Description
Hymns, Songs and Psalms from Church Hymnary: 4th Edition
Double CD
40 of the most popular hymns, songs and psalms from the hugely popular Church Hymnary: 4th Edition (CH4).
For church-goers and singers, and anyone who loves just listening to beautiful hymns.
Performed by:
- Scottish Philarmonic Singers
- Scottish Festival Singers
- St Magnus Festival Chorus
- St Magnus Cathedral Choir, Orkney
- Orkney Junior County Choir
- Dunblane Cathedral Choir
- Edinburgh University Singers
- Suzanne Adam, Sandy Butler, Marian Lees-McPherson, Simon Jacquet
This double CD contains forty songs taken from the four main sections of the fourth edition of the Church Hymnary – Psalms, The Living God, Life in Christ, and The Holy Spirit – carefully and lovingly compiled by members of the committee who put together the Church Hymnary collection.
Disc One
ABOUT THE PRODUCERS
Ian McCrorie MBE is a noted Scottish choral conductor, associated first with the Toad Choir of Greenock and subsequently with the Scottish Philharmonic Singers, who for fifteen years sang with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and latterly with the Scottish Festival Singers. He is also the official historian of CalMac.
Douglas Galbraith is currently the Church of Scotland's Ecumenical Officer and Secretary of its Music Panel. A new Scottish quarterly about church music, 'Different Voices', is to be launched under his editorship in 2008.
He is a tutor at the International Centre for Sacred Music Studies, University of Wales Bangor.
If you are looking for Church Hymnary 4th Edition, this is published by SCM Canterbury Press. You can find their website here.
Disc One
1. Praise and thanksgiving 170
2. Great God of every shining constellation 246
3, God weeps 168
4. For the world and all its people 262
5. Take up the song 171
6. Kyrie eleison 648, Sanctus and Benedictus 651, Agnus Dei 653
7. God, who made the earth 228
8. Love is the touch 115
9. How shall I sing that majesty? 128
10. Come, my Way 579
11. He is exalted 437
12. Earth, earth, awake 420
13. The tyrant issues his decree 330
14. Oh, for a closer walk with God 552
15. So much wrong and so much injustice 572
16. He came to earth 394
17. All my days I will sing 467
18. We turn to God when we are sorely pressed 393
19. Christ, of God unseen the image 453
Disc Two
1. The Lord's my shepherd 15 (Psalm 23)
2. Uyai Mose/Come all you people 757 (Psalm 100)
3. The Lord is my light 23 (Psalm 27)
4. Lord, you have always been our home 54 (Psalm 90)
5. O, come, and let us to the Lord 59 (Psalm 95)
6. Bring to the Lord a glad new song 106 (Psalm 149/150)
7. Sing a new song to the Lord 62 (Psalm 98)
8. Not to us be glory given 74 (Psalm 115)
9. O praise God in his holiness 107 (Psalm 150)
10. Soon and very soon 749
11. "I have a dream", a man once said 710
12. Halleluya! We sing your praises 674
13. O holy dove of God descending 591
14. Loving Spirit 597
15. Jesus puts this song into our hearts 692
16. Take and eat 670
17. Is it spooky, is it weird 602
18. When we are living 726
19. You are called to tell the story 680
20. May the God of peace go with us 786