One year ago, Regent Records released the St. Peter’s Choir’s most recent recording, “Longing for Home: The American Hymn Tradition.”

Selections from the recording has been nationally broadcast, and it continues to meet with positive reviews. Just last month The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians said “this collection of anthems is both well conceived and well performed.” Read the full review here. 

“Longing for Home” has also been met with critical acclaim from The American Organist magazine, which called it “excellent… richly sung,” and the American Record Guide which called it “American piety at its best—and very appealing music.”

The selections on this disc reflect the American hymn tradition and range from simple hymn arrangements to hymn-anthems. Some of the hymns recorded here are very familiar to the St. Peter's congregation, like “O love of God, how strong and true” to the Calvin Hampton hymn tune de Tar, and “Shall we gather at the river” arranged by John Ferguson. One of the pieces, “God is ascended” by Gerre Hancock, received its recorded premiere on this disc. The Choir is directed by David Sinden and accompanied by Scott Roberts, who was St. Peter’s Assistant Organist at the time of the recording.

Thanks to a generous donor, copies of this CD have been purchased for every St. Peter's member household. We have distributed many copies of the CD in the past year, but if you have yet to claim your copy, now is a great time to do so! Please visit http://specstl.org/longingforhome to claim your copy, or buy additional copies. “Longing for Home” makes a wonderful Christmas gift!

“Longing for Home” is also available to download on iTunes, or stream on Apple Music or Spotify. See https://smarturl.it/GetLFH for download and streaming.