For many years i've worked on setting psalms and hymn texts to new musical settings for congregational worship. All my arrangements have always been completely copyright-free with no recompense required whatsoever - these have been written with the simple hope that Churches today can find musical material that puts its primary emphasis on the richness of Biblical text and great doctrine in a way that everyday folk can approach. I'm not a composer, so i'm highly self-conscious about making any pretenses in trying to be one given my immense respect for those who have dedicated their artistic lives to honing that craft. Nevertheless, it's a thrill to share this rendition of one of my hymn settings by The Kings Chamber Orchestra, directed by cellist extraordinaire Gerard Le Feuvre! This track will be part of a new album by the orchestra to be released in about 2 months' time. For this recording and similar, seek out the Kings Chamber Orchestra at www.kingschamberorchestra.co.uk.The almost-17th century text by Philipp Nicolai is as follows:
How Lovely Shines the Morning Star Text by Philipp Nicolai, 1599 Music by Hugh Sung 1. How love-ly shines the Morn-ing Star! The na-tions see and hail a-far The light in Ju-dah shi-ning Thou, Da-vid's Son of Ja-cob's race, My Bride-groom and my King of Grace, For Thee my heart is pin-ing. Low-ly, Ho-ly, Great and glo-rious, Thou vic-tor-ious Prince of grac-es, Fill-ing all the heav'n-ly plac-es. 2. Now rich-ly to my wait-ing heart, O Thou, my God, deign to im-part The grace of love un-dy-ing. In Thy blest bod-y let me be, E'en as the branch is in the tree, Thy life my life sup-ply-ing. Sigh-ing, cry-ing, For the sav-or Of Thy fav-or; Rest-ing nev-er Till I rest in Thee for-ev-er. 3. Thou, might-y Fa-ther, in Thy Son Didst love me ere Thou hadst be-gun This an-cient world's foun-da-tion. Thy Son hath made a friend of me, And when in spi-rit Him I see, I joy in tri-bu-la-tion. What bliss is this! He that liv-eth To me giv-eth Life for-ev-er; Noth-ing me from Him can sev-er.
If you'd like to have a free copy of the PDF with the piano score and lead sheet, please visit http://ccpc-pca.com/303500.php for a list of all my worship song arrangements. You can also download it directly from this link. For a list of my psalm arrangements, please visit http://ccpc-pca.com/303100.php.
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