If We Pray

Track Listings
1. Ashley's Prayer    
2. If We Pray    
3. One Fine Day    
4. You'll Never Thirst    
5. Rejoice    
6. I'm Praying for You    
7. Monty's Prayer    
8. Things I Wish    
9. Nothing Can Stop You from Loving Me    
10. Time for Everything    
11. That'll Do It    
12. Let Me Be Love    
13. Monty's Amen    

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Purcell: Theatre Music
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Fine reissue of a classic set
 Purcell: Theatre Music

Manufacturer: Decca
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ASIN: B0001Y4JHA
Release Date: 2004-10-12

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fine reissue of a classic set.......2006-05-24

Think about the stupidest, most formulaic Hollywood movies you can think of: cheesy action pictures, fluffy, unfunny comedies, big but stiff epics. Now imagine that one of the greatest living composers was working in Hollywood, turning out astonishing, hauntingly beautiful and stirring musical scores for these throwaway movies. That's what you get with this set: music Henry Purcell composed for some two dozen often utterly forgettable plays (trust me--I've read a number of them!) Occasionally, when he teams up with a playwright worthy of his stature, such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, or William Congreve, the results are even better, but for the most part you can enjoy the music here without knowing anything about the original plays.

This set originally appeared as separate LPs in the 70s and 80s, and has been long out of print. That's a pity, since Purcell spent a good deal of his short professional life in the theatre, either writing the incidental music contained on these CDs, or the music for his larger works, the semi-operas (King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and the like). Almost all of these works are enjoyable gems; certainly, they represent a pinnacle of English 17th century music. Purcell had a genius for spinning musical gold out of the most leaden lyrics (check out his Odes and Welcome Songs on Hyperion if you don't believe me), and he does the same with the song texts in these plays.

Hogwood and the AAM offer clean, listenable performances, and the sound on these old analog discs has been cleaned up and brightened--although they were pretty good, even in the late 70s. As with most Hogwood, emotional extremes are kept to a minimum, so the "otherworldly" nature of late 17th century music, so often emphasised in more recent Baroque performances, doesn't come across here. It would be interesting to see what a group like The King's Consort would do with this music, but this set fills the major gap in the Purcell canon quite nicely.

My only beef with the reissue, as with many reissues, is that the liner notes are rather thin for a 6-cd set--the lyrics to the songs, for example, are especially missed. Still, it's a worthwhile set, and a must for fans of Purcell, English Baroque music, or anyone who just wants to experience a taste of the last days of the Restoration stage.
If We Pray
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Another Transition
 If We Pray
Anointed
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005QGAI
Release Date: 2001-10-16

Tracks:

  1. Ashley's Prayer
  2. If We Pray
  3. One Fine Day
  4. You'll Never Thirst
  5. Rejoice
  6. I'm Praying For You
  7. Monty's Prayer
  8. Things I Wish
  9. Nothing Can Stop You From Loving Me
  10. A Time For Everything
  11. That'll Do It
  12. Let Me Be Love
  13. Monty's Amen

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Another Transition.......2001-10-27

Although Nee-C is longer a member of the group, this CD shows that Anointed is not through yet. Highlights include "Things I Wish," "If We Pray," "I'm Praying for You," and "That'll Do It." Nee-C does contribute background vocals on one song and writing on two. This is a very spiritual album that proves Anointed is not forsaking it's roots.
If We Pray
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • CD is Anointed from Above...
  • One of the Best Gospel CD's I've every heard
  • Nice, but not as good as the last one...
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Manufacturer: Word Entertainment
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ASIN: B000067IO5
Release Date: 2002-07-02

Tracks:

  1. Ashley's Prayer
  2. If We Pray
  3. One Fine Day
  4. You'll Never Thirst
  5. Rejoice
  6. I'm Praying For You
  7. Monty's Prayer
  8. Things I Wish
  9. Nothing Can Stop You From Loving Me
  10. A Time For Everything
  11. That'll Do It
  12. Let Me Be Love
  13. Monty's Amen

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars CD is Anointed from Above..........2007-01-04

I heard this group on a Chicago Christian Radio Station and loved it. This is a Great CD filled with inspirational songs that will blow you away. Great CD for when you are working out or taking a walk in the park!!!

5 out of 5 stars One of the Best Gospel CD's I've every heard.......2004-07-28

This group is a hidden jewel. Their music is inspirational and fun! I blast their CD in my car and role the windows down. I lost my first copy of the CD and have been searching for another one, I finally tried Amazon.com and I was overjoyed to find it. I highly reccomend this CD

5 out of 5 stars Nice, but not as good as the last one..........2003-02-24

The album starts off with the hot Latin flavored "If We Pray" and then the super inspirational, rapture-ready "One Fine Day". Next is the beautiful "You'll Never Thirst" then it continues into the happy "Rejoice" and then the thoughtful "I'm Praying For You". Later is the guitar-laden "Things I Wish", I'm not sure whether that one could be classified as a "gospel" song but it's nice. "Nothing Can Stop You From Loving Me" is a nice upbeat song about God's love. Then there's the Ecclesiastical "A Time For Everything". Then the hot joint from WoW Gospel 2001 the pre-released "That'll Do It" To end the album is the thought provoking "Let Me Be Love". Altogether a nice album, but not as good as the last one.

3 out of 5 stars Anointed.......2002-11-12

In my honest opinion, this CD is okay. However, it does bring back memories of my family's trip to Six Flags over Georgia, because that's all we listened to on the way there. I really do enjoy the words to the songs, because they mean a lot to me. I just think that the beats sound a bit worldly.
The English Anthem, Vol. 7
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • One of the best in the series
 The English Anthem, Vol. 7

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I4JS
Release Date: 1999-02-09

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of the best in the series.......2000-05-17

Out of all the discs in the "English Anthem" series I have thus far discovered, this volume is definitely the best. The programme is a beautiful mix of styles and features composers both well-known and relatively obscure. I bought it for track three: "They that go down to the sea in ships" by Herbert Sumsion, which at the time of writing I am preparing to sing with the Choir of Selby Abbey. It is a lovely anthem with some outstanding harmonic language and a remarkably economic use of musical material. Other masterpieces on this disc include William Walton's early work "A Litany" ("Drop, drop slow tears"), Thomas Attwood's simple and beguiling "Turn thy face from my sins," John Rutter's brief but telling setting of "God be in my head" and the extremely demanding "Give me the wings of faith" by Kenneth Leighton. Each demands its own special sound world and approach, but the choir tackles this problem head on and the result is a uniform and accessible quality in each work, regardless of its style. This disc almost cries out to be added to the collection. Well done to Hyperion, the St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, Huw Williams (who provides some marvellous organ accompaniments) and of course to John Scott.
Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The best ever version
  • The Golden Cast of D'Oyly Carte!
  • The Definitive Recording
 Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience
Philip Potter , Kenneth Sandford , Mary Sansom , Jennifer Toye , and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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  1. Overture
  2. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
  3. Act One: Still brooding on their mad infatuation
  4. Act One: I cannot tell what this love may be
  5. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
  6. Act One: The soldiers of our Queen
  7. Act One: If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
  8. Act One: In a doleful train two & two we walk all day
  9. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
  10. Act One: When I first put this uniform on
  11. Act One: Am I alone & unobserved?
  12. Act One: If you're anxious for to shine
  13. Act One: Long years ago-fourteen, maybe
  14. Act One: Prithee, pretty maiden-prithee
  15. Act One: Though to marry you
  16. Act One: Let the merry cymbals sound
  17. Act One: Now tell us, we pray you
  18. Act One: Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
  19. Act One: Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
  20. Act One: Your maidens hearts, ah, do steel

Tracks:

  1. Act One: Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
  2. Act One: We've been thrown over, we're aware
  3. Act One: And are you going a ticket to buy?
  4. Act One: Hold! Stay your hand!
  5. Act One: True love must single-hearted be
  6. Act One: I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
  7. Act One: But who is this, whose god-like grace
  8. Act One: List Reginald, whilst I confess a love
  9. Act Two: On such eyes as maidens cherish
  10. Act Two: Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
  11. Act Two: Silvered is the raven hair
  12. Act Two: Turn, oh turn in this direction
  13. Act Two: A magnet hung in a hardware shop
  14. Act Two: Love is a plaintive song
  15. Act Two: So go to him & say to him
  16. Act Two: It's clear that the mediaeval art
  17. Act Two: If Saphir I choose to marry
  18. Act Two: When I go out of the door
  19. Act Two: I'm a Waterloo House young man
  20. Act Two: After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The best ever version.......2002-06-07

The wonderful cast transports you to the realms of Gilbert and Sullivan, to make you feel that you are experiencing a first night in 1881! John Reed, as Bunthorne, an aesthetic poet is superb, camp, subversive and a complete fraud. If anyone is not aware, the story of the opera is based upon the idiosyncracies of the Aesthetic movement in England of the 1880's and Gilbert used the public parodies of his friend Oscar Wilde as his major source. The rest of the cast, chorus and orchestra , under the long experienced 'Goddie' are superlative and make for one of the finest line-ups in D'Oyly Carte history. Revel and enjoy, for this is quite the best.

5 out of 5 stars The Golden Cast of D'Oyly Carte!.......1999-04-13

My wish had always been to see John Reed and the D'Oyly Carte Company in a performance of Patience. My mother had done so, remarking that, 'You'd need patience to watch it', she was coloured in her opinion, since she wanted to see 'The Mikado', but had gotten the wrong tickets! The recording, made in 1961, is superb in every detail. You are with the cast, on stage, in the auditorium, it is such a 'live' performance. The dialogue is delivered exquisitely, whilst the singing is uniformerly of the highest standard. I recently portrayed 'Bunthorne' and throughout my performances, I felt that I was continuing the legacy of Gilbert and Sullivan. All the past history of performers were there. I feel that Patience is a magical Savoy Opera. Do not miss the opportunity to own such a definitive performance. Maybe the subject of the 'Art Nouveau' periodof Victorian England is dated, but as one critic has already stated, every generation 'throws up' its poseures, to be knocked. 'Ah, me! lack aday!' BUY IT!

4 out of 5 stars The Definitive Recording.......1998-12-09

For those who prefer the traditional Savoyard renderings of the G&S canon, this is far and away the best recording of this parody of the cult of celebrity. John Reed leads the cast as a delightful Bunthorne, and the recording contains all of the opera's dialogue. "HMS Pinafore," "The Mikado," and "The Pirates of Penzance" may be better known, but "Patience" is deserving of a wider audience.
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    		{3 CD Dance Pack / 39 songs} featuring: Inline, Fly Girl, Benny Moore, Mo'reece Marks, Barbara Nelson, Julio Sole, Sonni Bebe, Latin Lou/Mambo All Stars, Dick Martian, Sonni Bebe, On Time, The Party Boys, Mini Trio, Buckwhead, The Black Pack, Brand New Heavies, Robin, Basscut, Aja, Pharcyde, Omar Gosh, Masta Ace, Apocalypse, Fatlip, Nuyorican Soul, Black Magic, Taylor Dayne, Vanessa Daou, Sandy B, Groove Collective, Kenlou III, Fresh Fish, Soul Solution, Joi Cardwell, D'Still'd, Planet Soul, Ace Of Base
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