The Four Hymns are in similar vein to the Five Mystical Songs (1911) although on a smaller and more intimate scale. Together with the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis these form a succession of works displaying a strong mystical, meditative content.The first of the hymns, 'Lord! come away!', employs vigorous Purcellian recitative in a setting of a Palm Sunday text from Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Golden Grove (17th century). 'Who is this fair one?' (Isaac Watts, 1674-1748) is a dialogue for the tenor and viola about divine love. As described by Christopher Palmer, 'Come Love, come Lord' (Richard Crashaw, c1613-49) 'breathes that spirit of mystical remoteness later to inform A Pastoral Symphony?. The final 'Evening Hymn' is a radiant setting of a translation from pre-4th century Greek by Robert Bridges, notable for its contrapuntal expertise over a bell-like basso ostinato.Four Hymns is also available in the version for tenor, viola and piano (979-0-060-02852-6), and the score (978-0-85162-908-7) serves as the vocal score for use with the orchestral version. However, the solo viola part of the orchestral version is incompatible with that for the piano version.Suitable for advanced standard performers. / Partie De Violon Alto Solo

This unique book provides 24 suggested hymns for the Advent/Christmas season and 24 suggested hymns for the Lent/Easter season. For Advent and Christmas, the hymns are organized into six individual services for the first, second, third, and fourth Sundays of Advent, Christmas Eve, and Christmas. For Lent and Easter, the hymns are organized into three suggested Sundays of Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and the Easter service. For each hymn, guitar chords, lyrics, and the melody are provided to enable simple strum-style congregational accompaniments. Intermediate and advanced guitarists can play the full intermediate-level fingerstyle arrangement for each hymn. In addition, MP3 recordings of the hymns are embedded on the included disc, as well as PDF lyric sheets that can be printed and distributed to the congregation. Finally, the TNT 2 software allows you to create custom mixes of the recordings for practice, change the tempo, and even change keys! / Guitare