The Ultimate Gospel Choir Book 5

A superb and comprehensive collection of gospels and spirituals for Gospel choirs, containing a selection of classic favourites and rarer treasures in this bright and soulful idiom. The Ultimate Gospel Book Volume 1 contains 30 lively, invigorating songs which are all in delightful settings for Mixed Choir SATB, arranged by Jeff Guillen. CONTENT: Amen, Balm In Gilead, Burden Down, By An By, Certainly, Come And Go, Deep River, Didn t My Lord Deliver Daniel, Down By the Riverside, Free At Last, Goin to Set Down, Good News, The Gospeltrain, He s Got the Whole World, Hold On, I Know the Lord, Joshua Fight the Battle of Jericho, Let Us Break Bread, Lord, Lord, Lord, Rocks on the Mountains, Roll Jordan, Somebody s Knocking, Sometimes I Feel, Steal Away, There s a Meeting, Trampin , Wade In the Water, Walk Together Children, Were You There, When the Stars Begin to Fall.

To what God shall we chant our songs of battle? was commissioned by James O’Donnell and Westminster Abbey for a service of solemn commemoration on 4 August 2014 marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.Stark and gritty yet always rooted in tonality Matthews’s expressive harmonies bring a potent immediacy to the bitter disillusioned words of war poet Harold Monro and the two lyrical solos for soprano and tenor which set passages from the Book of Lamentations and St Luke’s Gospel. Beginning with a violent and impassioned energy this anthem ultimately offers little consolation. In the words of James O’Donnell it ‘leaves you standing on theedge of an abyss’ its impetus petering out in a series of hushed troubled questions.