tune Aberystwyth.
Johann Heinrich Reinhardt
composer
Katharina von Schlegel
composer
Clement Cotterill Scholefield
composer
Robert Balgarnie Young Scott
composer
Jean Sibelius
composer
Jean Sibelius wrote music steeped in northern light, from the seven symphonies and Finlandia to intimate cello pieces, lullabies and songs that carry the same cool passion in miniature.
Bianco da Siena
composer
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
composer
Samuel Sebastian Wesley composed almost exclusively for the Anglican church. His anthems and hymn tunes, from extended verse settings to Aurelia and Lead me, Lord, still shape cathedral and parish worship.
William Williams
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Cantus Choro · choir
- Peter Chapman · director
- Norman Kaye · organ · tracks 3, 8, 12, 17 and 21
- Geoffrey Cox · organ · all except tracks 3, 8, 12, 17 and 21
Technical credits
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Contributor
Barry Firth
John Amiet
Nick Alexander
Robert Gribben
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Producer
Warwick Papst
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
Trinity College Chapel
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 58 minutes 8 seconds
- Release date
- 1992
- Category
- Choral
- Genres
- Choral & Sacred, Organ
- Musical work copyright
- © 1992 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1992 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3142
- EAN
- 9314574314229
More to explore
Psalms
Psalms and chants from the Anglican and Taizé traditions, with two hymns, directed by Peter Chapman. Cantus Choro’s recording shows his love of Anglican psalmody, lively musicianship, and care for phrasing and words.
The Remarkable Norman Kaye
Move Records has gathered material for this CD paying tribute to the wonderful Norman Kaye. The main focus is the musician and organist, without forgetting his acting career.
Hymns For All Seasons
Sixteen further hymns from Cantus Choro, recorded in the grand acoustic of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne. The programme opens with Advent and follows the great events of the Christian year, with Norman Kaye at the organ and the Melbourne Brass Ensemble.
Sing Out With Joy
Cantus Choro, directed by Peter Chapman, sings seventeen favourite hymns from the Australian Hymn Book. Norman Kaye’s imaginative organ accompaniments give the well-known settings fresh dramatic shape and room for the choir to breathe.
Encores
Directed by Douglas Lawrence, the Australian Chamber Choir gathers favoured concert encores in a programme that shows the ensemble at its most immediate and engaging.
Bards of Faith and Passion
Jim Minchin sets poems by writers at play or at odds with eternity: soul-poet lyrics across the centuries, from anonymous Latin verse and the metaphysicals to Yeats, Shakespeare and living voices.