Vol. 1-Hymns of Yesterday & Today [CD, Original recording]

Pedro Eustache | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 10, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: CD, Original recording
• Label: CDBY
• Run Time: 42 minutes
• ASIN: B000OU4O1C
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,641 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This Christian Hymns CD Vol.1 --more than 25 years overdue-- reflects my life-long musical "calling". They are instrumental versions of hymns from the evangelical Christian tradition. I go from my roots through my artistic endeavor now, utilizing diff. realms, new digital technologies and musical influences-instruments of the world. The variety in this project illustrates how valid these hymns are today -truth is not time-bound- as well as the universally relevance of their message is. May this Truth bless you the same way He have bless me through all these years...

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5.0 out of 5 stars A musical trip / Un viaje musical, December 12, 2007

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XL (Fort Worth, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vol. 1-Hymns of Yesterday & Today (Audio CD)

There are many instrumental praise and worship CDs. A lot of them are very cold and repetitive. They are, in a many cases, collections of songs that are popular at the time in the churches and are interpreted by someone on a keyboard. The result tends to be barely tolerable in small doses, like what you would get in an elevator going up a couple of floors. Pedro Eustache offers the opposite with his CD. It is not only his selection is different, not just for the mere fact that they are hymns, because there are plenty CDs of instrumental hymns, but because the particular hymns that he chooses. It is evident the intentionality of the artist. It is not a plain collection of "favorites" or "beloved" but it is something that is meaningful for the artist and therefore allows him to transmit something to his audience. The different musical styles allow the listener to travel from European Cathedrals to American mega churches, both traditional and contemporary, and then visit small sanctuaries in South America and maybe a house church in Asia; you could even visit what could be a congregation in Calcutta where Brazilian musicians are playing. It is this mix, this variety that bring the pieces alive, that allow the CD to transmit that something else.

The absence of vocals singing the hymns is not a problem; most of the hymns are well known enough (by those seeking a Hymns CD) that by listening to the melodies the lyrics will flood the mind. Even if this was not the case, this versions offer a tremendous opportunity for our minds and hearts to create their own lyrics and prayers. The execution generates a language maybe like that of Psalm 19, without the sound of voices, no language, no words.


Hay muchos CDs de alabanza y adoración instrumentales. Muchos de ellos son sumamente fríos y repetitivos. Son, en muchos, casos una colección de canciones "de moda" en las iglesias interpretadas por alguien con un teclado y el resultado final es apenas tolerable en pequeñas dosis, como las que uno recibe en un viaje en ascensor un par de pisos. Pedro Eustache nos ofrece con su CD lo opuesto de esto. No solo su selección es diferente, y no por el mero hecho de ser himnos, que bastante CDs de himnos instrumentales hay, sino por los himnos en particular que el escoge. Se hace evidente la intencionalidad del artista. No es una mera colección de los "favoritos" o "mas amados" sino algo que tiene significado para el artista y por lo tanto le permite transmitir algo a su audiencia. Los diferentes estilos musicales le permiten a uno pasar de las catedrales europeas a las megaiglesias norteamericanas, tanto tradicionales como contemporáneas, para luego visitar pequeños templos en Sudamérica y quizás una casa culto en Asia; incluso visitar lo que pudiera ser una congregación en Calcuta donde varios músicos brasileños están tocando. Y es esa mezcla, esa variedad la que le da vida a las piezas, la que le permite al CD transmitir ese algo más.

La ausencia de letras no es un problema; la mayoría de los himnos son suficientemente conocidos (para aquellos que buscan un CD de himnos) para que el escuchar las melodías evoque las letras en nuestras memorias. Y aun si ese no fuese el caso estas versiones ofrecen una tremenda oportunidad para que nuestras mentes y corazones creen sus propias letras y oraciones. La ejecución de las piezas genera un lenguaje quizás como el descrito en el Salmo 19, sin sonidos de voces, ni lenguaje, ni palabras.

5.0 out of 5 stars IT'S A WINNER!!!, August 3, 2007

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Deborah Y. Miller - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vol. 1-Hymns of Yesterday & Today (Audio CD)

In my mind Pedro Eustache is one of the most talented & versetile artists in the world today. Pedro uses his outstanding God given talent to give great musical personality & flexability to all the tracks, while at the same time expressing Gods great love for all mankind through some of the greatest hymns of all time.

God Bless You Pedro,

Eric M. & Deborah (Eric's Mom) In MI

5.0 out of 5 stars Hymns of Yesterday & Today, May 12, 2007

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Margaret A. Granzer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vol. 1-Hymns of Yesterday & Today (Audio CD)

Very fantastic. Pedro has almost outdone himself with this. I can hardly wait for another one.