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1 All creatures of our God and King Traditional 3:42
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2 Let all mortal flesh Traditional 3:29
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3 Praise my soul, the King of Heaven John Goss 3:26
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4 I to the hills Traditional 1:54
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5 Dear Lord and Father of mankind Charles Hubert Hastings Parry 4:10
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6 Be thou my vision Traditional 2:28
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7 For the beauty of the earth David Evans 2:45
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8 The God of Abraham Traditional 2:20
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9 Glorious things of you are spoken Franz Joseph Haydn 3:09
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10 Be thou my guardian and my guide Isaac Smith 2:17
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11 My song is love unknown John Ireland 2:40
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12 Immortal invisible Traditional 2:34
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13 Love divine Rowland H. Pritchard 3:21
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14 By your kingly power Richard Connolly 3:17
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15 Be known to us Traditional 1:27
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16 Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go Orlando Gibbons 2:48
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17 Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour Sir George Martin 3:30
A selection of favourite hymns from the Australian Hymn Book, among them All creatures of our God and King, Praise my soul, For the beauty of the earth, Immortal, invisible, Be thou my vision and Love divine.
Recorded in Trinity College Chapel within the University of Melbourne, the programme draws on familiar congregational settings. Kaye’s organ writing supports rather than overwhelms the voices, and the choir’s clear diction and balanced tone carry the words with care.
Cantus Choro can also be heard on Hymns For All Seasons, Songs and Praises and Psalms.
Reviews
…The album was recorded in the chapel of Trinity College at Melbourne University with most imaginative organ accompaniment by Norman Kaye, who really demonstrates the versatility of a lovely instrument and a fine musician. More than that, he gives a lead to other musicians as he lets the choir breathe free of accompaniment, the breathing making the moments of accompaniment that much more effective than the usual barrage of full-scale accompaniment that so often dominates rather than supports the singing and the prayer…
…The harmonies are clean and lively — special mention should be made here of the superb tenor work and the beautiful flute-like soprano and descant voices…
It is a record which may be listened to with joy! Singing is superb. The pure choral tone is outstanding. Diction is clear, and it is all directed with fine musicianship!
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.
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.
Franz Joseph Haydn
composer
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, central to the making of the symphony, the string quartet and the piano trio. A vast body of chamber, orchestral and sacred music from his long career shaped the language of his age.
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.
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.
Francis of Assisi
composer
George Hugh Bourne
composer
Mary Elizabeth Byrne
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.
Samuel Crossman
composer
Samuel Crossman's hymn texts from the 1660s still sound in churches and on record. My Song is Love Unknown is the best known: a spare Passion meditation whose plain diction has drawn composers from John Ireland to later arrangers.
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.
Orlando Gibbons
composer
Orlando Gibbons wrote English madrigals, verse anthems, full anthems and keyboard music at the hinge of Renaissance and Baroque practice: lucid polyphony, rhetorical force without bombast, and lines that lodge in the ear like The Silver Swan.
John Goss
composer
John Goss wrote English church music marked by graceful vocal lines and careful word-setting. His hymn tune for Praise, my soul, the King of heaven remains one of the most familiar congregational melodies in the Anglican repertory.
Eleanor Hull
composer
Eleanor Hull wrote the English versification of the Old Irish prayer Rop tú mo baile, known as the hymn Be Thou My Vision. The 1912 text is sung as standard congregational hymnody on recordings of favourite hymns.
John Ireland
composer
John Ireland wrote English art songs, piano miniatures and sacred choral music in a personal Impressionist vein, closer to Debussy and Ravel than to the folk-song school. His hymn Love Unknown and the carol The Holy Boy remain widely sung.
Henry Francis Lyte
composer
Sir George Martin
composer
James McAuley
composer
James McAuley is a songwriter whose hymn texts appear among settings drawn from the Australian Hymn Book.
James Montgomery
composer
James Montgomery's hymn and carol texts remain central to congregational singing. His words are heard here among favourite hymns and Christmas carols, including Angels from the Realms of Glory.
John Newton
composer
Thomas Olivers
composer
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
composer
Rowland H. Pritchard
composer
Walter Chalmers Smith
composer
Isaac Smith
composer
Isaac William
composer
Isaac William is a composer and songwriter credited on a Move recording of favourite hymns drawn from the Australian Hymn Book.
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
Technical credits
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Contributor
Andrew Earle
Nick Alexander
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Producer
Martin Wright
Warwick Papst
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Warwick Papst
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Venue
Trinity College Chapel
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Credit
Don Wirth
Dr A. Harold Wood
Howard Birnstihl
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 49 minutes 17 seconds
- Release date
- 1987
- Categories
- Choral, Classical, Organ
- Genres
- Choral & Sacred, Organ
- Musical work copyright
- © 1981 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1987 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3032
- EAN
- 9314574303223
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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.
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.
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.
Nordic Moods & Baroque Echoes
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Where have you been all these years?
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