Songs and Praises
Favourite hymns from the Australian Hymn Book, Vol. 3. Choir and organ fill Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne, with the thrilling sound that hymn lovers know so well.
Felice Giardini composer
Samuel Sebastian Wesley composer
Johann Rudolph Ahle composer
Joseph Parry composer
Jean Sibelius composer
Clement Cotterill Scholefield composer
James Hopkirk composer
John Darwall composer
John Bacchus Dykes composer
Richard Connolly composer
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry composer
John Hughes composer
Louis Bourgeois composer
Johann Heinrich Reinhardt composer
John Henry Newman songwriter
Charles Wesley songwriter
John Ellerton songwriter
John Bunyan songwriter
Robert Balgarnie Young Scott songwriter
Matthäus von Löwenstern songwriter
Richard Baxter songwriter
John Hampden Gurney songwriter
Reginald Heber songwriter
James McAuley songwriter
John Chandler songwriter
Henry Williams Baker songwriter
William Williams songwriter
Bianco da Siena songwriter
John Marriott songwriter
Tobias Clausnitzer songwriter
Katharina von Schlegel songwriter
John Samuel Bewley Monsell songwriter
William Cowper songwriter
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
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
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
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
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).
Audio preview
Tracks
- Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah John Hughes William Williams 2:36
- Come Down, O Love Divine Ralph Vaughan Williams Bianco da Siena 3:16
- Lord, Your Almighty Word Felice Giardini John Marriott 2:41
- Firmly I Believe and Truly Samuel Sebastian Wesley John Henry Newman 2:26
- Lead, Kindly Light John Bacchus Dykes John Henry Newman 3:13
- O Thou Who Camest from Above Samuel Sebastian Wesley Charles Wesley 2:42
- Blessed Jesus at Your Word Johann Rudolph Ahle Tobias Clausnitzer 2:11
- Jesu, Lover of My Soul Joseph Parry Charles Wesley 3:16
- Be Still, My Soul Jean Sibelius Katharina von Schlegel 3:38
- The Day You Gave Us Clement Cotterill Scholefield John Ellerton 3:11
- Who Would True Valour See Ralph Vaughan Williams John Bunyan 2:14
- O Day of God, Draw Nigh James Hopkirk Robert Balgarnie Young Scott 2:08
- Lord of Our Life and God of Our Salvation (Anonymous) Matthäus von Löwenstern 3:02
- Ye Holy Angels Bright John Darwall Richard Baxter John Hampden Gurney 2:38
- Holy, Holy, Holy! John Bacchus Dykes Reginald Heber 3:40
- Bread of the World in Mercy Broken Louis Bourgeois Reginald Heber 1:37
- Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness Johann Heinrich Reinhardt John Samuel Bewley Monsell 3:12
- In Faith and Hope and Love Richard Connolly James McAuley 2:43
- Christ Is Our Cornerstone Samuel Sebastian Wesley John Chandler 2:24
- O for a Closer Walk with God (Anonymous) William Cowper 2:27
- O Praise Ye the Lord! Charles Hubert Hastings Parry Henry Williams Baker 2:53
Performers
- Cantus Choro
- Peter Chapman · director
- Norman Kaye · tracks 3, 8, 12, 17 and 21
- Geoffrey Cox · all except tracks 3, 8, 12, 17 and 21
Composers
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
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
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
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.
Richard Connolly
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
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.
Reginald Heber
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 McAuley
James McAuley is a songwriter whose hymn texts appear among settings drawn from the Australian Hymn Book.
Joseph Parry
Joseph Parry (1841–1903) was a Welsh composer and musician, best known for the song Myfanwy and the hymn tune Aberystwyth.
Jean Sibelius
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.
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
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.
Where to listen
Songs and Praises is available for streaming through Spotify and Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Songs and Praises is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MD 3142
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 58 minutes 8 seconds
- Contributor
- Barry Firth
John Amiet
Nick Alexander
Robert Gribben - Producer
- Warwick Papst
- Recording Engineer
- Martin Wright
- Venue
- Trinity College Chapel
- Release date
- 1992
- Musical work
copyright - © 1992 Move Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1992 Move Records
- Category
- Choral
- Genres
- Choral & Sacred, Organ
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574314229
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