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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.[
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Release Date: 2010
Track Listing:
| http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr1_.mp3 | 1. | O SING UNTO THE LORD |
| 2. | REMEMBER NOT, LORD | |
| http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr3_.mp3 | 3. | JEHOVA, QUAM MULTI SUNT |
| 4. | EVENING HYMN - Eric Brenner, counter-tenor | |
| http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr5_.mp3 | 5. | O GOD, THOU ART MY GOD |
| 6. | MORNING HYMN - Daniel DeVeau, treble | |
| http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr7_.mp3 | 7. | I WAS GLAD |
| 8. | HEAR MY PRAYER, O LORD | |
| http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/files/products/PurcellOSing.Tr9_.mp3 | 9. | VOLUNTARY IN G - John Scott, organ |
| 10. | TE DEUM IN D |
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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