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O God, our help in ages past – St Anne
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O God, our help in ages past
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Isaac Watts, who wrote O God, our help in ages past and over a thousand other hymn texts, was a Nonconformist minister in London and later tutor and chaplain to the Abney family of Cheshunt. The hymn was published in his 1719 collection The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament. The tune is almost certainly by William Croft, chorister and later organist of the Chapel Royal in London, and organist at St. Anne’s Church in Soho (whence the tune takes its name), although no composer is credited in the 1708 collection in which it first appeared. Surprisingly, text and tune do not appear to have been wedded until 1861, in the first edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern.
from notes by Collegium Records © 2000
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ISRC
GB-AKR-00-12601
Duration
4'35
Recording date
11 February 2000
Recording venue
St Alban's Church, Holborn, London, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Geoff Miles
Recording engineer
Geoff Miles & Graham Kennedy
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Sing, ye Heavens - Hymns for all time (COLCD126)
Disc 1 Track 1
Release date: August 2000
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