The Gift of This New Day CD
Music for Daily Prayer through the year
The Gift of This New Day CD
Music for Daily Prayer through the year
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Publisher: Church House Publishing
ISBN: 6152006568504
Published: 20/05/2025
The Church of England's Daily Prayer audio service has comforted and inspired millions worldwide since its launch in 2021. Featuring choral music performed by St Martin's Voices, it has included everything from traditional chant to contemporary styles inspired by Taizé and Iona.
The Gift of This New Day CD features all-new recordings of the most-requested pieces featured at Morning Prayer across the different seasons of the church year. These include pieces based on well-known sacred music in the public domain – from Hildegard of Bingen to Rachmaninoff – alongside original compositions.
There are also five new works commissioned for this album, composed by Cecilia McDowall, Nils Greenhow, Sarah MacDonald, Owain Park, and Lucy Walker. Each aims to create a space for spiritual reflection, inviting listeners to encounter God beyond words.
The Gift of This New Day will continue and extend the ‘breath-taking and healing work’ of the Daily Prayer app and podcast, enabling individuals and congregations to incorporate more simple, beautiful music into their own rhythms of daily prayer.
A book to accompany the CD is also available.
Buy the Gift of This New Day book and CD together for just £20 at Church House Bookshop
1 Benedictus – The Song of Zechariah - John Harper 2 Opening Responses and Thanksgiving Prayer - Dan Soper 3 Benedicite – A Song of Creation - John Harper 4 Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead- based on traditional chant 5 A Song of God’s Compassion - H. Walford Davies 6 A Song of Peace - Sarah MacDonald 7 Open my eyes, O Lord - Thomas Allain-Chapman 8 A Song of God’s Glorious Name - Joseph Barnby 9 Lord, you will guide me with your counsel - based on traditional chant 10 A Song of God’s Blessing - James Nares 11 Fear not, for I have redeemed you 12 Venite – A Song of Triumph 13 Forsake me not, O Lord - Thomas Allain-Chapman 14 A Song of God’s Praise - Owain Park 15 A Song of the King’s Glory - Joseph Barnby 16 Now it is time to awake out of sleep - Cecilia McDowall 17 To us is born a Saviour - Polish traditional 18 The Word of life which was from the beginning - based on traditional chant 19 Jubilate – A Song of Joy 20 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness - Thomas Allain-Chapman 21 A Song of Penitence - Peter Moger 22 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul - after Rachmaninoff 23 Te Deum Laudamus – A Song of the Church - Norman Warren 24 A Song of Lamentation - Thomas Allain-Chapman 25 The Easter Anthems - John Harper 26 Death is swallowed up in victory - Thomas Allain-Chapman 27 A Song of Ezekiel - Nils Greenhow 28 Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your people - based on traditional chant 29 A Song of Judith - Lucy Walker 30 A Song of Trust in God - Thomas Allain-Chapman 31 A Song of the Bride - after Hildegard of Bingen
Offer ends: 30/06/2025
