Hope is Our Song - Music CD

Hope is our Song – Music CD

Hope Is Our Song is an expansive and theologically adventurous collection, gathering a wide range of contemporary New Zealand hymn writers whose work spans creation care, peace, lament, resurrection hope, global justice, and the renewing work of God in community.

The hymns have bold imagery, honest emotion, and a willingness to address modern social challenges within a framework of Christian hope.

Its language is poetic yet grounded, consistently pointing towards healing, reconciliation, and God’s transforming presence.

Ministers and worship leaders will find this book an abundant resource for shaping services that speak credibly into today’s world, invite congregational participation, and hold together beauty, justice, and faith.

Description

27 track CD featuring recordings by Viva Voce

Note: This CD does not contain recordings of all 158 hymns in the book, just a selection.

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Details and track list

27 songs recorded, with John Rosser conducting, and Michael Bell (organist at St Matthew in the City, Auckland) playing organ and piano accompaniments.

Viva Voce is a leading Auckland-based chamber choir. With 25 years of performances and recordings to its name, Viva Voce aims for ‘excellence and entertainment’ in their programming, and now, with this CD, the word ‘inspiration’ can be added, completing a trinitarian foundation for their vocal offerings.

Recorded at St Michael’s Catholic Church, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand, on 29 July, 3 and 5 August, 2010.

1. God bless our land (Shirley Murray/Barry Brinson)
2. Always there’s a carol (Shirley Murray/Colin Gibson)
3. Here in the busy city (Shirley Murray/Barry Brinson)
4. Peace be with you (Shirley Murray/Barry Brinson)
5. From this holy time (Marnie Barrell/Barry Brinson)
6. Honour the dead/Hymn for Anzac Day (Shirley Murray/Colin Gibson)
7. Lord Jesus, look on this we do (John Paisley/Colin Gibson)
8. Companions, let us pray together (David Clark, Witi Ihimaera/David Hamilton)
9. Matthew was a lonely man (Colin Gibson/John Gibson)
10. Let us go in your peace/Pauatahanui Blessing (Shirley Murray/Jillian Bray)
11. God of ages (Jocelyn Marshall/Christopher Marshall)
12. O God, to you I cry in pain (Shirley Murray/Jillian Bray)
13. On a cool and autumn dawn (Bill Bennett/Bill Bennett)
14. My heart is leaping/Mary’s Song (Marion Kitchingman/Barry Brinson)
15. E te Ariki (Traditional/Wi-Patena Te Pairi)
16. All will be well (William Wallace/Alison Carey)
17. Look in wonder (Shirley Murray/Jim Strathdee)
18. Beautiful presence (Joy Cowley/Barry Brinson)
19. God was in Christ (Shirley Murray/Colin Gibson)
20. In what strange land (Shirley Murray/Colin Gibson)
21. Thank you for the night Jenny McLeod/Jenny McLeod)
22. Nothing, nothing in all creation/Hope is our song (Shirley Murray/Barry Brinson)
23. In the name of Christ (Colin Gibson/Colin Gibson)
24. Wisdom far beyond our knowledge (Colin Gibson/Colin Gibson)
25. Christ ascends to God/A Hymn for Ascension (Marnie Barrell/Barry Brinson)
26. Christ has changed the world’s direction/Peacemakers’ Hymn (Shirley Murray/Barry Brinson)
27. Where the light of Easter Day (Shirley Murray/Jillian Bray)