Hear My Prayer O Lord

In Prayer Of The Heart the text of the Eastern Orthodox monastic prayer -- Lord Jesus Christ Son of God Have mercy upon me is sung in a mantra-like way in English Greek and Coptic while a slow recording of a human heartbeatplays. The singer is instructed to ?sit on a low stool bowing towards the heart? and may play the bell and bowl. The piece slowly explores the entire circle of fifths beginning in the key of C and playing each related minorand moving to the related dominant key then repeating until the return to C. It is a profoundly meditative work.The work was originally composed for Icelandic singer Björk and the Brodsky Quartet to benefit the charity TheChain of Hope. It was recorded by the original performers.John Tavener was that rare creature a composer of serious music and serious religious music who had also achieved commercial success. He burst into the popularconsciousness with the performance of his Song for Athene at the funeral of Princess Diana but had been a highly respected and frequently-performed composer since the premiere of his dramatic cantata The Whale in 1968.

Lord Heare My Prayer Instantly is a composition by renowned contemporary composer Nico Muhly that was first performed on the 13th of December 2014 in the All Souls Episcopal Parish Church in Berkeley California. The piece lasts around 4 minutes and is arranged for unaccompanied SATB divisi chorus. This beautiful piece is a setting of an anonymous metrical version of Psalm 102:1-2 in which the speaker begs God to listen and hear his pleas. This work was first performed by The International Orange Chorus of San Francisco conducted by Zane Fiala in honour of their tenth anniversary. 

Contents: Clouds and Darkness * Lord * Thou Art My Refuge * Hear My Prayer * God is My shepherd * I Will Sing New Songs * Hear My Prayer * Lord * By the Waters of Babylon * Turn Thee to Me * I Will Lift Mine Eyes * Sing Ye a Joyful Song.

Hear My Prayer O Lord is one of Purcell's best known devout anthems - a stirring example of the beauty and power of dissonance and word-painting that builds to a soaring climax.

This beautiful piece by Tobin Stokes is loosely based on the five stages of grieving by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. The first section of the music set for 6-part treble choir on the text ?Hear my prayer Oh Lord ?is polyphonic at a subdued dynamic level. The second phrase of the verse ?and let my crying come unto thee ? is homophonic and builds to a full climax before diminishing to a very soft and passionate ending.

This exclusive collection brings together 12 of Nico Muhly?s sacred works for mixed-voice choir. These vivacious fresh and dramatic pieces will make an impact whether in the church or in the concert hall and range from the intimate Lord keep us modest when we claim to the effervescent Bright Star Carol alongside service music such as Muhly?s Third Service. All are accessible to learn and offer choirs a new slant on contemporary choral music at its very best.  'Choral music has always been at the emotional core of my musical output. Even when I?m writing large-scale orchestral works (or indeed chamber music) I alwaysfind myself returning to techniques and textures I?ve greedily stolen from centuries of music from Tye to Howells early and recent. I try to design my own choral music primarily for use in worship where the measure of the success of the piece is if it helps guide the listeners? ears upwards and elsewhere as sacred architecture and the various rituals of the church themselves are meant to do. The specificity of music heard only in certain seasons is for me an important and thrilling element of the choral tradition: a Beethoven Symphony is welcome at any point in the year but an anthem for Candlemas works only then at a certain time of day and on a certain day of the year. With this functional spirit at the heart of the compositional process I hope that the music collected here makes equal sense in a concert setting. These works range from ordinaries of the mass to hymns to motets and represent a decade and a half of output.' - Nico Muhly

Paul Cardall - 40 Hymns for Forty Days. Contemporary jazz pianist Paul Cardall released this 3-disc set of his performances of 40 timeless hymns in 2015. Our matching folio features piano solo arrangments of all 40 songs, including: Amazing Grace (for piano, cello and violin) · Be Still, My Soul · For the Beauty of the Earth · God Be with You 'Til We Meet Again · How Firm a Foundation · In the Garden · Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam · The Lord Is My Shepherd · Sweet Hour of Prayer · There Is a Green Hill Far Away · Were You There? · and more.

A song of faith and commitment. A solemn promise to live the life of grace that God intended for us. “We Are Yours Lord” is a prayerful anthem of dedication to serve and to share as good stewards of God's kingdom.Incorporating McAFee or “Near to the Heart of God ” this anthem is appropriate for worship throughout the year or for special services of dedication and commitment.

A Service Blessing. A final prayer for those who offer their song as an offering of praise, this brief piece moves beyond music to encourage hearts and lives in service to the Lord. A simple melody gently bathes the anthem with a sense of innocence and sincerity. Well-balanced unison and four-part writing is supported by a pleasant and effective accompaniment. A precious and reverent way to end a worship gathering!

(in C with Orchestra)-Malotte's setting of The Lord's Prayer has been lovingly adapted for SAB chorus in the key of C by Janet Klevberg Day.This heart-warming version is the perfect choice whatever the service or occasion.

(in C with Orchestra)-Malotte's setting of The Lord's Prayer has been lovingly adapted for 2-part chorus in the key of C by Janet Klevberg Day.This heart-warming version is the perfect choice whatever the service or occasion.

Nico Muhly's My Days for ATTB choir and five Viola Da Gambas. Parts for five Viols.This 16 minute piece of sheet music was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and the world première was performed by Fretwork and Hilliard Ensemble at Wigmore Hall October 2 2012.'My Days is a ritualised memory piece about Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) written for two ensembles whose recordings informed so much of my musical development. I feel like I spend half of my life trying to trick string players to play like Fretwork and vocalists to singlike the Hilliard Ensemble so it was with enormous pleasure that I composed this piece. The text isderived from Psalm 39 which Gibbons himself set as well as an account of Gibbons's own autopsy which is a poignant 17th century semi-anonymous text. One of the most thrilling things about the sound of five violas da gamba playing together is the sense of their phrasing being derived from vocal music but made somehow electric and ecstatic through ornamentation and the friction of the strings. The piece has an idée fixe based on a minor scale with two possible resolutions and many ornaments. In between iterations the voices in rhythmic unison intone the psalm. It isn't until the autopsy text arrives that the voices begin to split into more elaborate ?Gibbonsy? verses and responses. A series of semiimprovisedfragments on the text 'Take thy plague away from me' introduces the third section of the piece where plucked strings create a halo around the text 'hear my prayer OLord.' The piece ends with the ornaments wildly exploded over the voices singing two words endlessly repeated.' - Nico Muhly

This prayer is a buoyant and uplifting plea to God for Him to hear our words of adoration and our cry for guidance. Available separately: SATB ChoirTrax CD. Score and parts (fl 1-2 ob cl 1-2 bn perc 1-2 hp vn 1-2 va vc db) available as a Printed Edition and as a digital download. Duration: ca. 2:45.

Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music of the past five centuries.The first volume dedicated to anthems and motets presents both favourite and lesser-known works from the exceptional Renaissance polyphony of Taverner Tallis and Byrd through the Restoration led by Purcell to the glorious works of the great nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers including Wesley Elgar Stanford Vaughan Williams and Howells.The volume contains a number of more substantial works including Mendelssohn's Hear my prayer Stainer's I saw theLord and Naylor's Vox dicentis: Clama as well as a wonderful selection of shorter pieces from Gibbons's O Lord in thy wrath to Walton's Set me as a seal upon thine heart. With the second companion volume of canticles and responses this bipartite collection presents a comprehensive survey of English sacred music at its best.

with Open Our Eyes Lord-Here is a perfect pairing of a popular praise song with what has become a hymn standard of this generation. The blending of these two songs is seamless almost as if they were meant to be together. This setting may be used as a praise anthem call to worship or call to prayer. The BonusTrax featuring a rhythm section provides a rehearsal and/or performance option.