London Philharmonic Orchestra and Amen Choir -- Hymns Triumphant (Volume I + II

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London Philharmonic Orchestra and Amen Choir -- Hymns Triumphant (Volumes I + II)


	Price: $18.95 Availability: In Stock Product#: SPD-51989 [2 CD SET] Released: 1981 (Re-released in 2002) Label: Sparrow Records Description: Choir And Orchestra Total Playing Time for both CD's: 136:54 CD #1 -- 70:54 (Hymns Triumphant Volume 1) CD #2 -- 66:00 (Hymns Triumphant Volume 2)

This recording is listed under:
Choirs
Re-Releases From LP's

Songs Included On These Two CD's
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Hymns Triumphant I - A Symphonic Choral Suite -- Performed by the London Philharmonic Choir and National Philharmonic Orchestra. Arranged by Lee Holdridge -- Conducted by John Alldis.

OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN
1. Immortal Invisible (1:52)
2. Come Thou Almighty King (0:42)
3. This Is My Father's World (0:39)
4. The God of Abram Praise (1:48)
5. Holy, Holy, Holy (0:38)
6. Dear Lord, And Father of Mankind (1:00)
7. Eternal Father, Strong To Save (2:03)

HALLOWED BE THY NAME
8. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (1:07)
9. O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing (0:50)
10. All Creatures Of Our God And King (1:21)
11. Hark, Ten Thousand Harps And Voices (1:25)
12. Praise To The Lord God Almighty (3:13)

THY KINGDOM COME
13. What Child Is This? (1:20)
14. O Come, O Come Emmanuel (0:54)
15. The First Noel (2:14)
16. Silent Night (3:14)

THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
17. O Sacred Head (1:21)
18. Were You There? (1:51)
19. When I Survey The Wondrous Cross (3:23)

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD
20. God Of Our Fathers (1:40)
21. We Plow The Fields Together (2:09)
22. Now Thank We All Our God (2:39)
23. For The Beauty Of The Earth (2:36)

AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS
24. Amazing Grace (3:55)
25. Jesus, Lover Of My Soul (2:34)
26. Just As I Am (2:06)

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL
27. Blest Be The Tie That Binds (0:31)
28. Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us (1:29)
29. Rock Of Ages (1:21)
30. I Need Thee Every Hour (1:24)
31. Abide With Me (2:22)
32. O God Our Help In Ages Past (2:04)

FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER , AMEN
33. Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (1:53)
34. All Hail The Power Of Jesus Name (0:46)
35. Crown Him With Many Crowns (0:51)
36. Fairest Lord Jesus (1:54)
37. Onward Christian Soldiers (2:44)
38. Battle Hymn Of The Republic (3:15)
39. Sevenfold Amen (1:23)

Hymns Triumphant II - The Triumph Of The Christian Life -- Performed by The Amen Choir and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Arranged and Conducted by Lee Holdridge

THROUGH WORSHIP
1. Come, Christians, Join To Sing/Brethren, We Have Met To Worship/Rejoice The Lord Is King (5:14)
THROUGH PRAISE
2. Morning Has Broken/Sun Of My Soul/All Hail The Power Of Jesus/ Name (4:32)
3. Jesus, The Very Thought Of Thee (4:04)
FOLLOWING THE LIGHT
4. Be Thou My Vision (1:51)
5. O Wondrous Type And Vision Fair/He Leadeth Me (4:27)
THE CHURCH
6. The Church Is One Foundation/We Are Marching To Zion/I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord (4:16)
DEDICATION
7. I Love Thee/Take My Life And Let It Be (1:56)
COMMUNION AND THANKSGIVING
8. Let Us Break Bread Together/Come, Ye Thankful People Come (6:08)
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
9. Once To Every Man And Nation/Lead On O King Eternal (6:30)
PRAYER
10. Sweet Hour Of Prayer (1:51)
THE CROSS OF CHRIST
11. There Is A Fountain/Alas, And Did My Savior Bleed/What Wondrous Love Is This? (5:32)
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
12. Christ The Lord Is Risen Today (3:08)
REPENTANCE AND ACCEPTANCE OF CHRIST
13. I Hear Thy Welcome Voice/Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior/Hark, And Hear My Trumpet Sounding (5:06)
ASSURANCE OF THE FAITH
14. I Will Arise And Go To Jesus/How Firm A Foundation/It Is Well With My Soul (3:41)
CLAIMING ETERNAL LIFE
15. Deep River (2:52)
AMEN
16. How Great Thou Art (4:43)

MY COMMENTS
This recording is a re-release of old Hymns Triumphant series. Volume 1 is the one that I have been playing on Old Christian Radio since this station has been on the air. Each volume was a two record set. (Total of 4 records for both volumes). This one is also one of my favorite recordings in my library that I personally love to listen to. I'm glad that Sparrow Records re-released it in a 2 CD set so I can make it available for the purchase to the listeners of Old Christian Radio.

Volume 1's individual songs were divided as themes. When I played music from Volume 1... I would combine a theme's respective group of songs together and played them as one track. This is because many of the individual songs were often too short for "single song" air play. Also, the original records did not divide the songs nor the themes. I had to find the dividing lines and break them up as themes when I made a CD master (of Volume 1) for the station library.

Volume II has it's song themes divided as individual tracks.

The message inside the CD cover reads...
Selecting particular sacred songs for the Hymns Triumphant Series has proven to be at once more private and yet less personal that I first thought it would be. The process of choosing the hymns refuses to remain a simple selection of personal favorites for very long. Very quickly, more connected currents of thought come to direct the flow. These currents inevitably reflect themes that have always been close to the surface of this vast hymn reservoir through the ages - a reservoir of musical and spiritual inspiration that is always renewing itself.

Hymn singing - regardless of the scale of its setting - remains an ever-meaningful worship experience for every Christian. Whether it is a small family gathered around an old upright piano, or a huge congregation flanked by a grand pipe organ and massive choir, the intensity of the expression is of the same high level. Hymns offer praise and thanksgiving to God, reflecting man's most spiritual feelings in a triumphant celebration of worship.

Hymns Triumphant I is that kind of celebration, carried to a grand symphonic level, yet never tempering with the traditional melodies and harmonies of the hymns it encompasses. A full orchestra and a trained 100-voice choir perform them here in unifying medleys, relating each to a thought perfectly expressed in "The Lord's Prayer". Grand orchestral introductions, endings and transitional passages thus frame, with artistic beauty, the basic structure of each traditional expression of worship to form one body of work we call a "symphonic choral suite". This Lee Holdridge-arranged work reflects its fullest glory, however, when used as a setting for a participatory hymn sing-a-long. For its intended audience to none other than God. And His living worship is the ultimate triumphant performance.

With Hymns Triumphant II, each medley of hymns came to express a particular triumph -- The Triumph of the Christian Life. This specific theme has been even triumphed over time itself. One of the hymns here survives from the 8th century. While many of these selections are 18th and 19th century American hymns, it is my hope that Volume II will triumph over distance as well - serving as a setting for sing-a-long participation. Lee Holdridge's orchestrations once again lend to a contemporary dignity of classic proportions to these hymns of the church. The Christian world chares both a common and yet uncommon heritage of triumph in our hymns. I invite you to share it again and again through the timeless examples of all our highest hopes and deepest inspirations.

Billy Ray Hearn