Ernst Stolz' recording journey through the Psalms has now brought him to Psalm 68, famous as the anthem of the French Reformed Christia...

Many North American Christians are unaware that the Reformation had an impact in east central Europe. Hungary was one of the countries aff...

I have recently been alerted to the existence of a scanned copy of the Psalterium Hungaricum of 1607, containing the texts of Albert Szenc...

Two more Goudimel arrangements of the Psalms from Ernst Stolz. Psalm 66, of course, has the same melody as Psalms 98 and 118, while Psalm 6...

The following appeared in the 11 February issue of Christian Courier as part of my monthly "Principalities & Powers" column:...

It seems that I am not the only person to suffer from the compulsion to versify psalms. Isaac Watts got there first some 300 years ago, as ...

Ernst Stolz has posted a delightful performance of Psalm 65, which sounds as if it were composed with recorders in mind.

Here is another lovely performance of a psalm in Korean, posted by our friend Jungwon Hwang. We trust that more such performances will be p...

Last year marked the 450th anniversary of the completion of the Genevan Psalter, as well as of the English-language Sternhold & Hopkins...

These are two quite lovely performances of the Psalms in Korean. For both Psalms 35 and 40 a soloist begins and is later joined by another ...

Last evening, as our family was reading a devotional on Psalm 50 , I happened to recall a song we had sung when I was growing up: He Owns t...

Tibor Tóth has posted another psalm performance by Hungarian soprano Judit Lengyel: Given the great length of this psalm, one cannot hel...

Six days after posting my second version of Mary's Magnificat , I am posting my most recent "Principalities & Powers" c...

The tune for Psalm 53 is, of course, the same as that for Psalm 14, which is not surprising given that the texts of the two psalms are nea...

Psalm 86 is not the only Genevan melody that Holst adapted for choral performance. He also arranged Psalm 124 using Clifford Bax's text...

One-hundred years ago the English composer Gustav Holst, best known for his series of orchestral tone poems, The Planets , composed a movin...

During this Advent season I have posted a second version of Mary's song, the Magnificat , in addition to my metrical version of this a...

Ted Olsen has written a fascinating article inspired by the recent decision of Boston's Old South Church to sell off one of its two re...