I Saw the Lord

COMPOSER’S NOTE

Commissioned by the Choir of Magdalen College School, Oxford with words adapted by my brother Andrew from the Book of Isaiah and the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians.

It was first performed on 6 July 2013 at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford by the Choir of Magdalen College School, Oxford.

DURATION
4 minutes

CHORUS
SATB

INSTRUMENTATION
Organ

YEAR OF COMPOSITION
2013

PUBLISHER
Novello

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I saw the Lord,
High and lifted up:
His train filled the temple.
Yet now I see
through a glass darkly;
But then I will see Him
face to face,
with the Seraphim will sing:
‘Holy, holy, holy
is the Lord God Almighty,
the whole earth
is full of His glory’.

Words: adapted by Andrew Hawes (1954 – ) from the Book of Isaiah and the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians