Hymns of Yearning: An Album to Sing With

Track Listings

1. Seek the Eternal

2. Soothing

3. Guide and Protect Us

4. Thou art the Refuge

5. Let Us Go Back to Our Own Abode

6. The Mission

7. For Love of God

8. By Your Pure Love

9. We Long for Rest

10. On Thee Do I Wait

11. Set Us Free

12. You Are My All in All

13. You Shall Find Me

14. Chant the Name of the Lord

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Fourteen spiritual songs from different traditions with original melodies, exquisitely arranged for mixed chorus with flute, cello and guitar. Meditative, inspirational. Designed for sing-along, with tunes pitched for average voices.

Hymns of Yearning: An Album to Sing With, Music, John Schlenck, Timothy Mount, Vedantic Arts Ensemble, Darrett Adkins , David Leisner Linda Chesis

Average customer rating:

Sublime music for those with a taste for Classical music and religion

Hymns of Yearning: An Album to Sing With
John Schlenck
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008X1CR
Release Date: 2003-03-07

Tracks:

Seek the Eternal
Soothing
Guide and Protect Us
Thou art the Refuge
Let Us Go Back to Our Own Abode
The Mission
For Love of God
By Your Pure Love
We Long for Rest
On Thee Do I Wait
Set Us Free
You Are My All in All
You Shall Find Me
Chant the Name of the Lord

Album Description

Fourteen spiritual songs from different traditions with original melodies, exquisitely arranged for mixed chorus with flute, cello and guitar. Meditative, inspirational. Designed for sing-along, with tunes pitched for average voices.

Customer Reviews:

Sublime music for those with a taste for Classical music and religion.......2006-04-28

I can't praise this album highly enough. Many of the 14 songs moved me to tears. Schlenck bring all the skills of classical music to bear in producing these songs which are full of the pathos of yearning for God. Although he is a devotee in the Vedantic tradition of Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, and three of the songs are about these towering personalities, most of the songs have a universal appeal. For instance "You are my all and all" speaks to people of all traditions trying to attain one-pointed love for God. The very first song, "Seek the Eternal," is based on a text from Isaiah. It enunciates the spiritual challenge to all of us upon this planet. In the third song, "Guide and Protect Us," God is addressed as Mother. This is strange to us Westerners but does God really have a sex? The second to last song, "You shall find me," comes from the Bhagavad-Gita but its message is utterly universal: "Give me your whole heart, Love and adore me, Worship me always, Bow to me only, And you shall find me." This is repeated over and over with the melody for this transmuted through every possible permutation with stunning effect. In these 14 songs the combination of music and chorus weaving together in intricate harmony is highly inventive and utterly beautiful. Is John Schlenck Johann Sebastian Bach reincarnated?

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1. Seek the Eternal
2. Soothing
3. Guide and Protect Us
4. Thou art the Refuge
5. Let Us Go Back to Our Own Abode
6. The Mission
7. For Love of God
8. By Your Pure Love
9. We Long for Rest
10. On Thee Do I Wait
11. Set Us Free
12. You Are My All in All
13. You Shall Find Me
14. Chant the Name of the Lord