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Music : The English Hymn 4 - All Things Bright and Beautiful
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The English Hymn 4 - All Things Bright and Beautiful from: Hyperion List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £7.98 You Save: £2.01 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0034571121048 Label: Hyperion Manufacturer: Hyperion Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Hyperion Release Date: May 05, 2003 Running Time: 64 minutes Studio: Hyperion Sales Rank: 26346 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - English Hymns 4 - Worth the Strange LooksDespite receiving strange looks from my husband, I played the above at full volume to get the benefit of the beautiful orchestration and vocals. I wouldn't have put myself down as a huge fan of choral works, so it's either a sign of getting old or just that I have such fond memories of singing hymns at school [which, incidentally, I probably thought I hated at the time]; but I felt the hairs rise on the back of my neck as I listened to songs I haven't heard for 30 years, such as He Who Would Valiant Be and When a Knight Won His Spurs. I felt quite sad listening to this CD and realising that due to current education policy, my own children will never become familiar with hymns like these, which are often poetic and moving ... Read More: Rating: - Excellent performance, if with specialist appealI can imagine how this recording would have limited appeal, even within a series with a specialist audience. In Australia at any rate the singing of traditional children's hymns has long since fallen out of favour. Indeed, traditional hymns, that is, 19th century Protestant hymns, have become decidedly unpopular as trendy clerics have replaced them with tuneless but rhythmic songs with 'youth appeal' in a vain bid to halt the rapid decline in church attendances. My generation – now middle-aged -- is probably the last (in Australia) raised on children's hymns, those staples of the morning service (second hymn) and Sunday School. And highly popular they were in the past. I still have the book I used as the Sunday School pianist – ... Read More: |
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