This exact chant was sung for Thursday, 9 Sept 2010, in the Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity. Psalm 44-46 were the Psalms for Morning Prayer. A glorious Psalm.
The eclipse of Psalm-singing by hymnody in the 19th and 20th centuries in the West is one of the great losses for true, catholic and apostolic churches. While great hymns of the past have their place, the loss of Psalm-singing has adversely affected doctrine, worship and piety.
This rendition afforded on this clip from www.youtube.com is exactly the one performed from the Psalter-set from St. Paul's Cathedral, London, UK. (It is a bit faster, if not more energetic, at points by comparison with the choristers of St. Paul's--a set we continue to recommend for daily double use for one's work at Morning Prayer and Evensong. Ps.42.10: the Psalmist praised the LORD by day and during the evening season. 1662 BCP Churchmen, if faithful to their heritage, do this...as ordered. Expect, as a result, a deeping sense of alientation as you live as an "Anglican in the Wilderness." You will also sense a growing alienation from the mainline and Methodobaptocstal descendents in the evangelical world. But, you will be enriched by the faithful singing of the Psalms.)
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