This 23rd volume completes the ambitious project of recording the entire contents of The New English Hymnal (1986), the official hymnal of the Church of England. Priory Records, an English label that focuses on church music, uses a different British parish choir for each volume, and here the featured ensemble is the Choir of St. Chad's (Roman Catholic) Cathedral, Birmingham, led by David Saint, with organist Nigel Morris. Scanning the contents of the earlier volumes doesn't reveal any discernible pattern in the ways the ...
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This 23rd volume completes the ambitious project of recording the entire contents of The New English Hymnal (1986), the official hymnal of the Church of England. Priory Records, an English label that focuses on church music, uses a different British parish choir for each volume, and here the featured ensemble is the Choir of St. Chad's (Roman Catholic) Cathedral, Birmingham, led by David Saint, with organist Nigel Morris. Scanning the contents of the earlier volumes doesn't reveal any discernible pattern in the ways the hymns were selected for each release, but this final installment is primarily devoted to alternative tunes to the more familiar settings of the texts. Very few of the tunes are likely to be familiar to any but the most ardent hymnophile, with a few exceptions like "Jesu, Lover of my soul" (Parry's Abersystwith), "The King of love my shepherd is" (J.B. Dyke's Dominus regit me), and "When morning gilds the skies" (Joseph Barnby's Laudes Domini). The hymns are presumably sung complete,...
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