Choral (SATB) SKU: HL.14020971
Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical, General Worship, Sacred. Choral Score. Composed 1999. 8 pages. Chester Music #CH59881. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020971). ISBN 9780711928756. 6.75x9.75x0.039 inches.
This work was commissioned for the choir of St. Paul's Old Church, Edinburgh, who gave the first performance on the 11th of June 1989 at St. Giles' Church, Edinburgh, conducted by Leslie Shankland. This is a setting in Scots of the passage in the Apocalypse where St. John hears a voice from the throne, that voice appearing here as soprano-alto duets from a distance, building, as Davies has said, ' fine bridge' from the time of the Edinburgh church to the present. Both vocal groups sing in translucent modal harmony with organ support.