O Be Joyful In The Lord - Lincoln Cathedral Choir

Berkeley, L: The Lord is my Shepherd, Op. 91 No. 1 Byrd: Sing joyfully Elgar: Psalm 100 Give unto the Lord (Psalm XXIX), Op. 74 Garrett: Psalm 29 Goss, J: Psalm 55 Harvey, J: I love the Lord Lloyd, C H: Psalm 137 Marshall, P: Psalm 23 Palestrina: Super flumina Babylonis Schütz: Psalm 137: An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten SWV 37 Stanford: Jubilate in B flat, Op. 10 Turle: Psalm 81

The psalms, which have been used in worship for at least 2500 years, express a huge spectrum of human emotion and experience, and contain hymns, laments, songs of trust and thanksgiving, pilgrimage and wisdom. The beauty and immediacy of their texts has inspired some of the finest choral music, a vivid selection of which is presented here, on Lincoln Cathedral’s latest choir recording. Psalms sung to Anglican chant, accompanied by Lincoln’s boundlessly-colourful Willis organ, provide a glimpse of the Cathedral’s daily musical offering. The same texts are then presented in settings from across five centuries, from Palestrina to Jonathan Harvey.

Price: $17.98