Holy Gifts~
Stephen DeanHoly Gifts gathers 16 songs from the past ten years.
Both accessible and adventurous, the songs cover Christmas, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Pentecost and Ordinary Time. Cantors and choirs will find arrangements that are intricate and rewarding. Accompaniment is primarily piano or organ, and there are parts for woodwinds, brass and strings.
The collection includes hymns, three responsorial psalms, a Gospel acclamation and music for the Liturgy of the Hours and the sacraments. A versatile piece for Holy Thursday, "Faith, Hope and Love" offers the choice of two texts, verses from the Mandatum and the "Ubi Caritas".
Inspired by the idea of sancta sanctis, "holy things (or gifts) for holy people," from eastern liturgies, the title song is a dignified processional chant for Communion. Other highlights include "May Love Be Ours", with text by Timothy Dudley Smith, and "Only the Shepherds", a Christmas song set to a beautiful Catalan melody.
Holy Gifts will provide both small parishes and cathedrals with new works to welcome into their repertoire.
The CD is performed by singers from St Mary’s and Trinity Cathedrals, Portland, and top-class local instrumentalists, and is intended as a listening experience in itself.
Contents:
A Lamp for My Steps/You Have Laid Down Your Precepts (Psalm 119)
Alleluia! Hear the Word
Come, Holy Spirit
Faith, Hope and Love
Holy Gifts
Holy Spirit, Come Confirm Us
How Can We Sing with Joy to God
If I, Your Lord and Master
In God’s Good Time
Long Ago in Depths of Winter
May Love Be Ours
Now the Day Has Drawn to Ending
Only the Shepherds
Proclaim the Wonders of the Lord
Weep Not for Me
20377 Holy Gifts (CD) £13.25~Stephen Dean
Holy Gifts gathers 16 songs from the past ten years.
Both accessible and adventurous, the songs cover Christmas, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Pentecost and Ordinary Time. Cantors and choirs will find arrangements that are intricate and rewarding. Accompaniment is primarily piano or organ, and there are parts for woodwinds, brass and strings.
The collection includes hymns, three responsorial psalms, a Gospel acclamation and music for the Liturgy of the Hours and the sacraments. A versatile piece for Holy Thursday, "Faith, Hope and Love" offers the choice of two texts, verses from the Mandatum and the "Ubi Caritas".
Inspired by the idea of sancta sanctis, "holy things (or gifts) for holy people," from eastern liturgies, the title song is a dignified processional chant for Communion. Other highlights include "May Love Be Ours", with text by Timothy Dudley Smith, and "Only the Shepherds", a Christmas song set to a beautiful Catalan melody.
Holy Gifts will provide both small parishes and cathedrals with new works to welcome into their repertoire.
The CD is performed by singers from St Mary’s and Trinity Cathedrals, Portland, and top-class local instrumentalists, and is intended as a listening experience in itself.
Contents:
A Lamp for My Steps/You Have Laid Down Your Precepts (Psalm 119)
Alleluia! Hear the Word
Come, Holy Spirit
Faith, Hope and Love
Holy Gifts
Holy Spirit, Come Confirm Us
How Can We Sing with Joy to God
If I, Your Lord and Master
In God’s Good Time
Long Ago in Depths of Winter
May Love Be Ours
Now the Day Has Drawn to Ending
Only the Shepherds
Proclaim the Wonders of the Lord
Weep Not for Me
20377 Holy Gifts (CD) £13.25~Holy Gifts (CD)|3768|~5218~5219~~