29. January 2017 · Comments Off on Sunday Evening Music · Categories: Sunday Evening Music

James Blycharz: Piesn o Sludze Panskim (Song of the Servant of the Lord)
Words from the book of Isaiah, chapter 53
Soprano: Katarzyna Firsowicz, Marta Furmanek, Elzbieta Gracz, Magdalena Kozlowska
Alto: Anna Groborz, Katarzyna Moskiewicz, Krystyna Potoczna, Agnieszka Wójcik
Tenor: Piotr Frankowski, Piotr Iwanski, Marek Nowak
Bass: Maciej Firsowicz, Krzysztof Groborz, Ermanno Martini, Stanislaw Wozny
Arkadiusza Kozlowskiego, Conductor

Ref. Arise, O Lord, save me, my God, the power fill my heart.

Who hath believed our report?
On whom is the arm of the Lord been revealed?
He grew up before us like a sapling
and as a root out of dry ground.

He had no grace or majesty,
to look at him;
despised and rejected by men;
he had no appearance that we would have liked.

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces;
he was despised, that we had him for nothing,
stricken that we recognize Him.

Surely he has borne our griefs
He carried our sorrows,
He was wounded for our transgressions,
and crushed for our iniquities.

The chastisement that made us fell upon him,
and with his stripes we are healed;
we have all gone astray like sheep;
each of us has turned to his own way.

The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
but he himself gave oppress, when he was tortured;
like a lamb to the slaughter,
like a sheep silent his mouth did not open.

Though he had done no harm
and in his mouth a lie never came
It pleased the Lord to crush him with suffering.
by the will of the Lord was fulfilled by Him.

29. January 2017 · Comments Off on Sunday Morning Music Bonus · Categories: Sunday Morning Music

… because it’s necessary:

What Does the Lord Require
Alfred F. Bayly

What does the Lord require
for praise and offering?
What sacrifice, desire
or tribute did you bring?
Do justly,
love mercy,
walk humbly with your God.

Rulers of earth, give ear!
Should you not justice know?
Will God your pleading hear
while crime and cruelty grow?
Do justly,
love mercy,
walk humbly with your God.

Still down the ages ring
the prophet’s stern commands:
to merchant, worker, king,
he brings God’s high commands:
do justly,
love mercy,
walk humbly with your God.

How shall our life fulfill
God’s law so hard and high?
Let Christ endue our will
with grace to fortify.
Then justly,
in mercy,
we’ll humbly walk with God.

29. January 2017 · Comments Off on Sunday Morning Music · Categories: Sunday Morning Music

Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen
Maria Magdalena Chamber Choir; Mats Nilsson, Conductor