Great new(ish) CD released with some great orchestration on Psalms. I picked this up yesterday and have been listening to it alot since then. I especially like the first track on the CD, Now Unto Jehovah, based on Psalm 29. There is a folk/celtic feel to the music. Track Four, Mighty Lord, Extend Your Kingdom, in particular has a strong Scottish aspect, evocative of Jacobites and Rebels and Highland Marches; it features The Parish Presbyterian Men’s Choir, lots of drums, and a real battle feel. And who can go wrong with tin whistles?
You can get the album at iTunes or buy it from Ligonier, where you can also download and listen to the first track in full.
Find more information on Gregory Wilbur, the composer, at his site. I love his ideas on the union of truth, beauty, and goodness and the idea that beauty as an aspect of God is thereby a theological issue.
The words for Psalm 29:
Now unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty, All glory and strength and dominion accord;
Ascribe to him glory, and render him honor, In beauty of holiness worship the Lord.The voice of Jehovah comes down on the waters; In thunder the God of the glory draws nigh.
Lo, over the waves of the wide-flowing waters Jehovah as King is enthroned on high!The voice of Jehovah is mighty, is mighty; The voice of Jehovah in majesty speaks:
The voice of Jehovah the cedars is breaking; Jehovah the cedars of Lebanon breaks.Each one, in his temple, his glory proclaimeth. He sat on the flood; he is King on his throne.
Jehovah all strength to his people imparteth; Jehovah with peace ever blesseth his own.
