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Messiah ben Joseph
For those of you interested in Ben Joseph, there's a new book on the subject by Jan A. Sigvartsen, called Messiah ben Joseph: A Type In Both Judaism and Christianity (Glossa House, 2018). It's a shortish book. And at $15, won't strain your budget. I've written a review of it which will be forthcoming in JSOT, but which you can read online on my academia.edu page, tho you may need to sign in to access it. It's well worth a read, the book, that is. |
Friend of SInners
And here's another tune from my archives to wish you all a happy and cheerful January. Well I hope you like it. It's from an album I recorded when I was living in Edinburgh in the late 1990s. |
Halelu Yah! Praise God in his temple
This is my version of Psalm 150 which we recorded in Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh's Royal Mile in 1996. Well, better late than never, I guess. Hope you all like it. You'll get all the musician details with the video. And you can find the music on the Music page. |
The Tree of Life my soul has seen
We recorded this anthem at our Edith Cavell evensong on Tuesday night (10 October 2017). Hope you like it. The soloist is Lydia Stoddart. The music's my own. The text has been set many times. Some people think it's American. But it first appeared in a London publication, The Spiritual Magazine, in 1761, with the name of the author given as "R.H." A gentleman called Gerald Montagna has done some careful research and found out that it was written by an English Calvinistic Baptist pastor by the name of Richard Hutchins, who led a congregation in Long Buckby until 1764 or 1765. You can read Montagna's research for yourself. There's also useful info about the text on Wikipedia. |
Psalm 23
Here's another Youtube upload. It's my setting of Psalm 23. This was recorded in the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh in 1996. The lead singer is Helen Brough. There are backing vocals and violin by Suzanne Adam, and recorder by Sandy Nicholson. Synth and bass are by James Werner and Ian Maxwell. I play guitar and sing in verses 2 and 3. |
Miss Cavell again
 Preces and Responses are a standard part of the liturgy of Anglican Choral Evensong. There are similar liturgies in Catholic and Orthodox tradition, and their text goes back to the earliest centuries of the Christian church. |
Let there be a city
These days I've been uploading some of my favourite old recordings to Youtube. I don't know why it's taken me so long to do this. But I hope you like them. Here's my song, 'Let there be a city' which we recorded in Barclay Church in Edinburgh. |
Christmas Cantata backing trax
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