Church Anthems
A selection of Bernard Trafford’s Church
Anthems
O
praise God in his holiness*
This festal setting of
the 150th Psalm was written for a wedding in 1995 (in eight parts for the
glorious acoustic of Bath Abbey where this première performance was recorded
and sounds magnificent, even with just one voice per part). Most of that
original version is actually in seven parts: the sopranos divide only for the
final chord. The piece is now available for SATB. Both versions are
unaccompanied.
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Link to score of original 8-part version and to MP3 live recording of first performance |
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Link to score extract of 4-part version and to MP3 recording |
O
sing unto the Lord a new song
A joyous setting of
Psalm 96, another wedding commission, originally written for SAAB (the voices
available for the occasion): published for standard SATB, but also available
for the original ensemble. Unaccompanied.
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Link to score extract |
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Link to MP3 recording (of original SAAB version) |
You
are the light of the world*
The text for this piece
draws on the various references in the Sermon on the Mount and elsewhere to
Christians as ‘the light of the world’: it ties in with the motto of the city
of Wolverhampton (‘light out of darkness’), whose civic church, St Peter’s
Collegiate Church, celebrated its millennium in 1994 when this piece was
written. This piece is now available in both the leaner SATB version and in the
original seven parts (SSATTBB): unaccompanied.
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Link to score extract of 4-part arrangement or of original 7-part (SSATTBB) version |
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Link to MP3 recording (of original 7-part version) |
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