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Trouble The Water
$29.95“Wade in the Water” is a well-known spiritual that was one of the songs associated with the Underground Railroad. Since its first commercial recording in 1925 by the Sunset Four Jubilee Singers, it has been widely performed and recorded.
This arrangement stylistically emulates the theme of the popular 2017 television show The Chosen, which also uses this same spiritual. The title is taken from the last line of the song: “God’s gonna trouble the water.”
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King and Lord of All
$29.95“All My Heart I Give Thee” was the first song ever written by Harry Davis, and it was published in The War Cry in 1880, set to a tune by Robert Lowry.
The lyrics of this song express devotion to serving God in everything. This ensemble arrangement uses the text of the first verse and chorus and takes its title from the last line of the verse.
Jesus, precious Savior, thou hast saved my soul,
From sin’s foul corruption made me fully whole;
Every hour I’ll serve thee, whate’er may befall,
Till in Heaven I crown thee King and Lord of all.
All my heart I give thee,
Day by day, come what may.
All my life I give thee,
Dying men to save.
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I Vow to Thee, My Country
$29.95“I Vow the Thee, My Country” is a British patriotic hymn based on a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1908). Gustav Holst wrote the tune “Thaxted,” which is taken from the “Jupiter” movement of his own suite The Planets (1917).
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March from “Scipione”
$29.95This march, from George Frideric Handel’s opera Scipione was composed in 1725 and received its first public performance a year later in England. The march appears in the last section of the opera’s overture and again at the start of the action. This is lively music from the late Baroque period and has often been rescored for solo instruments as well as large ensembles.
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Lonesome Valley
$29.95This folksong-like melody has been appearing in hymnals for many years as “Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley.” Its origins are shrouded in obscurity and can be traced to the Appalachian mountains of the southeastern United States.
The refrain of the song includes these words:
Jesus walked this lonesome valley; he had to walk it by himself.
Oh, nobody else could walk it for him; he had to walk it by himself. -
Listen To The Lambs
$29.95One of the lesser-known American spirituals, “Listen To The Lambs,” was first published in 1914. Perhaps one of its most lasting recordings was made in 1955, sung a capella by the Tuskegee Institute Choir.
The text is drawn from an older spiritual, “I Want To Go To Heaven When I Die.” Here, it is given a rhythmic setting featuring a light Latin rhythmic backing to its haunting melody.
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Prelude on “Ripton”
$29.95Here is a meditative study on Sir Hubert Parry’s beloved hymn tune, “Repton.” Parry set his melody to the words of American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, and over many decades it has become a beloved hymn, particularly in the United Kingdom.
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Still With Thee
$29.95The hymnal basis for this music is a melody penned by Ira D. Sankey in 1894. It was published in 1913 in a book titled “Service Songs for Young People’s Societies, Sunday Schools and Church Prayer Meetings.”
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