Recordings and Sheet Music
OUR SONGS GIVE PRAISE
1994 Our first recording in cassette format included “Our Song Gives Praise”, along with other music composed from within the parish (MASS SETTINGS: Mass of St Andrew (Lord Have Mercy, Gloria, Holy Holy, Lamb of God) Mass of St Bernard (The Kyrie) Mass of St David (Lord Have Mercy, Holy Holy, Lamb of God); PRAYER SETTINGS: The Our Father, The Hail Mary, The Gloria (a 2nd Setting); HYMNS AND SONGS:Christ's Farewell, Come and Hear, Mary Our Mother, Our Songs Give Praise, Pax Christi. Remember Man, Song of Peace, Remember Man, The Amen.
The cassette is no longer available, although some of its tracks were transferred digitly to the "Our Songs Gave Praise" CD.
MARY OUR MOTHER
1995 "MARY OUR MOTHER - A Walsingham Pilgrimage" was our second cassette recording and the first recorded live in the studio. Towards the end of 1993 our first Marian hymn, “The Pieta”, was completed. The background story so touched and inspired Alison (known as the “other” Alison) that she had gone home and written her own hymn wording, titled “Mary Our Mother”. This was set to music and became the title song and inspiration for our Walsingham cassette recording.
The cassette is no longer available, although some of its tracks were transferred digitly to the "Our Songs Gave Praise" CD.
A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD
1996 At our birth parish of St Theresa’s the children had begun taking a very active role in the liturgy of the mass and a regular monthly celebration know as the “Children’s Mass” was started and by 1983 a thriving children’s music group had begun to provide an accompaniment to the singing. Over the years this grew into a small orchestra, comprising an assortment of instruments, and the Alison and Alison partnership had produced a collection of hymns for children to sing and play. We decided to make a recording of these hymns and songs.
We no longer sell these cassettes (although they are available on request until stocks run out), but some of the tracks were transferred onto the "Our Songs Gave Praise" CD.
VIVAN LOS NINOS
1999 In 1998 at one of the Children’s Mass celebrations that Father Peter Walters of "Let the Children Live" came and told his story and how he had come to help the plight of the unwanted “disposable” children (the gamines) in Colombia, whom he lived and worked with. We had first met him in Walsingham when he took our "Mary Our Mother" cassette to help with fundraising and his visit to us was just one of the many he was to make during this home trip and his sharing of the children’s heartbreaking stories, plus his own inspiring vocational journey, left all who heard him wanting to help - most of all our parish children. Realising that most of the music at the mass he had just celebrated had been composed especially for our children, he asked Alison if she could write him a song for his children. She did and the recording was made to help with the charity's fundraising.
This was our first CD recording although we also still made the recording available as a cassette.