Song List: Let Our Gladness Know No End Oh! Infant Jesus When Christ Was Born Of Mary Free O Come, All Ye Faithful Angels, From The Realms Of Glory Angels We Have Heard On High As Each Happy Christmas I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day As Joseph Was a-Walking As with Gladness Men of Old Away In A Manger Hey, Hey, Ho A Babe Is Born in Bethlehem In a Manger He Is Lying The Babe Of Bethlehem Jingle Bells Beautiful Savior Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella Cantique de Noel The Cherry Tree Carol Child Jesus Came To Earth This Day Come, All Ye Children Everywhere, Everywhere, Christmas Tonight The First Noel From Every Spire On Christmas Eve From Heaven Above Gather Around the Christmas Tree Glad Christmas Bells The Golden Carol Good Christian Men, Rejoice Infant So Gentle Hark! The Herald Angels Sing O Little Town of Bethlehem O Come, Little Children Lullay, Though Little Tiny Child Silent Night Oh, How Joyfully O Christmas Tree Joy To The World Lo, How a Rose Little Children, Can You Tell? Hark the Glad Sound I Saw Three Ships It Came Upon the Midnight Clear We Wish You a Merry Christmas From Earthly Tasks Lift Up Thine Eyes As Lately We Watched God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen The Other Night A Child This Day Is born Sleep, Holy Babe Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Companions, All Sing Loudly The Seven Joys of Mary Deck the Hall Come, All Ye Shepherds In Bethlehem, The Lowly Immortal Babe Wassail, Wassail Jolly Old Saint Nicholas The Happy Christmas Comes Once More Oh! Night Among The Thousands While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks To Us Is Born A Little Child Hark Ye Shepherds Hark, from the Midnight Hills Around We Three Kindgs of Orient Are Good King Wenceslas Shepherds, Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep Noel, Noel Here We Come A-Caroling Whence Comes This Rush of Wings? The Holly and the Ivy Oh! Dear Jesus How Brightly Beams The Morning Star What Child Is This? March Of The Three Kings On Christmas Night Joseph, O Dear Joseph Mine There Comes a Vessel Laden Mary, Dear Mother Of Jesus How Vain the Cruel Herod's Fear Rise Up, Shepherds, an' Foller Go, Tell It on the Mountains O Come, O Come Emmanuel Ring, Christmas Bells The Sleep of the Child Jesus My Sheep Were Grazing A Joyful Christmas Song O Holy Night We Do Worship Thee

Song List: A Child Of The King A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Abide with Me Amazing Grace At Calvary At the Cross Be Still, My Soul Beneath The Cross Of Jesus Beyond The Sunset Blessed Assurance Blest Be The Tie That Binds Break Thou The Bread Of Life Bringing In The Sheaves Christ Arose! Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today Come, Thou Almighty King Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing Come, We That Love The Lord Come, Ye Thankful People, Come Count Your Blessings Crown Him with Many Crowns Day Is Dying In The West Face to Face with Christ My Savior Fairest Lord Jesus Faith of Our Fathers For The Beauty Of The Earth God Be With You God Of Our Fathers God Will Take Care of You Great Is Thy Faithfulness Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah Have Thine Own Way, Lord! He Leadeth Me He Lives He's Got The Whole World In His Hands Heavenly Sunlight Hiding In Thee His Eye Is On The Sparrow His Name Is Wonderful Holy, Holy, Holy How Firm A Foundation How Great Thou Art I Am His And He Is Mine I Am Thine, O Lord I Have Decided to Follow Jesus I Know Whom I Have Believed I Love To Tell The Story i need Thee Every hour In Christ There Is No East Or West In the Cross of Christ In the Garden It Came Upon the Midnight Clear It Is Well With My Soul Ivory Palaces Jesus Calls Us Jesus Is All The World To Me Jesus Loves Me! Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee Joy To The World Just A Closer Walk With Thee Just As I Am, Without One Plea Lead Me To Calvary Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Let The Lower Lights Be Burning Love Divine, All Loves Excelling More About Jesus Would I Know More Love To Thee My Faith Looks Up To Thee My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less My Jesus, I Love Thee Near The Cross Near to the Heart of God Nearer, My God, to Thee No, Not One! Now Thank We All Our God O Come, All Ye Faithful O For A Heart To Praise My God O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing O God, Our Help In Ages Past O Happy Day Oh, How He Loves You and Me! Oh, How I Love Jesus O Little Town of Bethlehem O Love That Will Not Let Me Go O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee O Worship the King Only Trust Him Onward, Christian Soldiers Open My Eyes, That I May See Pass Me Not Rescue the Perishing Revive Us Again Rock Of Ages Safe In The Arms Of Jesus Saved By Grace Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us Shall We Gather at the River? Showers Of Blessing Silent Night! Holy Night! Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus Standing On The Promises Sweet By And By Sweet Hour of Prayer Take My Life and Let It Be Take The Name Of Jesus With You Take Time To Be Holy Tell Me The Old, Old Story The Bond Of Love The Church In The Wildwood The Church's One Foundation The Light Of The World Is Jesus The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want The Old Rugged Cross This Is My Father's World 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus Trust and Obey Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus Were You There? What a Friends We Have in Jesus When I Survey the Wondrous Cross When Morning Gilds the Skies When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder Wonderful Words Of Life

Song List:

Azmon

Cwm Rhondda

Down Ampney

Ellers

Engelberg

Forest Green

Foundation

Grosser Gott

Hanover

Hyfrydol

Hymn To Joy (Ode To Joy)

In Dir Ist Freude

Kirken den er et gammelt hus

Laudate Dominum

Marion

Nettleton

Nun danket alle Gott

Salve festa dies

Slane

St. George's Windsor

Tallis' Canon (The Eighth Tune)

Terra Beata (Terra Patris)

The Ash Grove

Westminster Abbey

Sounds like: Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, Liz Story's "The Gift", George Winston's "December", early Windham Hill solo piano artists, and "A Winter's Solstice" compilations.


Transcribed by: David Shenton ( https://www.shentonmusic.com/ ) verbatim to the sound recording

Contents:
1. Bring A Torch (Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella)
2. Children Go Where I Send Thee / The Holly & The Ivy
3. Star Of Wonder (We Three Kings of Orient Are)
4. Silent (Silent Night, Holy Night)
5. Midnight (It Came Upon the Midnight Clear)
6. What Child Is This?
7. Greensleeves (homage to Liz Story)
8. Three Ships (I Saw Three Ships, Come Sailing In)
9. The Coventry Carol (Lully, Lulla, Lullay)
10. Sing We Now Of Christmas (No�l Nouvelet)
11. Carol Of The Bells

Album & Songbook review by: Kathy Parsons (MainlyPiano.com):

I have discovered a real wealth of great solo piano Christmas CDs this year! Isadar?s In Search For the Meaning of Christmas definitely falls into this category! Thoughtful, introspective, and a bit moody, Isadar?s arrangements are true to the carols (with some small melody changes in ?Bring a Torch? and ?Carol of the Bells? that bother me just a little) and still seem very personal. ?Bring a Torch?, ?The Holly and the Ivy?, and ?I Saw Three Ships? are given a lighthearted, joyful treatment. ?Star of Wonder (We Three Kings)?, ?What Child Is This??, ?The Coventry Carol?, and ?Sing We Now of Christmas? are all minor, somber, reverent pieces, and all four are given loving arrangements that keep the dark, mysterious nature of the songs and reflect Isadar?s own sensibilities. ?Carol of the Bells? and Isadar's take on Liz Story?s arrangement of ?Greensleeves? are energetic without losing all abandon. ?Silent Night? and ?It Came Upon a Midnight Clear? present us with a very cold, deep solitude - both feel like late night with moonlight reflecting off the snow. Both are moody, but very beautifully so. George Winston?s ?December? is one of my all-time favorite holiday albums, and I feel In Search For the Meaning of Christmas holds up exceptionally well next to it. This is an excellent collection of Christmas music, and I highly recommend it!

In Search For the Meaning of Christmas is the companion songbook to Isadar?s 1999 solo piano release by the same name. Meticulously transcribed note-for-note by David Shenton of New York Music Publishing, the music is faithful to the recording in every way (except for the pianist - YOU!). The scores are clear, concise, and easy to read, and also include chord indications for improvisation or the use of instruments other than or in addition to the piano. Isadar?s arrangements cover a whole range of emotions, from very dark and somber to joyful and buoyant. All of the pieces from the CD are here, including Isadar?s homage to Liz Story and her beautiful version of ?Greensleeves.? My personal favorites of the eleven songs in this book are the bright and cheerful ?Bring A Torch,? ?What Child Is This??, ?Greensleeves,? the darkly gorgeous ?The Coventry Carol,? and ?Sing We Now of Christmas.? Other titles that I really like are ?Children Go Where I Send Thee/The Holly and the Ivy,? ?Star of Wonder (We Three Kings)," ?Carol of the Bells,? and the effervescent ?Three Ships.? ?Silent? (Silent Night) and ?Midnight? (It Came Upon a Midnight Clear) are a bit too dark for my own holiday tastes, but are interesting and very personal arrangements. This book will make a great addition to your holiday sheet music collection and is available from isadar.com and amazon.com.

Isadar is an artist on both Enlightened Piano Radio & Whisperings Solo Piano Radio, the latter featuring some of today's biggest names in solo piano music, including Ludovico Einaudi, David Nevue, Brian Crain, Kevin Kern, Robin Spielberg, Michele McLaughlin, Philip Wesley and over 300 more...

Also available as sheet music in physical songbooks, digital downloads, as well as software for Yamaha Disklavier player-pianos.

For more information, visit his website at: http://www.isadar.com

Song List: Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus Glory Hallelujah Holy Night How Great Our Joy! Joy Comes In The Morning Sing Gloria! Song of Mary Song of Simeon To Touch His Tiny Hand

This collection of ?Easy String Duets? contains 10 hymns arranged for 2 VIOLINS. These fun-to-learn arrangements are a welcome addition to the repertoire for beginning string students and suitable for recitals and worship services. The theme of each hymn in this collection centers around giving thanks and are equally suited for the Thanksgiving season as well as any time of year to give praise to God and encourage a spirit of gratitude.

All notes for both VIOLIN parts are playable in the first position making these arrangements an excellent choice for early-intermediate string players. For each song, there is a combined score (grand staff) with both VIOLIN 1 and VIOLIN 2 on each page plus separate 1-staff scores for each VIOLIN.

Each song is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples.

Song titles included in this collection:
All Creatures of Our God and King
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Count Your Blessings
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Ode to Joy)
Now Thank We All Our God
Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology)
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Rejoice, the Lord Is King
We Gather Together

This collection of ?Easy String Trios? contains 10 hymns arranged for VIOLIN, VIOLA, and CELLO. These fun-to-learn arrangements are a welcome addition to the repertoire for beginning string students and suitable for recitals and worship services. The theme of each hymn centers around giving thanks and is equally suited for the Thanksgiving season as well as other times of year to encourage a spirit of gratitude.

All notes for each instrument are playable in the first position making these arrangements an excellent choice for early-intermediate string players. For each song, there is a combined score (grand staff) with all three parts on each page plus separate 1-staff scores for the VIOLIN, VIOLA, and CELLO.

Each song is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples.

Song titles included in this collection:
All Creatures of Our God and King
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Count Your Blessings
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Ode to Joy)
Now Thank We All Our God
Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology)
Praise to the Lord
Rejoice, the Lord Is King
We Gather together

The Best Hymns of All Time
Arranged for Strings by Colin Kirkpatrick

Book 3

We?re really excited to present the third and last book of our collection of sixty of the best-loved hymns ever composed. The hymns are scored in four parts and could be used with virtually any combination of stringed instruments: string quartet or quintet or any size string ensemble. They are presented in a set of three books and include full four-part instrumental scores plus four separate parts for 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola and cello (and double bass). The bass part is also optional because it doubles the cello part an octave lower. There?s also an optional but useful simplified keyboard part intended for less experienced keyboard players. The left hand plays only the bass part most of the time, with the right hand part kept as simple as possible. The piano part too means that you can use the arrangements as solos, duets or trios. To make the music accessible to less experienced players, the range of the notes has been kept fairly low so that many of the arrangements can be played in first position. However, to produce a brighter and richer sound, a few of the more experienced violinists could play an octave higher. You can hear this effect in the audio samples.

These arrangements are intended either as stand-alone pieces that could be used as interludes in a service, or they could be used to accompany solo, choral or congregational singing. This is essential music for schools and many churches and contains probably all the hymns you?ll ever need. The scores and all the parts of Book 2 are contained in a single 65-page PDF file.

Book 3 contains the following twenty popular hymns: All Hail the Power of Jesus? Name (Miles Lane); All things Bright and Beautiful (Bright and Beautiful); Alleluia, Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol); Blessed Assurance (Assurance); Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (St George?s Windsor); Father, Hear the Prayer we Offer (Sussex & Gott Will's Machen); For the Beauty of the Earth (Dix); Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken (Austrian hymn); How Firm a Foundation (Foundation); Jesu, Lover of my Soul (Hollingside); Jesus Loves Me, This I Know (Jesus Loves Me); Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Hymn to Joy); Kum Ba Yah (Afro-American folksong); Mine Eyes have Seen the Glory (Battle Hymn of the Republic); O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St. Anne); Morning has Broken (Bunessan); Praise to the Lord the Almighty (Lob den Herren); Shall We Gather at the River? (Hanson Place); The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni); When Peace Like a River (Ville du Havre).

The audio samples include (1) All things Bright and Beautiful, (2) How Firm a Foundation, (3) Kum Ba Yah and (4) Morning has Broken. The music has been set in string-friendly keys so they are not compatible with the brass collection of the same name.