Bless the Lord, O my soul
2000
by Jonathan Dove
Choir - Sheet Music

Item Number: 4373769
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Choir Sacred SATB choir and organ

SKU: PE.EP7608

2000. Composed by Jonathan Dove. Choral Works (inc. Oratorios). Edition Peters. Modern, Choral. Choral Octavo. Composed 2000; First Performance: November 10th, 2000 (Eton College Chapel Choir). Duration 00:05:00. Edition Peters #98-EP7608. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP7608).

ISBN 9790300756165. English.

Bless the Lord, O my Soul was commissioned by a group of people whose early lives were dedicated to choral singing. I wanted their Millennium Anthem to be a celebration of song, and Psalm 104 provided a wonderful sequence of expansive imagery. The organ part is quite virtuosic, beginning with a flourishing fanfare suggesting a heavenly vision, which provokes the choir into a wordless cry of wonder; in contrast, their first words are hushed, awe-struck. The organ creates a backdrop of twinkling stars for 'who coverest thyself with light' and a calm sea for 'who layest the beams of his chambers in the waters'. The hushed 'bless the lord' returns, but now fast and loud, ushering in the most dramatic imagery: the chariot of clouds, the wings of the wind, and finally the depiction of God's ministers as a 'flaming fire'

Jonathan Dove