Various composers

Praise my soul

Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212054529

Catalog number: SIGCD 545
Releasedate: 02-11-18

- First disc under choral director Richard Pinel

- Praise my soul celebrates this glorious tradition of hymnody and showcases some of the hymns heard in Jesus College Chapel in their own regular pattern of choral services.

- Mixture of hymns including Drop, drop, slow tears and Glory to thee, my God, this night that might have been sung regularly for hundreds of years. Others such as All my hope on God is founded or Christ Triumphant have only become classics over the last half-century

The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge return to disc on Signum with their seventh release, and their first under choral director Richard Pinel.

Hymns are a living link with the past, yet they still find freshness and relevance in the twenty- first century. Saint Thomas Aquinas comments that ‘hymns are the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice’ and this explains neatly the vital place that hymnody has enjoyed throughout the ages, and continues to do so today.

Praise my soul celebrates this glorious tradition of hymnody and showcases some of the hymns heard in Jesus College Chapel in their own regular pattern of choral services. Some of these, including Drop, drop, slow tears and Glory to thee, my God, this night have been sung regularly for hundreds of years. Others such as All my hope on God is founded or Christ Triumphant have become classics over the last half-century.