Love So Amazing / Murray, Christ Church Cambridge, Church of the Redeemer

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Label
Affetto Records
Release Date
May 24, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FORSTER, STUART
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      The Choirs Of Christ Church Cambridge Ma & Church Of The Redeemer Chestnut Hill Ma
    • PERFORMER
      Forster, Foley
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 24, 2019
    • UPC
      888295877770
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AF1901
    • LABEL
      Affetto Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Adult Contemporary
    Works ⌄

    1. Jesus Christ is Risen Today (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    2. Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    3. Amazing Grace (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    4. New Songs of Celebration Render (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Louis Bourgeois

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    5. Come down, O Love Divine (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    6. For All the Saints (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    7. He Is Risen (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Joachim Neander

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    8. Sing, Ye Faithful, Sing with Gladness (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: John Ellerton

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    9. Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Robert Williams

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    10. All Creatures of Our God and King (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    11. 9 Motets: I heard the voice of Jesus say (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    12. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    13. Lord, You Give the Great Commission (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Cyril Vincent Taylor

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    14. When in Our Music God Is Glorified (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    15. O God of Earth and Altar (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    16. Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    17. Be Thou My Vision (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    18. Angel-Voices Ever Singing (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Edwin George Monk

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray

    19. Jerusalem (arr. S. Forster for choir and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Ensemble: Massachusetts Christ Church Choir Cambridge, Massachusetts Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill

      Performer: Joseph Foley, Dana Oakes, Zebediah Upton, Hans Bohn, Gregory Spirodopoulos, Kenneth Amis, Stuart Forster, Robert Schulz

      Conductor: Michael S. Murray


Hymn singing is fundamental in protestant churches, but not normally the subject of an album released worldwide. The musicianship presented here is singular, sung by two volunteer choirs with power and emotion. The inspired arrangements heard on this recording have developed over decades of working with wonderful choirs and congregations, as well as by singing with, and listening to, many inspired colleagues. Some of the descants were conceived for particular services, while other arrangements grew further for special occasions. Several of the brass arrangements were composed for the ordination and consecration of the Rt. Rev. Alan Gates as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in 2014. Australians Michael S. Murray and Stuart Forster have worked together for more than 20 years, including conducting and accompanying in one another’s Episcopal churches, Christ Church in Cambridge and Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, located on opposite sides of the river Charles in Boston, Massachusetts, and during choir tours throughout America and Europe. Waiting and planning for the right moment to share their combined parish traditions of engaged singing from the vast legacy of hymnody bestowed upon the Anglican tradition has been fulfilled in this album. The installation of the exquisite Schoenstein organ at Church of the Redeemer, the restoration of the acoustic in Henry Vaughan’s exquisite architecture, and the publication of some of Stuart Forster’s hymn arrangements made the timing just right. What you will hear on this album is a superlative combined choir of about eighty voices singing some of the best-known hymns accompanied by a newly designed organ as they’ve never been heard before.