You Raise Me Up-The Best of Aled Jones
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You Raise Me Up: The Best of Aled Jones is a Greatest Hits
album by Welsh singer Aled Jones
, released on November 27, 2006.
In addition to many of Jones' best-known songs, the album includes a new version of his song "Walking in the Air." Like other Jones recordings "O Holy Night
" and "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
", the new version is a duet between present-day Jones and his younger self.
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
album by Welsh singer Aled Jones
Aled Jones
Aled Jones is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality, broadcaster and television presenter who first came to fame as a treble...
, released on November 27, 2006.
In addition to many of Jones' best-known songs, the album includes a new version of his song "Walking in the Air." Like other Jones recordings "O Holy Night
O Holy Night
"O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
" and "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
"Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" is a hymn with words taken from a longer poem, The Brewing of Soma by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The adaptation was made by Garrett Horder in his 1884 Congregational Hymns....
", the new version is a duet between present-day Jones and his younger self.
Track list
- "You Raise Me UpYou Raise Me Up"You Raise Me Up" was the debut single from Westlife's fifth studio album, Face To Face.This version is considered by many to be the most popular , of all the various versions of the same song. The single peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the band's 13th Number One. It was the first...
" - "I Believe"
- "Panis AngelicusPanis AngelicusPanis angelicus is the penultimate strophe of the hymn Sacris solemniis written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi as part of a complete liturgy of the Feast including prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours....
" - "Walking In The Air"
- "Deep Peace"
- "How Great Thou ArtHow Great Thou Art (hymn)"How Great Thou Art" is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg in Sweden in 1885. The melody is a Swedish folk song. It was translated into English by British missionary Stuart K. Hine, who also added two original verses of his own composition. It was popularized by...
" - "Marble Halls"
- "Silent Night"
- "Vespera"
- "All Through The NightAr Hyd y NosAr Hyd y Nos is a Welsh folksong sung to a tune that was first recorded in Edward Jones' Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards . The Welsh lyrics were written by John Ceiriog Hughes, and has been translated into several languages, including English and Breton.The melody was used by John...
" - "Pie JesuPie JesuPie Jesu is a motet derived from the final couplet of the Dies irae and often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass. The settings of the Requiem Mass by Luigi Cherubini, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins and Fredrik Sixten include a Pie Jesu as an independent...
" - "My Life Flows On"
- "Places (To the Out of Africa theme)"
- "Abide With MeAbide With MeThe hymn tune most often used with this hymn is "Eventide" composed by William Henry Monk in 1861.Alternate tunes include:* "Abide with Me," Henry Lyte, 1847* "Morecambe", Frederick C...
" - "San Damiano"
- "Did You Not Hear My Lady"
- "Suo-Gan"
- "O Holy NightO Holy Night"O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
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