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O Sing Unto the Lord

The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys
John Scott, conductor
Frederick Teardo, organ
with Concert Royal
James Richman, artistic director

Running through this disc of some of Purcell’s best-known sacred music is a sense of majesty: the greatness of God as the ultimate reflection of the power and grandeur of monarchy, along with its reverse image: the unworthiness of the servant to his master. The latter them appears in many psalm texts, with perhaps no better example than Psalm 96, [1] O SING UNTO THE LORD, possibly composed in 1688. With the King’s string band displayed prominently in an opening overture, the musical textures alternate continually from a full choral tutti to a quartet in the central section, surrounded by brief instrumental refrains and topped and tailed with Alleluias. They each depict the glory of God beside the insignificance of man-made gods.[ Read more by accessing the complete text of the CD booklet.]

Choral Music, Organ Music

Release Date: 2010

Track Listing:

www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr1_.mp3	1.	O SING UNTO THE LORD
	2.	REMEMBER NOT, LORD
www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr3_.mp3	3.	JEHOVA, QUAM MULTI SUNT
	4.	EVENING HYMN - Eric Brenner, counter-tenor
www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr5_.mp3	5.	O GOD, THOU ART MY GOD
	6.	MORNING HYMN - Daniel DeVeau, treble
www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr7_.mp3	7.	I WAS GLAD
	8.	HEAR MY PRAYER, O LORD
www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr9_.mp3	9.	VOLUNTARY IN G - John Scott, organ
	10.	TE DEUM IN D

View CD Booklet

Review: Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, March 2011

Review: Organists' Review, May 2011

Review: Choir & Organ, May/June 2011

Review: Early Music America, Fall 2011

Review: Church Music Quarterly, Fall 2011

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