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Level: Church Choir, or High School
Uses: General Anthem or Concert
Program Themes: Faithfulness, Deer, Love of the Divine
This Piece Would Program Well With: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks by Herbert Howells available from Sheet Music Plus and JWPepper
The delicate opening measures harken to Prelude in C from Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier mixed with a little of Franck’s Panis Angelicus. This sets the tone for an uplifting hymn-like work. Psaume 42 is worth more than a 30 second listen. Stick around for the whole picture as it unfolds and develops. The French text is based on the “Like as the Hart doth pant for fountains of water” text you are probably familiar with. The flute adds to the heavenly timbres that Anthony Sylvestre shares with our ears.
Your audience is going to love this!
Psaume 42 is available from Asturia Music:http://www.asturiamusic.com/
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