In Liturgy & Song CD

The music on this double CD was performed at the National Conference on Worship, Music and the Arts, held on July 18-21, 2005. This conference was the fourth national event sponsored by the Commission on Worship of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The conference was held on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter Minnesota. Most of the selections were recorded in the splendid acoustics of Christ Chapel, but area churches were used as well. Included on the conference schedule were six services, three concerts, and four recitals. Worship at the conference focused on festivals before and after the Festival of Pentecost. An Evening Prayer service marked the commemoration of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession. 2005 was the 475th anniversary of this notable day in the history of Lutheranism. A 120-voice choir and a 42-piece orchestra presented the opening Festival Concert. A large adult choir along with 77 high school students, selected from around the nation as a conference Honor Choir, presented the closing concert which was attended by over 1000 people. A special emphasis of the conference was the Christian liturgy, the order of service used by the great majority of Christians in the world. Three full liturgical services (with Holy Communion) demonstrated how congregations can refresh and revitalize the liturgy in their own parishes. The three services encouraged both liturgical excellence and liturgical variety and thereby offered a middle road between lackluster liturgical worship and worship that abandons the tried, tested and gospel-filled rites of confessional Lutheranism. Titles include:

CD 1:
All Hail the Power
Kyrie
A Hymn to God the Father
Credo III
Keep Your Lamps
Sonata for Oboe and Piano
Prelude #1 in C Major
Prelude #2 in A Minor
Meditation: Euphonium and Organ
Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord
Lord, Keep Us Steadfast/Grant Peace
Isaiah, Mighty Seer
Diversion II
Exit
Plenary Address Excerpt 1
Postlude pour l'Office de Complies
Allegro (Organ Concerto I in C)
Plenary Address Excerpt 2
Plenary Address Excerpt 3
1st Arabesque
Fantasy on Ein feste Burg

CD 2:
Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor
Sermon Excerpt
Worthy Is Christ
Plenary Address Excerpt 4
Grand Chœur
Prelude #13 in Gb Major
Prelude #14 in Eb Minor
Holy, Holy, Holy
Sermon Excerpt
Prayer of the Church
O Jesus, Blessed Lord
Draw Near
Invention #5, Eb Major
Invention #15, B Minor
This Is My Word
Lord, Keep Us Steadfast
Komm heliger Geist
Sing with All the Saints
Afro-Cuban Prelude on In dir ist Freude
All People That on Earth Do Dwell
Arise, Your Light Has Come
Ein feste Burg