www.guildmusic.com/catalog/gui7139z.htm SATB/SATB a cappella  Duration: ca 5'00" This work is published by Ricordi [UK] Ltd A performance of this work has been issued by the Schola Cantorum of Oxford under Mark Shepherd on Guild GMCD 7139, This Worldes Joie For contact details please visit the Links page

Reviews

Church Music Quarterly, 2005
O Sing Unto the Lord a New Song, Jesu the Very Thought of Thee, A Meditation

[These] balance homophony and polyphony in a manner reminiscent of the finest sixteenth century anthems but in an entirely contemporary language. The close imitations and springy rhythms of O Sing unto the Lord escape the tyranny of the barline without causing metrical difficulties for the singers. Response to the words is precise to the point of word-painting, as in the solemnity of 'for he is come to judge the earth' and the antiphony describing 'a psalm of thanksgiving'. There is a similar sure touch of harmonic effect at 'and in thy presence rest' in Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee. - A Meditation selects perfectly appropriate words from Thomas Traherne for a service of baptism and sets them with sensitivity but without a trace of sentimentality.