During Easter week we will post a variety of recordings of sacred music. Please share the news with your friends.
When I survey the wondrous Cross
The day before churches were shut down in Sydney, Australia, with a very reduced and socially-distanced St Andrew’s Cathedral Choir, very quickly recorded, several well-known hymns and psalms in the hope that you find them all useful in this difficult time when churches are unable to meet. The two hymns below following succession.
A live performance of the greatest Good Friday Hymn; Isaac Watt’s beautiful ‘When I survey the wondrous Cross’.
[[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCiucN8spqg ]
My Song is Love Unknown
A live performance of Samuel Crossman & John Ireland’s beautiful Passiontide hymn: ‘My Song is Love Unknown’.
[[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCiucN8spqg ]
This Joyful Eastertide
King’s College Cambridge.
[[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tipsbcfuB4 ]
Listen to King’s College Choir, free, on their website:
[ http://bit.ly/kingslisten ]
By Cool Siloam’s Shady Rill
The Glasgow Orpheus choir conducted by Sir Hugh Robertson sing the hymn tune, Belmont. The choir existed from 1901 to 1951. The choir disbanded as an act of respect on Sir Hugh’s death. The Glasgow Phoenix revived the tradition.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvVoTVllOY]
All in the April Evening
Arranged by Hugh S. Robertson. The Glasgow Phoenix Choir performing in the first concert following its restoration at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow. April 2011.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ojon1RJ4E]
It is Well with My Soul
Sung by the Wartburg Choir at First Plymouth Church, Lincoln Nebraska during the morning Worship Service. Lee Nelson, Conductor. Tom Trenney, Organist.
In 1871, Chicago was largely destroyed by fire. During reconstruction, Mr. H. G. Spafford sent his wife and four daughters on a trip to Europe, but the ship on which his family sailed never reached further than half way across the Atlantic, when in the middle of a November night the ship was rammed by a sailing vessel and cut in two. Mrs. Spafford saw all four of her daughters swept away by angry waves. A falling mast knocked her unconsciense.
She was rescued and taken to Wales, from there she cabled two words to her husband…. saved… alone. Mr. Spafford took the first ship available and asked the Captain to notify him when they reached the spot where his daughters lay. It was 3 am when the skipper knocked at his door and said “in ten minutes,…. we’ll be at your spot.”
Mr. Spafford dressed and went to the bow. As the ship passed over the watery graves of his daughters,….. he wrote on the back of an envelope these words…. When peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,,, it is well ,, it is well, with my soul.
[[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyPEohF6qq8 ]
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square present “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” lyrics by Charles Wesley, arranged by John Rutter.
[[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFjnlBn0K10 ]