Praise Gathering - Faithful Through The Ages

Tuesday 1st June 1999
Praise Gathering - Faithful Through The Ages
Praise Gathering - Faithful Through The Ages

STYLE: MOR / Soft Pop
RATING 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 235-81
LABEL: Kingsway KMCD2080
FORMAT: CD Album
ITEMS: 1
RELEASE DATE: 1999-02-19
RRP: £2.94

Reviewed by Jennifer Brooker

Worship albums can be very samey. When this one plopped through the letterbox on Maundy Thursday I did not expect to be using it in a home group that evening. Surprise: a live recording, without any of the drawbacks which sometimes seem to come with the rations with recording on location. 300+ seriously good, committed performers (maybe not quite Scotland's answer to the BTC); quality recorded sound; none of those tiresome voice-overs which drive listeners mad after playing the disc more than twice; and plenty of variety to keep a worshipping soul on track. What more could one want? Well the blurb promises perhaps a little more than we get: "new songs and classics with exciting new arrangements," says the inset card. The songs are good and the choral arrangements (most by music director and producer Ian Watson) more than competent, but cutting edge sound they ain't. The newest is from 1996, from the pen of Graham Kendrick; the classics are represented by Chris Bowater's setting of John Newton's hymn "How Sweet The Name" and a rather lovely bassoon solo based on the big tune from Jean Sibelius' 'Finlandia'. Still a good album, though.

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Reader Comments

Posted by Bob and Joy Barber in barber39@tiscali.co.uk @ 20:51 on Aug 2 2020

we would like a copy of the CD 'Faithful through the ages' by Praise Gathering. Do you have this CD for sale please?



Posted by sheila j smith in PARBOLD @ 01:37 on Dec 21 2011

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS ALBUSM WAS MY FIRST OF PRAISE GATHERING REMINDS ME OF MY YOUTH I N SCOTLAND SINGING IN CHOIRS FOR COME TOGETHER IF MY PEOPLE , COME TOGETHER BAND THE SONGS JUST MINISTER TO ME SO DEEPLY ... .......



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