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William Byrd - Quomodo cantabimus

Quomodo cantabimus is considered some of the most concrete musical expressions of Byrd’s repressed Catholicism. Quomodo is the setting of part of a psalm about living in captivity. It laments “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?”. The work origin is an extraordinary story: It was part of a motet exchange. In 1584 the Flemish composer Philippe de Monte sent Byrd his setting of Super flumina Babylonis, the first part of Psalm 137. Byrd answered by setting the next four verses of the same psalm in the same key and for the same number of voices. It’s both an interesting example of contemporary cultural exchange and also a composition full of somber beauty and longing. Support our work by making a donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_... *** Quomodo cantabimus Words: Psalm 137 vs. 4-7 Music: William Byrd (1540-1623)/Philippe de Monte (1521-1603) Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena? Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextra mea. Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio laetitiae meae. Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom in die Jerusalem. How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? If I should forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand fall idle. Let my tongue stick in my throat, if I do not remember you; if I do not keep Jerusalem as the greatest of my joys. Remember, Lord, what the sons of Edom did on that day in Jerusalem. *** BYRD ENSEMBLE, directed by Markdavin Obenza SOPRANO Ruth Schauble Margaret Obenza ALTO Joshua Haberman Sarra Sharif Doyle TENOR Orrin Doyle Carson Lott BASS Kevin Wyatt-Stone Clayton Moser Recorded October 2021 at St. James Cathedral, Seattle.