Church Music Site

www.hymncds.com has a wide range of accompaniments for hymns and worship songs, plus organ voluntaries. Read more >>

The Sacred Flame - Cambridge Singers

I'll be honest, my mental image of the Cambridge Singers is of rather heavy handed singing, suitable for John Rutter's jolly carols, but not exactly competition for the Sixteen. However in this collection of Renaissance and Baroque they have proved they can do subtlety too. The Monteverdi pieces bounce along with just enough lightness. There's a wonderful range of the best music here. Gesualdo's O vos omnes, for example, is full of 'he can't do that!' moments - it's electrifying. Buxtehude's chunky and jubilant Magnificat adds a little light relief among the exquisite likes of Victoria and Josquin Desprez... and it runs through neatly through Schütz to the (relatively) trendy 'new' music of Mr Bach.

All in all a great collection.

CDs of Hymns

We now have a separate No Organist page on different ways to accompany hymns from CD to electronic hymnal, including our own superb value accompaniment CDs, and our individual tracks section where you can build your own CD from hundreds of hymns and voluntaries, or have tracks emailed direct.

If you want a CD with a popular selection of hymns with singing, particularly for wedding ideas, try these: