Psalms In Harmony is Jason Coghill’s recording of thirty-one four Psalms, in four-part acappella harmony. This is a compilation of two earlier releases. Jason sings all the parts in a wonderfully simple, yet devotionally rich album. I bought my copy as a download from CD baby for the bargain price of US$12. You can hear …
A continuing joy at mgpc is to sing one Psalm (at least) each week. Sometimes we’ll take a bit of license with a looser rendition, mostly a closer paraphrase. The scope of praise contained in these compositions is enormous. It’s worth saying again that the contemporary church’s application of singing ‘psalms, hymns and spiritual songs’ …
Preaching through the Psalms we arrived at Psalm 24, so we had to sing Ye Gates Lift Up Your Heads On High which is based on Psalm 24:7-10. This section of Scripture celebrates the coming of Messiah. It’s a sadness that Psalms have disappeared from a lot of Presbyterian churches. I expect they’ll come back …
I’m currently listening to the album release New Scottish Hymns. It’s available as a reasonably priced download from cdbaby. The first track is Were I To Cross, a paraphrase of Psalm 139. It sounded oddly familiar, and sure enough, it had featured on an episode of Songs Of Praise, with vocals by Emily Smith. Here’s …
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