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Werke von Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Joy to the World (1990) 16 Exemplare
It's Christmas (1989) 11 Exemplare
Peace Like a River (2004) 9 Exemplare
God Bless America (1992) 8 Exemplare
Ring Christmas Bells (2009) 7 Exemplare
Songs of the Civil War (1992) 7 Exemplare
Spirit of America (2003) 6 Exemplare
Come Come Ye Saints 5 Exemplare
Sing Choirs of Angels (2004) 5 Exemplare
Hymns of faith 5 Exemplare
The Wonder of Christmas (2006) 5 Exemplare
Rejoice & Be Merry (2008) 5 Exemplare
Rejoice and be merry! (2008) 4 Exemplare
O Divine Redeemer 4 Exemplare
Songs from the American Heartland — Choir — 4 Exemplare
Rock of Ages: 30 Great Hymns (1992) 3 Exemplare
Voices in Harmony (2006) 3 Exemplare
Glory! Music Of Rejoicing (2012) 3 Exemplare
Once Upon a Christmas (2012) 3 Exemplare
He Is Risen (2014) 2 Exemplare
Keep Christmas with You (2015) 2 Exemplare
Curtain Up 2 Exemplare
Let the Season in (2014) 2 Exemplare
The Lord's Prayer (1959) 2 Exemplare
Silent Night (1981) 2 Exemplare
Christmas Greetings 2 Exemplare
Consider the Lilies (2003) 2 Exemplare
Brahms: Requiem (1999) 2 Exemplare
O Come Little Children (2017) 2 Exemplare
Legacy Series Hymns of Faith 2 (2007) 2 Exemplare
Hallelujah! (2016) 1 Exemplar
This Is the Christ (2011) 1 Exemplar
Silent night 1 Exemplar
Nativity Story [VHS] (1996) 1 Exemplar
Hymns of Faith II 1 Exemplar
Holiday Favorites 1 Exemplar
Christmas classics 1 Exemplar
Called to Serve 1 Exemplar
Praise to the Man 1 Exemplar
America's Choir 1 Exemplar
Showtime! 1 Exemplar
An American Tribute (1986) 1 Exemplar
Christmas Gloria (1998) 1 Exemplar
Then sings my soul 1 Exemplar
Men of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir — Performer — 1 Exemplar
Sweet Hour of Prayer (cd) (2005) 1 Exemplar
God of our fathers 1 Exemplar
The Lord's prayer 1 Exemplar
Serenade 1 Exemplar
A Merry Little Christmas (2018) 1 Exemplar
Praise the Man (2009) 1 Exemplar
Live in Jerusalem 1 Exemplar
Songs of Faith 1 Exemplar
Amazing Grace (1996) 1 Exemplar
Down Memory Lane (1990) 1 Exemplar
Noel 1 Exemplar
Beloved Choruses 1 Exemplar
Sing Unto God 1 Exemplar
Ambassadors 1 Exemplar
Rock of ages 1 Exemplar

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Noël (2007) — Mitwirkender — 94 Exemplare
My Christmas [2008 album] (2009) — Mitwirkender — 41 Exemplare
Bach: Greatest Hits (1994) — Choir — 10 Exemplare
Ring Christmas Bells — Actor — 4 Exemplare
The Great Songs of Christmas (Goodyear Album Three) (1999) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
A Sibelius Festival [sound recording] (1965) — Performer — 1 Exemplar

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I love patriotic music. My eyes tear up when I'm at events and it is performed. Imagine my joy at finding this recording. From the opening of America the Beautiful to the closing of Call of the Champions, this is a superb collection. I love the inclusion of hymns and folk songs.

There are so many good songs that it is hard to choose my favorites. The arrangement of Bound for the Promised Land has to be the best I've heard. No one does Battle Hymn of the Republic better than the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand is beautifully sung. Who could resist George M. Cohan with Cohan's Big Three (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give My Regards to Broadway, and You're a Grand Old Flag)? Not I!

New to me were Distant Land; They, the Builders of the Nation; Hymn for America (written for the CD), and The Pledge of Allegiance (also written for the CD).

If you enjoy patriotic music, this is a must have!
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Jean_Sexton | Jan 8, 2017 |
If I could have only one recording by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (and that would be a great shame), it definitely would be this one. It was one of the very first LP's I ever purchased, and long one of my favorites. Unfortunately, it is not available on CD and my original copy is now damaged with use, so it was with considerable pleasure that I located a used one in very good condition. I shall treasure it all my life, and if my family does not have it playing in the background at my wake, I'll haunt them from then on.

There are ten selections on this recording, and together they make a remarkable concert. Each one develops the theme of "brotherhood" with pathos and yearning, with determination and pride. Besides the old faithfuls (in arrangements that are subtly original but still comfortably familiar) -- Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" set to music by Reginald de Koven, "God of Our Fathers" with a soaring soprano descant, the Navy hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" -- besides these, there are a number of less well known pieces, some by well known composers, all of them inspiring with just a hint of modern dissonance. "Ballad of Brotherhood" grows out of the work of Walt Whitman with allusions to several poems from Leaves of Grass, memorable for the bold chant, "Open road, open road" that underlines the tribute to US heroes. As a companion, the quiet, gripping Whitman poem, "Two Veterans," about a father and son, both slain in the Civil War, is set to music as a dirge by Gustav Holst, with a vivid melody, expressive dissonance from a male chorus, and the incessant beating of drums. Side One concludes with sections from Ralph Vaughan Williams' Thanksgiving for Victory, with treble voices as of a children's chorus singing the prayer that begins, "Father in Heav'n, who lovest all / O help Thy children when they call." The song concludes with the soft, haunting coda, "The Lord shall be thy everlasting light, / And the days of thy mourning shall be ended."

But, for me, the absolute highlight of the album is on Side Two: the Pilgrim's Chorus from Wagner's Tannhauser. The pulsating theme of earthly passion is played on the organ with increasing intensity as the pilgrims sing their homecoming hymn, concluding "Of hell and death I have no fear. / My gracious Lord is ever near," then the triumphant "Hallelujah! Hallelujah, eternally!, eternally!" One cannot but be moved by the power and grace of these words and contrapuntal melodies.

But perhaps the most vibrant statements of the central theme are also on Side Two: John Greenleaf Whittier's "O Brother Man" is simple and elegant. "O Brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; / Where pity dwells the peace of God is there; / To worship rightly is to love each other, / Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer." The selection chosen as the finale is Jean Sibelius' "Onward, Ye Peoples." As the notes suggest, this might well become a World Hymn of Brotherhood. It is charged with hope ("Onward, ye people, strive for the Light! / The Light that the Lord has given us for our guide") but also calm reassurance with the call of a heavenly choir from Mount Neboh ("Salem! Salem! Hark they call us / Upward and on to our Father's home."

I shall have this music digitized as quickly as possible, so that I can play it over and over again. In times like these -- Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Katrina, Haiti, the BP oil spill, the political nastiness in DC and hateful prejudice spewing across the land (against homosexuals, immigrants, the jobless and homeless, progressives, President Obama) -- in times like these, the sense of family, of brotherhood and sisterhood, seems lost beyond the horizon. These songs and hymns are a quiet but insistent reminder of who we are and the heights we could reach as a people. Salem! Salem!
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