Sunday Morning Favorites

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
David Leinweber is an Associate Professor of History at Oxford College of Emory University. He is also a long-time musician, playing both piano and guitar. He has served Churches as a staff musician, and also performed at a variety of civic and community functions. Dr. Leinweber has also played guitar, piano, and bass, on numerous recordings over the years.

Album Description
David Leinweber’s new CD Sunday Morning Favorites features some of the great hymns of the faith in a distinctively traditional piano style. Drawing on his own Methodist and Baptist roots, Leinweber’s easy-going, worshipful style of piano is sure to please people who grew up in traditional Christian homes, as well as people who just enjoy relaxed, meditative piano-playing.

Sunday Morning Favorites highlights some of Leinweber’s favorite hymns from his boyhood, including signature offerings like "Near the Cross," "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Be Thou My Vision." It draws on a variety of influences, including the old Victorian "parlour" style of piano, and the traditional "chord-melody" phrasing that often characterized piano music in the old country Churches. In general, Leinweber cites an eclectic mix of musical influences, ranging from classical music, to Floyd Cramer, to Cat Stevens, to classic Southern rock, and gospel.

If you or your family members enjoy classic hymns performed in tasteful, straightforward style, be sure to consider Sunday Morning Favorites by David Leinweber.

Tracks:

The Old Rugged Cross
I love to Tell the Story
Be Thou My Vision
In The Garden
God Will Take Care of you
He Leadeth Me
I Need Thee Every Hour
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Abide with Me
Take Time to be Holy
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Just as I Am
This is My Father's World
Take My Life
There is a Fountain
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Near the Cross

Album Description

David Leinweber's new CD Sunday Morning Favorites features some of the great hymns of the faith in a distinctively traditional piano style. Drawing on his own Methodist and Baptist roots, Leinweber's easy-going, worshipful style of piano is sure to please people who grew up in traditional Christian homes, as well as people who just enjoy relaxed, meditative piano-playing.

Sunday Morning Favorites highlights some of Leinweber's favorite hymns from his boyhood, including signature offerings like "Near the Cross," "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Be Thou My Vision." It draws on a variety of influences, including the old Victorian "parlour" style of piano, and the traditional "chord-melody" phrasing that often characterized piano music in the old country Churches. In general, Leinweber cites an eclectic mix of musical influences, ranging from classical music, to Floyd Cramer, to Cat Stevens, to classic Southern rock, and gospel.

If you or your family members enjoy classic hymns performed in tasteful, straightforward style, be sure to consider Sunday Morning Favorites by David Leinweber.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent performance of some beautiful standards........2004-02-10

This work presents old standards in a beautiful, RESPECTFUL, and straight forward manner. There are no frivilous trills and superficial outcroppings to deter from the spiritual message. Grand standards like, Have Thine Own Way Lord, Blessed Assurance, and quite a few others are presented in a quiet and dignified way. I listen to this CD and feel energized. If you like piano music and specially if you like old Gospel favorites grab this CD. You will not be disappointed.

from Solo Piano Publications.......2003-11-11

"Sunday Morning Favorites" is a collection of traditional hymns played in a straightforward, classic "country church" style by Dr. David Leinweber, an Associate Professor of History at Oxford College of Emory University. Leinweber's playing style is both easy-going and dignified, and the songs are played from the heart without a lot of fanfare or flourishes. The seventeen tracks go back as far as 1772 ("There is a Fountain") up through 1913 ("The Old Rugged Cross" and "In the Garden" - my own "Sunday Morning Favorite"), and include such staples as "I Love to Tell the Story," "Be Thou My Vision," "He Leadeth Me," "Sweet Hour of Prayer," and "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." Dedicated to Leinweber's late grandfather, also a pianist, "Sunday Morning Favorites" was obviously a labor of love and faith, and if you are looking for a really nice collection of solo piano hymns, I recommend this one.

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