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Transfiguration is the sequel to Encounter, which Ros and I
recorded over seven years ago, setting prayers that Robert
had written to spectacularly beautiful music. We have had
such outstanding comeback from this that we have long been
eager to produce a sequel, but were waiting for the right
music to be available.
Several of the
tracks were written by Dave Hart, who has kindly donated us
the use of them, as well as doing a heroic job first
recording the prayers and then producing the disk from our
suggestions.
Shortly before
Fire from the North conference, Francis Cummings spent a
morning recording with a group of friends who are classical
musicians. As they began to improvise together, the Lord
created some exquisitely beautiful music, much of which
blends perfectly with these prayers. Thank you again to
Francis Cummings, Alex Robertson, Linda Jones, Elisabeth
Long, Robin Stevens, Shirley Richards and Philip Wigham who
recorded these pieces: what you did then is proving a great
blessing now.
We are also
grateful to Bill Klein for allowing us to use two pieces of
harp music from his tape Lauda. The glorious music that ends
Transfiguration is taken from ‘Wellspring’s’ dramatic
recording The Return – which was itself an outstanding piece
of improvised musical meditation. The voice you hear at the
end is that of Mike Allen. We are grateful for permission to
reproduce this.
Most of the
prayers are my own, but I have included a short prayer by
George MacDonald, ‘Maker of me, going on making me,’ as well
as Teresa of Avila’s ‘Let nothing disturb you.’ I have also
adapted Charles Whiston’s adaptation of a beautiful ancient
prayer, ‘O Come Holy Spirit come’.
We felt it right
to ask Robert Eggleston to read the ‘narrator’ role – and
what an inspired choice this turned out to be. Little did we
know at the time, but Robert was spectacularly converted by
opening his Bible to the passage that describes how Jesus
was ‘transfigured’ on the mountainside! It has been a
special blessing to involve him in a project so dear to his
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