Listen & tracks
1 of 80 tracks have a preview · 34 works · 78:11
-
1 God, we praise you, God, we bless you Charles Hubert Hastings Parry 2:57
-
2 This is my Father's world Malcolm Williamson 2:18
-
3 When Christ was lifted from the earth Leonard Blake 1:40
-
4 O Lord Jesus Marrkapmirr Traditional Australian Indigenous melody :55
-
5 O changeless Christ, for ever new Gordon Slater 2:03
-
6 The voice of God goes out to all the world Colin Brumby 2:15
-
7 Your coming, Lord, to earth in Bethlehem Lawrence Francis Bartlett 2:34
-
8 In the fields near Bethlehem Lawrence Francis Bartlett 1:53
-
9 Here hangs a man discarded Peter Warwick Cutts 3:04
-
10 When his time was over the palms lay where they fell Robin Mann 3:10
-
11 Joyful the morning when Jesus Christ is risen! Traditional Torres Strait melody 1:43
-
12 Come, God's people, sing for joy Traditional 2:01
-
13 Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days Traditional 2:17
-
14 Father welcomes all his children Robin Mann 2:33
-
15 The Son of God proclaim Richard Dirksen 3:01
-
16 Let us talents and tongues employ Traditional 1:38
-
17 Christians lift your hearts and voices Henry John Gauntlett 1:48
-
18 Far beyond our mind's grasp Traditional 2:36
-
19 Christ be my leader by night as by day Traditional 1:42
-
20 God has spoken to his people Traditional 2:36
-
21 Safe in the shadow of the Lord Norman Warren 2:13
-
22 As man and woman we were made Traditional 2:02
-
23 God is our song Sydney Watson 2:02
-
24 Comfort, comfort all my people Robin Mann 3:00
-
25 Brother, sister, let me serve you Richard Gillard 2:45
-
26 Jesus, my Lord Gerald Hocken Knight 1:38
-
27 Made in God's likeness, moved by the Spirit Alister Spence 3:55
-
28 Lord of earth and all creation Robert Boughen 1:24
-
29 Donna nobis pacem Jacques Berthier 3:30
-
30 Eat this bread, drink this cup Jacques Berthier 4:19
-
31 Everything that has breath Terrye Coelho :56
-
32 Father, we adore you Brent Chambers 1:14
-
33 In the presence of your people Brent Chambers 1:39
-
34 Jesus, remember me Jacques Berthier 2:50
The programme ranges from Parry and Vaughan Williams settings to Torres Strait and Arnhem Land melodies, Taizé chants and Australian writers such as Robin Mann and Colin Brumby. Recorded at Wesley Church, Melbourne, the disc is meant as a practical model for congregational song rather than a polished concert choir showcase.
Companion hymn collections on Move include Sing Out With Joy, Hymns For All Seasons and Songs and Praises.
In the artist’s words
Sing Alleluia contains unfamiliar hymns, songs, psalms, chants, rounds and communion settings, it became apparent that congregations could benefit from introductory sessions which explored creative ways of using music in worship. To this end a small ‘ad hoc’ group of singers and instrumentalists from Uniting Churches in Melbourne offered the possibility of workshops.
Apart from worship leadership, conducting retreats and conferences, a small group presented three sessions on Christian Television and recorded the entire 105 items on cassette with Move Records over a period of two years.
Recordings were made in Wesley Church in Melbourne, often on cold winter nights. The intention was to demonstrate what a small occasional group could contribute to a diverse presentation of worship song.
Meanwhile invitations followed which led to visits across the state of Victoria for two years during which time over 40 volunteers participated, forming the ‘Sing Alleluia Music Ministry Team’ directed by Wendy McLean. At any one visit there would be four singers, a pianist, possibly a bass guitarist and a woodwind quartet for whom parts were arranged.
In compiling this CD there have been criteria:
* to use only material not already on the Together in Song – A Selection – 2 CD set commissioned by the AHB company.
* word changes from Sing Alleluia to Together in Song are minimal.
* to select a wide variety of words and musical styles including some which may be for occasional use only, or which may at first appear less accessible.
* to present selections with diverse instrumental accompaniments.
The intention remains – to encourage the belief that what a group of mostly amateurs can do, others can do, to enrich the peoples’ song to the glory of God.
Artists
Wendy McLean Singers
choir
Wendy McLean
director
Colin Brumby
composer
Colin Brumby (1933–2018) was an Australian composer and conductor whose prolific catalogue ranges across opera, concertos, chamber music, choral works and songs.
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.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
composer
Lawrence Francis Bartlett
composer
Lawrence Francis Bartlett is a composer and arranger of congregational hymns and worship songs, including settings taken into Australian hymn collections for church use.
Jacques Berthier
composer
Jacques Berthier's liturgical chants and songs, written largely for the Taizé Community, are built for shared singing: short, memorable phrases that hold across languages and large gatherings of worshippers.
Leonard Blake
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.
John Edward Bowers
composer
Basil Ernest Bridge
composer
Brent Chambers
composer
Brent Chambers is a composer and songwriter whose hymn writing is represented on Move in congregational repertoire recorded for worship use.
Terrye Coelho
composer
Luke Connaughton
composer
Mary Babcock Crawford
composer
Peter Warwick Cutts
composer
Richard Dirksen
composer
Timothy Dudley-Smith
composer
Francisco F. Feliciano
composer
Howard Gaunt
composer
Henry John Gauntlett
composer
Henry John Gauntlett wrote more than a thousand hymn tunes, among them Irby, the melody almost always paired with the Christmas carol Once in Royal David's City. His church music was shaped for congregational singing and the organ loft.
Richard Gillard
composer
Richard Gillard is a composer and songwriter whose hymns sit among the worship songs drawn from Sing Alleluia into Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II.
Frederick Pratt Green
composer
Christopher M. Idle
composer
Willard Francis Jabusch
composer
Frederik Herman Kaan
composer
Gerald Hocken Knight
composer
Patricia Lewis
composer
Robin Mann
composer
Robin Mann is a composer and songwriter of hymns and congregational songs heard on Move’s church music recordings.
Patrick George Michaels
composer
Wesley Milgate
composer
James Blundell Minchin
composer
Keith David Pearson
composer
Doreen Potter
composer
Betty Pulkingham
composer
Betty Pulkingham is a songwriter and arranger of hymns and worship songs. With her husband she helped shape the Community of Celebration and the worship band The Fisherfolk.
Gordon Slater
composer
Alister Spence
composer
Alister Spence is an Australian jazz pianist and composer. He leads his own trio and writes across small-group jazz, larger ensembles, and film scores.
Michael Rayner Thwaites
composer
Honor Mary Thwaites
composer
Norman Warren
composer
Sydney Watson
composer
Bliss Wiant
composer
Malcolm Williamson
composer
Malcolm Williamson wrote music that absorbed serial technique, Messiaen, jazz and popular song, then settled into a fundamentally tonal and lyrical language. His catalogue runs from piano sonatas and concertos to hymns, cassations and large choral scores.
D'Arcy Wood
composer
Brian Wren
composer
Brian Wren writes hymn texts that treat congregational song as poetry and theology. His lyrics, shaped by inclusive language and careful image, appear in hymnals across Christian traditions and on recordings of worship song.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Wendy McLean Singers · choir
- Rev. Peter Blackwood · speaker
- Wendy McLean · director
- Janet Perkins · piano, arranger
- Colin Jenkins · organ
- Alison Forsyth · flute
- Beth Dun · flute
- Lyndal McLean · flute
- Ian McKinnon · clarinet
- Ian Dun · clarinet
- Barbara McKinnon · oboe
- Hannah Cooper · oboe
- David McKinnon · bassoon
- Paul Gaudion · bass guitar
- John Wise · percussion
Technical credits
-
Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
-
Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
-
Venue
Wesley Church, Melbourne
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 78 minutes 11 seconds
- Release date
- 2004
- Category
- Choral
- Genres
- Choral & Sacred, Vocal & Opera
- Musical work copyright
- © 2004 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2004 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3291
- EAN
- 9314574329124
More to explore
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.
Nordic Moods & Baroque Echoes
A collaboration between Duo Langborn/Wendel and The Marais Project, this album blends baroque repertoire, new compositions and arrangements, and folk music from Australia and Sweden.
Gold
The Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence, performs works by eight Australian composers. From Gordon Kerry’s Shakespeare setting to Malcolm Williamson’s English Eccentrics, the programme turns individual voices into pure gold.
Where have you been all these years?
Claire Patti (vocal and harp), Louise Godwin (cello) and Tony Gould (piano) join in a warm tribute to musical friendship, bringing fresh interpretive colour to traditional songs they love.
A Baroque Christmas
The music on this CD is a historical Christmas “pick of the pops”, from the late 1400s to the end of the Baroque period. Directed by Douglas Lawrence, the Australian Chamber Choir offers a programme recorded live in concert during their 2019 European tour. The 17 tracks are drawn from lesser-known seasonal works, championing a sublime repertoire that is all too often neglected.
Fika
Fika is the second album from crossover ensemble Elysian Fields: music shaped for the Swedish custom of gathering with friends over coffee, conversation and something sweet to share.