Last year I reviewed the wonderful album of Genevan Psalms in Polish produced by Cithara Sanctorum. This was shortly after I had had the privilege of spending time with Andrzej Polaszek, a Reformed pastor in Poland whose wife Agata directs Cithara Sanctorum. Because they live in the city of Poznan, the collection is known as the Psałterz Poznański. In my review, I highly recommended this album but hinted that it might be hard to come by for North Americans and others outside of Poland. However, the entire album has now been posted on YouTube for the entire world to enjoy: Psalmy -- album Cithara Sanctorum. Here is Psalm 11:
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I listened to it while reading the first two verses in Englsih. Satisfying! I could not find edition with all the verses.
Then I found this in French. Unfortunately the metre of the words did not fir the metre of the recorded tune.
Bill, this is actually true of every version of the Genevan Psalter that I am aware of. The stresses in the text do not always match the stresses in the tune. This is one of the reasons I began working on my own texts in the mid 1980s.
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