Join us as we survey a range of Psalm settings across the centuries, culminating in Leonard Bernstein’s festive and poignant Chichester Psalms.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47)
Dimitri Bortniansky: Choral Concerto No. 31 (Psalm 47)
Alan Hovhaness: Save Me, O God, Op. 105, No. 2 (Psalm 54)
William Byrd: Miserere Mei, Deus (Psalm 51)
Hovhaness: Make His Praise Glorious, Op. 105, No. 4
Giovanni Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo à 8 (Psalm 100)
Salamone Rossi: Mizmor Shir L’yom Hashabbat (Psalm 92)
Heinrich Schütz: Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied (Psalm 98)
Felix Mendelssohn: Richte Mich, Gott (Psalm 43)
Caroline Shaw: And the Swallow (after Psalm 84)
Tzvi Avni: A Song of Degrees (Psalm 120)
Jake Runestad: I Will Lift Mine Eyes (Psalm 121)
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms (texts from Psalms 108, 100, 23, 2, and 131)
Concert length: c. 75 minutes (no intermission)
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