Blest Are They (AOV 1/55)

This setting of the Beatitudes has never been used in our church to my knowledge.  Being Australian we know the Kearney one and we also do the Balhoff/Ducotte setting, so that might be enough. David Hass has written a very beautiful setting nonetheless.

The text is available here. It can be purchased for download at GIA.

It does suffer from the problem of the same tune but words having to fit differently in each verse.  A nice instrumental version (piano) with instructional video is available here. This ordinary (in the best sense) choir do a nice version here. My version tries for the tender and prayerful as instructed in the music.

 

 

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