Reviewed by Lins Honeyman

This box set comprises of three albums from the instrumental 'Praise Him On The' series originally released individually in 1992. Here we have the cello, panpipes and violin versions by Robin Thompson-Clarke, Simon Bernard-Smith and Peter Shurley respectively. All the recent choruses and sacred hymns you would expect are here - "When I Survey" (twice), "All Heaven Declares" (twice), "Be Still", "Amazing Grace", "I Give You All The Honour" to name but a few - but no justice is done to these great songs due to poor and lifeless production and some atrociously cheap keyboard accompaniment. I make no judgment on the skills of each of the soloists but this is a monotonous and needless reissue of material that should perhaps have been left in the archives. Aside from the musical content, the packaging itself includes spelling and track numbering errors and therefore gives the impression of a rush job. Christian lift music at its worst.

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