Choir Hymns Mp3 Download ((LINK)) Mixtape
Liese Scarp
This disc features some of our nation's most loved hymns and we hope that you'll agree that no better expression of the joy engendered by a goodly number of voices singing these hymns may be found than in the grand forces of the Huddersfield Choral Society. Our range attempts to cover an unaffected, pure lyricism through to a vast, full-throated sound that might shake the rafters of the sturdiest church.
The Society's busy schedule is centred on its own subscription concert season in Huddersfield Town Hall, including its annual performances of Messiah. The choir also performs in other major concert venues in the UK and abroad, it regularly broadcasts for BBC radio and television, and has a long history of pioneering recordings.
With Christmas rapidly approaching, we thought this would be a good time for a quick rewind and review of 10 new songs for Christmas 2023! Below, we've put together a "mixtape" of some of our best and brightest new Christmas music that includes solos, choral anthems, praise & worship, children's, and instrumental pieces. These beautiful new selections would be excellent additions to your worship services this Christmas!
Perfect for this most wonderful time of the year, these excellent pieces will encourage your congregation in worship as we lift our voices to the Lord. With arrangements by Bradley Knight, Phillip Keveren, Regi Stone, and others, these stunning songs with a heartfelt message present contemporary, traditional and blended offerings that celebrate the birth of Christ. Be sure to check them out and consider adding some of these gems to your church services this Christmas season!
SATB w/ SOLOIST (MEDIUM DIFFICULTY)
Holy Is the Lord
Holy Is the Lord (w/ orchestra)
Arranged by Bradley Knight, Regi Stone
A simple song of praise that grows into a majestic anthem of worship, this piece is arranged for SATB choir with female soloist. While written with Christmas in mind, it fits easily into any season. [Orchestration available to Unlimited Plus members.]
The BYU Men's Chorus is the largest collegiate men's choir in the nation. Conducted by Rosalind Hall, they serve as one of the pillars of the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communication's performing groups, with 180 members and decades of rich, musical history. The choir hopes to spread joyful messages to everyone with the download of this original arrangement of crowd-favorite, "Savior, Redeemer of My Soul." Rosalind Hall, the director of the BYU Men's Chorus, considers this particular song an ideal gift to missionaries and to the world this Christmas.
Hall feels this song took on new significance when many in Men's Chorus choose to sing it as their audition piece. Hall soon asked retired faculty member Ronald Staheli to personally arrange and conduct this hymn for her choir members because she knew that no one else would write a more beautiful arrangement.
Notable arrangers for the hymns, including Daniel McDavitt, Matthew D. Nielsen, David Zabriskie, Lane Johnson, Rob Gardner and Ron Staheli generously forfeited licensing rights so the BYU Men's Chorus could offer the hymns on the album for free.
President Nelson attended the recording session in May 2018 when the hymn was being recorded for the album. The prophet sat amongst a sea of quilts and blankets, brought in by the choir to absorb sound during the recording. He addressed the choir following the recording.
The choir, which started recording in 1910, first hit the Billboard charts in 1959 with their rendition of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which climbed all the way to #13 on "The Hot 100." Since then, they have had 13 albums hit No. 1 on one or more of Billboard's "Classical," "Classical Crossover," and "Christian" charts, including This Is the Christ, Glory! Music of Rejoicing, Heavensong: Music of Contemplation and Light, and He Is Risen.
The first hymns album from the Choir in seven years, Let Us All Press On, features beloved classics like "All Creatures of Our God and King" and "More Holiness Give Me." The rousing title track, "Let Us All Press On," is a fresh arrangement by Richard Elliott first performed after Russell M. Nelson's historic address by the same name in the spring of 2018.
The hymn tunes can be old folk songs adopted and adapted for church use, utilising new texts to suit their new purpose or they might be melodies from popular music, oratorios or other quasi-religious works. A further sub-set comprises those tunes composed afresh with a particular text in mind. All of these melodies, in turn, may be arranged and harmonised, for whatever forces are available, by anybody from a keen amateur, the local choirmaster and collegiate choral specialists to the very greatest of composers.
No better expression of the joy engendered by a goodly number of voices singing these hymns may be found than in the grand forces of the Huddersfield Choral Society. Their range covers an unaffected, pure lyricism through to a vast, full-throated sound that might shake the rafters of the sturdiest church.
Huddersfield Choral Society is a choir based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1836, and is recognised as one of Britain's leading choirs.[1] Over the years the choir has performed most of the major works in the choral repertoire, and has had numerous works commissioned for it, including works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and William Walton.[2] The choir has made numerous recordings and broadcasts.[3][4][5] Two of its albums made an appearance in the UK Albums Chart. These were The Hymns Album (1986, #8) and The Carols Album (1986, #29).[6]
The choir performs regularly with the leading orchestras in the north of England, including the Orchestra of Opera North, The Hallé, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and the Northern Sinfonia. The choir performs with many leading conductors, known by the choir as their 'family' of conductors instead of having one Principal Conductor. Martyn Brabbins is Music Director of the society and other notable conductors to work with the choir regularly include: Vasily Petrenko, Bramwell Tovey and Jane Glover (a former Principal Conductor and former Principal Guest Conductor of the choir).
In August 2016 Huddersfield Choral Society appointed Gregory Batsleer as Choral Director. The team is completed by Associate Choral Director Fanny Cook, Accompanist and Assistant Chorusmaster Daniel Gordon, deputy Accompanist Malcolm Hinchcliffe and Musical Director of the youth choirs Alison North.
Chapelwood's Music Ministry is an energetic, diverse collection of choral ensembles, handbell choirs, instrumentalists, orchestra, and worship leaders whose styles are as varied as the worship services themselves. From the Children's Choir program through adult Chancel Choir, there is a place for anyone who wishes to participate. You are invited to become part of Chapelwood's Music Ministry and experience the presence of God through the melodies and harmonies of beautiful, meaningful music.
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