This is Anglican chant music. It's from the Roman choir tradition but the music changes because the Psalms aren't written in verse and English generally sounds bad sung unless it's in verse; so the music is designed to fit how the words sound when read normally and the words are sung in a way that models how they would be spoken. I'm not musically knowledgable enough to explain more, but it seems to explain the long build up of words being sung in the same note, building tension, and then that tension is released in the next half of the verse where the note changes
There are Catholic churches that have this music. If you are in the United States or Canada, parishes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter often have choirs that sing Anglican chant and other English sacred choral music. I am in the choir of the cathedral of the Ordinariate in Houston, TX. The name of the cathedral is The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham. ordinariate.net/ olwcatholic.org/ (Australia and the UK have their own ordinariates that do this as well - Austrailia has the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, and the UK has the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.)
@@internetenjoyer1044 The tradition of singing Psalms to Anglican chant is entirely an English peculiarity owing almost nothing to Roman tradition or any other. This English translation of the Psalms is by Miles Coverdale and was used in the Church of England’s first Book of Common Prayer in 1549; the quality of the English is sublime, so much so that it remains better known today, even than the later King James Authorised Version of the bible from 1605.
@@DavidYoungDeepInTheCode I imagine that the churches you are talking about were once part of the Anglican communion but have left and joined the Roman Catholics, bringing their earlier forms of worship with them. Am I correct?
@@MrBulky992 Yes! They did not bring all of their former rites, but use a modified version of the Ordinary Form Mass that was called Anglican Use, and is now called Divine Worship: The Missal. It includes several Anglican prayers, KJV-style English and the Coverdale Psalms.
Hear the words of the psalm brother: “If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.”
Ive left the church. Ive struggled with my faith and my doubts won out; my faith has died a death of a thousand cuts But by God, if He really is out there, the pain I feel because of the beauty of things like this is what He'll use to bring me back
I looked for something to bring me back. More liturgy, less liturgy, more this, less that. Anything. Something struck me one day. One thing. One does not need to teach a child to lie. He figures it out on his own. That corruption isn't just "nobody's perfect", it is a heinous crime. Compared to the standard, which is God, one lie is an unforgivable and heinous act. Even if nobody believed the Gospel ever again, if they adopted the idea that any lie, theft, curse, cheating, physical abuse, mental abuse, selfishness or any of the other multitude of things we are constantly tempted to do was a lot worse than they view it now, this would be a better world. That will never happen because people believe "nobody's perfect" and the only one that really has to forgive them is themselves. God has to forgive. That is what drew ME back. I am contributing to the insanity of this world even though it isnt as much as others, it is more than others. I am a sinner and I need God's forgiveness, not my own, not society's. God's. The cringeworthy stuff you look back on and then push it out of your mind? Things you've done and nobody else knows. Things youve done to someone else. That thing you stole. That girl you treated like garbage and destroyed her for a year or more while you didn't care. Whatever it was. Those are the things that cursed us by God. That is why Adam is our representative. That is why original sin exists. We ARE Adam and we would have disobeyed God exactly as Adam and Eve, the first priests of Man before God did. The desire to have God and not anyone else forgive the evil I've done in my life is why I came back and the only reason ANYONE should come back. He proves is separated from God unless he DOES come back.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my being in a choir singing Psalms since a boy chorister. Choral Evensong on the BBC has been heard by me both in the UK , at sea and around the world. Thank you.
I have been looking for this for many years now since I've heard it sung at my Grandmother's funeral in 1990 I too thank you for posting this here. It is exceptionally beautifully sung and the reverence that enhances the performances touches the soul. There is a combination of this psalm with another which is used as the refrain. The refrain uses the words " I place all my trust in you my God, my help is in your saving word". It would sincerely appreciate your directing me to a recording of this. Thank you most sincerely again.
Extraordinary singing and organ accompaniment so subtle. Can you hear that one low bass singer who sings with such sensitivity---put headphones on. Thank you for uploading this. It just takes everything else out of your mind---this is real mindfullness! However, you have used pictures of the choir with Cleobury, whose performance of the same psalm setting is quite different than Ledger.
This is the single loveliest pieces of any kind of chant I've heard in recent years, bar none, Gregorian, Znameni, whatever. Is there ANY way I can get hold of a copy of this chant? Our choir would love to sing something so exquisitely beautiful--it's in an Orthodox cathedral but WE do everything in English and are always on the lookout for anything this exquisite that would meld, as this certainly would, with the Russian musical tradition. Please help! Four of the most beautiful phrases ever for psalmody!
Why think dirty? Why act thirsty? Jesus gave you plenty Are your desires even necessary? Temporary life Eternal after life Fleeting moments Hopeless torments Today I do your will And this daily bread will be my fill
I couldn't find the text for this chant in any Bible translation I checked. Listening as closely as I could, here are the words. Anyone who knows better, please correct them: Out of the deep have I called unto Thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice. O let your ears consider well: the voice of my complaint. If Thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O Lord, who may abide it? For there is mercy with Thee: therefore shalt Thou be feared. I will cry aloud, my soul doth wait for Him: in His word is my trust. My soul fleeth unto the Lord: before the morning watch I say, before the morning watch. O Israel, trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy: and with Him is plenteous redemption. Right He shall redeem Israel: from all his sins.
+Edward Giese This is based on the translation of the Psalms by Myles Coverdale. You can find this text in Psalters of traditional versions of the Book of Common Prayer.
Thank you. As a former Concordia Singer who was taught liturgics, I thank you for sharing these words. What a wonderful way to hold vespers on a Sunday.
If you can get hold of an Episcopal hymnal, it will have the psalms pointed for anglican chanting. It’s not very hard to do. It just takes a little practice and explained within is the pointing system.
Wonderful! Only quibble is that the pictures show Stephen Cleobury and (later) David Willcocks, whereas this recording was actually made under Philip Ledger.
Is this under the direction of Philip Ledger, as stated in the summary, or of David Willcocks, as shown on the album cover, and whose photograph is featured?
+Barry Oakley I have the entire collection of Psalms from St. Paul's. In the recordings I feel they opted for acoustic at the expense of the words. They are not nearly as clear as the King's recordings.
See also the first Priory set (I have not heard their second visitation), albeit from different venues. The Hereford one is super special and some looks to be available on this channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IB0G9ISJdV8.html
We are along a wide pond and deep are these crevasses. Who likes a 1000 'spouse' (formality) trade of signatures instead of marriages to move single household goods?
