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1 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Anonymous 4:06
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2 Of the Father's Love Begotten Anonymous 4:07
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3 Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning Anonymous 2:54
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4 Earth Has Many a Noble City Christian Friedrich Witt 2:19
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5 Forty Days and Forty Nights Martin Herbst 2:41
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6 Lord Jesus, Think on Me William Damon 2:06
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7 Ride On, Ride On in Majesty Anonymous 2:21
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8 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Edward Miller 3:04
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9 The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done Melchior Vulpius 3:14
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10 Christ the Lord is Risen Today George Job Elvey 1:47
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11 Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise Sydney Nicholson 3:36
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12 Come, O Spirit from on High Samuel Webbe 2:55
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13 Bright the Vision That Delighted Richard Redhead 2:46
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14 O Brother Man, Fold to Thy Heart Thy Brother Alfred Ernest Floyd 2:50
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15 Let All the World in Every Corner Sing Basil Harwood 1:43
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16 For All the Saints Who from Their Labours Rest Ralph Vaughan Williams 3:59
The Melbourne Brass Ensemble contributes spectacular fanfares on five of the hymns. The selection includes O come, O come, Emmanuel, Christ the Lord is risen today, For all the saints, O brother man, When I survey the wondrous cross and The strife is o'er.
This is the second of four Cantus Choro hymn recordings on Move, following Sing Out With Joy and preceding Songs and Praises and Psalms.
Reviews
For those who like to hear their favourite hymns superbly sung [these] three volumes ... cannot be bettered.
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.
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.
Melbourne Brass Ensemble
ensemble
Formed In 1979, the Melbourne Brass Ensemble has established itself as one of Australia’s leading chamber music exponents, regularly performing for such organisations as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Musica Viva, and Music in the Round. The Ensemble has made it a policy to commission Australian compositions to add new dimension to its repertoire.
Peter Chapman
conductor
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.
Mark Summerbell
conductor
Mark Summerbell works as an arranger of traditional hymns for choir and brass, and as a conductor of contemporary chamber scores that set saxophone against piano, percussion and ensemble colour.
Johann Sebastian Bach
composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.
Alfred Ernest Floyd
composer
Alfred Ernest Floyd's sacred writing serves the church year and the organ loft: the carol Cold and Dark is Holy Night, Church Preludes for small instruments, and hymnody from Advent through All Saints.
George Herbert
composer
George Herbert’s sacred lyrics speak with plain force and metaphysical wit to the soul’s traffic with God. Shaped as altars and wings on the page, they have drawn composers for centuries and still ring out as hymns and art songs of rare intimacy.
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.
John Greenleaf Whittier
composer
John Greenleaf Whittier’s verse lives on in the hymn book: calm, plain-spoken lines that ask for stillness, pity, and fellowship. Dear Lord and Father of Mankind and O Brother Man are the texts most often sung from his work.
John Henry Arnold
composer
Robert Boughen
composer
Robert Boughen's sacred writing and arrangements give choirs sturdy, singable music for the Christian year, from Advent hymns and Easter triumphs to a Christmas Gloria that rings with festive clarity.
Allen William Chatfield
composer
William Damon
composer
George Job Elvey
composer
David Evans
composer
David Evans wrote and harmonised hymn tunes that still shape congregational singing, among them the familiar setting of Be Thou My Vision and Lucerna Laudoniae for For the Beauty of the Earth.
Basil Harwood
composer
William Henry Havergal
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.
Martin Herbst
composer
Bishop William Walsham How
composer
Stephen Langton
composer
Bishop Richard Mant
composer
Edward Miller
composer
Edward Miller wrote the hymn tunes Rockingham and Galway, still sung to Watts’s “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” and Wesley’s “A charge to keep I have”. His church music shaped parish psalmody across the English-speaking world.
Dean Milman
composer
John Mason Neale
composer
John Mason Neale's hymn translations and carols remain staples of English-speaking worship and Christmas repertoire, from Good King Wenceslas to O come, O come, Emmanuel and other medieval texts he brought into common use.
Sydney Nicholson
composer
Sydney Nicholson's hymn tunes and arrangements serve the Anglican liturgy across the church year, from Advent processions to Easter triumph. His writing for parish choirs is practical, singable and built for congregational worship.
Francis Pott
composer
Francis Pott is credited as songwriter on Move collections of church music: contemporary religious songs that mix jazz, folk and traditional colour, and hymns that follow the Christian year from Advent through Easter to All Saints.
Prudentius
composer
Richard Redhead
composer
John Rutter
composer
John Rutter writes and arranges choral music that sits easily with choirs and congregations: Christmas carols, hymns for the church year, and extended sacred works whose melodies are built for the human voice.
George Hunt Smyttan
composer
Melchior Vulpius
composer
Isaac Watts
composer
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer and theologian. Credited with some 750 hymns, he is widely recognised as a founding figure of English hymnody.
Samuel Webbe
composer
Christian Friedrich Witt
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Cantus Choro · choir
- Norman Kaye · organ · all except track 6
- Melbourne Brass Ensemble · ensemble · all except tracks 3–8, 12–15
- Peter Chapman · conductor
- Mark Summerbell · conductor · all except tracks 3–8, 12–15
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Barry Firth
Martin Wright
Nicholas Alexander
Warwick Papst
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Venue
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 46 minutes 28 seconds
- Release date
- 1987
- Category
- Choral
- Genre
- Choral & Sacred
- Musical work copyright
- © 1986 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1987 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3062
- EAN
- 9314574306224
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