Best Loved Hymns

~ Release by Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

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1All My Hope on God Is Founded
recording of:
Michael: "All my hope on God is founded"
lyricist:
Joachim Neander
composer:
Herbert Howells (English composer) (in 1930)
translator:
Robert Bridges (poet)
5:05
2Praise My Soul the King of Heaven
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
recording of:
Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven!
lyricist:
Henry Francis Lyte
composer:
Sir John Goss (English organist and composer)
2:54
3Morning Has Broken
recording of:
Morning Has Broken
lyricist:
Eleanor Farjeon
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Cat Music Ltd., EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), Freshwater Music Ltd., Irving Music, Inc., Island Music Ltd. and Island Music, Inc. (work publisher – NOT related to the Island imprint now owned by UMG)
is based on:
Bunessan (Scottish hymn tune)
1:50
4Come Down, O Love Divine
harp:
Sioned Williams (harpist)
organ:
Thomas Williamson
piano:
Tom Williamson
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom (on 2000-03-24)
recording of:
Come down, O love divine (tune: Down Ampney)
lyricist:
Bianco da Siena
composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
translator:
Richard Frederick Littledale
3:44
5A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
assistant producer:
Kerry Brown (alto choir vocalist)
brass:
The Wallace Collection (brass ensemble)
organ:
Tom Williamson
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom (on 2000-01-01)
recording of:
Kantate, BWV 80 "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott": VIII. Choral "Das Wort sie sollen lassen stahn" (on 2000-01-01)
lyricist:
Martin Luther (German theologian of the Reformation)
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach (German Baroque period composer & musician) (from 1715 until 1730)
part of:
Breitkopf 389 Choralgesänge (number: 76)
part of:
Kantate, BWV 80 "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"
5:14
6O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be
assistant producer:
Kerry Brown (alto choir vocalist)
organ:
Benjamin Bayl (conductor)
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
O what their joy and their glory must be (on 2000-01-01)
composer:
William Harris (British composer)
recording of:
O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be (Hymn with tune 'Regnator Orbis')
lyricist:
Pierre Abélard
composer:
Thomas Helmore and François de La Feillée (composer)
translator:
John Mason Neale
is based on:
Regnator Orbis (hymn tune)
7:55
7When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
organ:
Benjamin Bayl (conductor)
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham: Miller setting 1790) (on 2000-01-01)
lyricist:
Isaac Watts (hymn writer)
composer:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Edward Miller (British composer)
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 95)
arrangement of:
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (1707 Original)
3:33
8Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
organ:
Tom Williamson
baritone vocals:
Thomas Bullard
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (on 2000-01-01)
lyricist:
John Greenleaf Whittier
composer:
Hubert Parry (English composer) (in 1888)
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 353)
3:59
9Be Thou My Vision
harp:
Sioned Williams (harpist)
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
Be Thou My Vision (English translation of traditional Irish hymn) (on 2000-01-01)
lyricist:
6th or 8th Century Irish Hymn ([traditional], special purpose artist)
composer:
Irish Folk melody ([traditional], special purpose artist)
additional translator:
Eleanor Hull (helped translate “Be Thou My Vision”) (from 1912 to present)
translator:
Mary Elizabeth Byrne (Irish linguist) (from 1905 to present)
publisher:
Caledonia Publishing Ltd. and PolyGram Music Publishing Ltd.
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 339)
is based on:
Rop Tú Mo Baile (Old Irish hymn)
is based on:
Slane (Hymn tune based on Irish folk melody)
recording of:
Be Thou My Vision
composed in:
Ireland
lyrics written in:
Ireland (from 0700 until 0799)
lyricist:
8th Century Irish Hymn ([traditional], special purpose artist)
writer:
Michael Card (in 1998)
composer:
Irish Folk melody ([traditional], special purpose artist)
strings arranger:
Craig Duncan (in 1998)
arrangement of:
Be Thou My Vision (English translation of traditional Irish hymn)
4:35
10The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended
organ:
Benjamin Bayl (conductor)
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended (on 2000-03-24)
lyricist:
John Ellerton (hymn writer)
composer:
Reverend Clement Cotterill Scholefield
3:24
11Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
assistant producer:
Kerry Brown (alto choir vocalist)
organ:
Benjamin Bayl (conductor)
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Vaughan Williams arrangement of Picardy) (on 2000-01-01)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1906)
translator:
Gerard Moultrie
is based on:
Picardy (Hymn tune)
4:09
12Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation
recording of:
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Lobe den Herren)
lyricist:
Joachim Neander
composer:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
translator:
Catherine Winkworth
3:14
13My Song Is Love Unknown
assistant producer:
Kerry Brown (alto choir vocalist)
organ:
Tom Williamson
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
My song is love unknown (Hymn) (on 2000-01-01)
lyricist:
Samuel Crossman (Hymn-writer)
composer:
John Ireland (English composer)
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 86)
part of:
The Way of the Cross (Book)
3:28
14The Lord's My Shepherd
harp:
Sioned Williams (harpist)
baritone vocals:
Thomas Bullard
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
The Lord's My Shepherd (Psalm 23 set with tune Brother James's Air) (on 2000-01-01)
lyricist:
Jessie Seymour Irvine
composer:
James Leith MacBeth Bain
is based on:
Brother James's Air
2:45
15Thine Be the Glory
brass:
The Wallace Collection (brass ensemble)
instruments:
The Wallace Collection (brass ensemble)
organ:
Thomas Williamson and Tom Williamson
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
Thine be the glory (on 2000-01-01)
lyricist:
Edmond Louis Budry
composer:
George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer)
translator:
Richard Hoyle
version of:
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act III, no. 58: “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes” (Chorus of Youths, Chorus of Virgins)
3:02
16Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
recording of:
Drop, drop, slow tears
lyricist:
Phineas Fletcher
composer:
Orlando Gibbons (composer)
part of:
The Way of the Cross (Book)
1:21
17Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
assistant producer:
Kerry Brown (alto choir vocalist)
organ:
Benjamin Bayl (conductor)
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (Hymn with tune 'Abbot's Leigh') (from 2000-03-19 until 2000-03-24)
lyricist:
John Newton (English poet) (in 1779)
composer:
Cyril Vincent Taylor (in 1941)
3:54
18All People That on Earth Do Dwell
brass:
The Wallace Collection (brass ensemble)
organ:
Benjamin Bayl (conductor)
choir vocals:
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
conductor:
Stephen Cleobury (organist, conductor)
recorded at:
King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
recording of:
All People That on Earth Do Dwell (tune: Old Hundredth) (from 2000-03-19 until 2000-03-24)
lyricist:
William Kethe
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
recording of:
Old Hundredth (Psalm 100; arr. Vaughan Williams)
lyricist:
William Kethe
composer:
Loys Bourgeois (French renaissance composer)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1953)
is based on:
Old 100th (original tune)
5:05

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