Revival - CD
Traditional Hymns for Contemporary Ensembles
2017
Item #: CD-1012 Status: Available
Description:
Our best-selling resource at NPM 2017!
Revival is a long overdue resource that provides fresh accessible arrangements of classic hymns for contemporary ensembles. Each arrangement is scored for SAB choir, piano, guitar, and optional instrumental parts. For added texture, the final stanza of each hymn includes an alternate harmonization of the accompaniment with a soprano descant. These fourteen arrangements will open a whole new set of treasured hymns to piano and guitar based ensembles. Compatible with the versions founds in GIA’s most recent hymnals, each of these arrangements is intended to support and inspire the sung prayer of the assembly. Every one will find a comfortable home in your repertoire throughout the liturgical year!
A special spiral bound edition of Revival is also available. This edition is perfect for accompanists who would also like to use these hymn arrangements as preludes, interludes, or postludes.
Collections like Revival are not simply a way for contemporary ensembles to plant deeper roots and tap into more traditional repertoires. It is a way for all of us to hear old hymns with new ears, in a new way.
--Don Saliers, Professor of Theology and Worship at the Candler School of Theology
In his new collection, Revival, Tony Alonso marks the 500th anniversary of a great divide in the church by bridging the chasm between Catholic and Protestant, contemporary and traditional, Appalachian and European. His arrangements for voices, piano, and guitar—with options for using other instruments as well—allow for improvisation and adaptation while remaining accessible for a wide range of musicians. Although these hymns are designed to be used by contemporary ensembles, they lend themselves to use in a variety of worshiping contexts. Alonso's arrangements will entice you to sing along--Revival is a great gift to the whole church!
--Kimberly Bracken Long, Editor of Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching, & the Arts
Tony Alonso’s, Revival, is an invaluable resource to help find common ground among “contemporary” and “traditional” choirs and ensembles by making hymnody approachable to those who may have shied away from it for stylistic reasons. It is also a great educational tool for organists and pianists who are seeking ways to improve their improvisatory keyboard skills by modeling accompaniment styles and improvisatory patterns that support and enhance the singing of traditional hymns.
--Dominic Trumfio, Associate Director of Worship Music at Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago
Format: CD
TRACKS INCLUDED ON ALBUM
| TITLE | ARTIST | TIME | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Praise to the Lord, the Almighty | Tony Alonso | 2:12 | ||
| How Firm a Foundation | Tony Alonso | 2:41 | ||
| Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! | Tony Alonso | 3:11 | ||
| Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence | Tony Alonso | 3:16 | ||
| Come, Holy Ghost | Tony Alonso | 2:21 | ||
| The King of Love My Shepherd Is | Tony Alonso | 3:38 | ||
| Come, You Sinners, Poor and Needy | Tony Alonso | 2:45 | ||
| Christ the Lord is Risen Today | Tony Alonso | 3:29 | ||
| Jerusalem, My Happy Home | Tony Alonso | 4:01 | ||
| Comfort, Comfort, O My People | Tony Alonso | 1:57 | ||
| For the Beauty of the Earth | Tony Alonso | 4:16 | ||
| Come, You Thankful People, Come | Tony Alonso | 3:31 | ||
| Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days | Tony Alonso | 2:44 | ||
| Alleluia, Sing to Jesus | Tony Alonso | 3:39 |