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About Our CDs

1. Stocks

2. Overton

3. Sunderland

4. Hornby

5. Abbeystead

6. Funeral Tune

7. Brisk Anthem

8. Easter Hymn

9. Apleton

10. Cow’s Tune

We have recorded two CDs. You can buy them at our concerts or by sending a cheque for £11 for one CD or £21 for two (both prices include P&P to addresses in the UK), payable to ‘The Gladly Solemn Sound’, to:

The Gladly Solemn Sound,

c/o Paul Guppy, F23,

St. Leonard’s House,

St Leonard’s Gate,

Lancaster, LA1 1NN,

Half of the profits from sales of the CDs go to Double Joy Children’s Farm - a home and school for children orphaned by Aids in Kenya. Find out about Double Joy and the work they do at www.double-joy.org.uk

If you need any more information, contact us.

Repeat Their Sounding Joy - 1999

11. Wiltshire

12. Carlisle

13. Psalm 23

14. Lonsdale

15. Christmas Hymn

16. Christmas Hymn

17. Joy to the World

18. Smith’s 117th

19. Ipplepen

‘Repeat Their Sounding Joy - Music from a Wyresdale West Gallery’ was recorded in The Shepherd’s Church, Over Wyresdale in 1998-1999. The CD features sacred music from the Winder manuscripts and John Rhodes’ manuscript book, all of which were used in Wyresdale in the first half of the nineteenth century and which remain there to this day, and Robert Bradley’s Psalm Chant book which is in Lancaster Library.

Listen to track 2 ‘Overton’ on our MP3 downloads page here

1. Awake Ye Mortals All

2. South Petherton

3a. Trettondags Marsch

3b. Glad Tidings

4. The Oxen

5. While Shepherds

6. Hark, The Herald Angels

7. The Darkling Thrush

8. The Counsels of Grace

9. Arise & Hail the Glorious Star

10a. Pastorale

10b. Messiah

11.Sons of Mirth
12.We Happy Herdsmen
13.The Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes

14. As Harmless Shepherds

15. The Fieldmice’s Carol

16. Hark, What Celestial Sounds

17. Great Was the Joy

18. Behold I Bring you Glad Tidings

19. Roby Mill New Year Carol

Awake Ye Mortals All - 2005

‘Awake Ye Mortals All’ was also recorded in The Shepherd’s Church, Over Wyresdale in 2005. A collection entirely of Christmas music (with one New Year Carol), this time the music comes from a variety of sources from the United Kingdom and abroad, all in the best West Gallery Tradition.

Listen to track 17 ‘ Great Was the Joy’ on our MP3 downloads page here