Take Up The Song

Hymns, songs and psalms from the Church Hymnary 4.

Take Up The Song by Various was published by St Andrew Press in February 2008 and is our 5958th best seller. The ISBN for Take Up The Song is 9780715208656.

This double CD contains forty songs taken from the four main sections of the fourth edition of the Church Hymnary.

Recorded by eight groups of musicians, from Philharmonic singers to junior choirs, the glory and wonder of the hymns shines through.

Disc 1
Praise and thanksgiving 170
Great God of every shining constellation 246
God weeps 168
For the world and all its people 262
Take up the song 171
Kyrie eleison 648, Sanctus and Benedictus 651, Agnus Dei 653
God, who made the earth 228
Love is the touch 115
How shall I sing that majesty 128
Come my way 579
He is exalted 437
Earth, earth awake 420
The tyrant issues his decree 330
Oh, for a closer walk with God 552
So much wrong and so much injustice 572
He came to earth 394
All my days I will sing 467
We turn to God when we are sorely pressed 393
Christ, of God unseen the image 453
Christ triumphant, ever reigning 436

Disc 2
The Lord’s my shepherd 15 (Psalm 23)
Uyai Mose/Come all you people 757 (Psalm 100)
The Lord is my light 23 (Psalm 27)
Lord, you have always been our home 54 (Psalm 90)
O, come, and let us to the Lord 59 (Psalm 95)
Bring to the Lord a glad new song 106 (Psalm 149/150)
Sing a new song to the Lord 62 (Psalm 98)
Not to us be glory given 74 (Psalm 115)
O praise God in his holiness 107 (Psalm 150)
Soon and very soon 749
I have a dream, a man once said 710
Halleluya! We sing of your praises 674
O holy dove of God descending 591
Loving Spirit 597
Jesus put this song into our hearts 692
Take and eat 670
Is it spooky, is it weird 602
When we are living 726
You are called to tell the story 680
May the God of peace go with us 786