Brooklyn Tabernacle Gospel Choir
Choir director Carol Cymbala, along with her husband, pastor Jim Cymbala, helped
jumpstart the withering congregation of the now-famous Brooklyn Tabernacle. She began
with a tiny choir that over the past 2 decades has become the 240-plus-voice Grammy-
and Dove Award-winning group. Here are their essential recordings.
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Favorite Song Of All
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by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Wea/Warner Brothers
Audio CD
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Culled from three live Sunday services at the famous Brooklyn Tabernacle, the Grammy-nominated
Favorite Song of All features some of the choir's most cherished and oft-sung hymns.
As with others in their series of live recordings, Favorite Song includes applause,
individual testimony, and rousing congregational participation, as in "God Is Moving by His
Spirit." Buoyed by remarkably strong and regularly featured soloists (Robin Giles, Charles
Allen, Cynthia Greene), the choir marries elements of...
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Songs From The Altar
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by Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers
Wea/Warner Brothers
Audio CD
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The most consistently solid of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir recordings, Songs from the Altar is a highly polished collection built on simple praise and worship refrains. From the pen of Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir director Carol Cymbala, the singers (a select ensemble of choir members) offer "We've come to bless your name, oh Lord." Contemporary Christian music superstar Carman contributes the lyric "I feel Jesus in this place / And my soul does burn within me," and the traditional African...
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Praise Him...Live!
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by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Wea/Warner Brothers
Audio CD
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While perhaps not as evenly keeled as others in their live series, Praise Him... Live!, winner of the 1996 Dove Award for the best choral collection, is arguably the strongest representation of the power with which the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir makes itself fully present for worship. Clearly, the choir take to heart Christ's message of being a living manifestation of the Gospel. Typical of their material, the choir eschews numbers that talk down, condemn, or glorify hair-shirt Christianity,...
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The Best of the Rest...
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Live...We Come Rejoicing
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by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Wea/Warner Brothers
Audio CD
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This Grammy Award-winning disc showcases the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir ministering to their congregation and celebrating their salvation with such gems as the R&B gospel of "Only a Look" and the hopped-up new traditional "Rain on Us." Both feature favored soloist Calvin Hunt, who also offers moving testimony of having been lost to drug addiction and chaos and found by the grace of God. The public-domain hymn "Holy Is the Lord" stretches into a nearly-nine-minute praise when married with the...
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Christmas At The Brooklyn Tabernacle
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by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Wea/Warner Brothers
Audio CD
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A fine selection of traditional carols mixed with contemporary takes on the birth of the Christ child, Christmas at the Brooklyn Tabernacle is a festive and joyful celebration of the season. True to their roots, the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir pays homage to their ethnic diversity by including a variety of styles: the funky Caribbean influenced "First Day of the Son," the soulful R&B groove of "They Followed His Star," and the exquisitely executed classicism of "Carol of the Bells." Also included...
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High & Lifted Up
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by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Wea/Atlantic
Audio CD
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Drawn from favorite selections previously performed at Sunday morning worship service, High and Lifted Up is the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir's first studio album in more than a decade. Akin to the Brooklyn Tabernacle singers' Songs from the Altar, this is an elegantly scored collection that remains firmly focused on the choir's trademark praise and worship bent. However, while it begins with the relatively uncomplicated "Total Praise," High and Lifted Up, unlike Songs, is lyrically complex,...
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