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Sing Psalms to the Lord

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  • Let All the World
    Words by George Herbert (1593-1633)
    Music: AUGUSTINE, Erik Routley (1917-1982)

  • Wake Up, My Soul, Wake Up and Sing Psalm 108
    Text adapted by Candace Clayton
    Choral setting by Hal Hopson (b. 1933)

  • May God Be Merciful To Us Psalm 67
    Text from 1979 Book of Common Prayer
    Choral setting by Robert J. Powell (b. 1932)

  • Sicut Cervus Psalm 42
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1524-1594)

  • The Thirsty Deer Psalm 42-43
    Metrical Psalm text by Robert Brennan
    Melody from Catholisches Gesangbuch, 1582, by Fr. Kaspar Ulenberg (1548-1617)
    Stanzas 3 and 5 from a choral setting by Johann Degen (1585-1637)

  • My Shepherd Will Supply My Need Psalm 23
    Metrical Psalm text by Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
    Choir setting by Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)

  • Little David
    Spiritual, arr. by Scott Wilkinson (b. 1973)

  • Psallite Deo Nostro Psalm 47
    Gregorian Chant, Mode III
    Antiphon for the Night Office of Epiphany
    Sung from notation of the 10th century

  • New Songs of Celebration Render Psalm 98
    Metrical Psalm text by Erik Routley (1917-1982)
    Melody, 16th century French Calvinist psalm tune by Louis Bourgeois
    Choral setting by John Ferguson (b. 1941) of Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MN

  • Make A Joyful Noise Unto the Lord Psalm 100
    from the King James Bible
    Choral setting by Kirke L. Mechem (b. 1925)

  • O How Amiable Psalms 84 and 90
    Text by Isaac Watts
    choral setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

  • A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Psalm 46
    Metrical Psalm text and music by Martin Luther (1483-1546)
    1978, Lutheran Book of Worship

  • Solos by selected choristers

  • ...plus...music for Compline, Mass, and the Hymn Festival, including Salve Regina (chant) and Corpus Christi Mass (Richard Proulx).

 

     
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Last updated on 23 January 2008