Congregational Song Choral VocalSolos Children ... Video Composer Parker
Text Psalm 30, para. Jaroslav J. Vajda
Voicing SATB
Topics Praise and Adoration
Scripture Psalm 30
Length 1' 55" Price $1.80 (U.S.) Released
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"The prolific and seemingly indefatigable Alice Parker has turned to the music of Heinrich Schütz for a set of three new arrangements based on the Psalms. The Becker Psalter, a compositional project that occupied Schütz at two different stages of his long life, and whose value Parker places on the level of Bach's chorales, was her musical inspiration. Psalm paraphrases by Jaroslav J. Vajda, Jean Wiebe Janzen, and Henry S. Drinker (of Psalms 30, 84, and 117, respectively) proveded the texts. Parker describers her own role as being that of 'compiler and editor.' For me, her textual choices serve the music better in the first and third pieces of this set than in the middle one. Vajda's and Drinker's poems follow the often tight rhyme schemes that inspired Schütz's music, and both text and music profit from the result. . . the Ps. 30 and 117 settings are both quite serviceable." AAM Journal , May/June 2007 Description
First of a series of three anthems entitled "Psalms for Barbara," adapting the music of Heinrich Schütz from his | |
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