Lutheran Record Club

Comment by Rev. David R. Emmons on May 2, 2008 at 1:51pm

One thing I find that I would like to see is more Lutheran music--and avaiable to listen to in the car, etc. We get tons of samples--and my wife's pet peeve is that you get a favorite hymn, but only one verse of it.

To help teach and be of value to our congregations, we need full length CD's of hymn music. Our people have lost the ability and the memory of a lot of what we are rich in. Partially, it is the fault of the difficulty of LW. It ruined a many simple church people. Sure choirs could do it, but then how could plain folk compete? So they stopped singing.

We need a hymnal project where a good musical congregation and organist that does not overpower to record the whole hymnal.

Lets get our people singing again.

Comment by Mark Eischer on May 6, 2008 at 6:42am

David, thanks for your comments. For more on this topic, see my review of "Singing the Faith: Living the Lutheran Musical Heritage."

Comment by Craig Johansen on June 21, 2008 at 5:06am

CPH has some great recordings from the hymnal.

http://www.cph.org/cphstore/Category.asp?find%5Fcategory=80199&find%5Fdescription=Recordings&find%5Fpart%5Fdesc=

http://www.cph.org/cphstore/Category.asp?find%5Fcategory=97252&find%5Fdescription=Concordia+Publishing+House+Recordings&find%5Fpart%5Fdesc=&AI=&list%5FPagingMove=2&txtSort=name%7CA&ViewAll=

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