#251: My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness

Translation by committee--this was put together for the "blue book" supplemental hymnal released in 1995, a version of the Magnificat (Mary's song of praise when she found out she was pregnant with Jesus). Interesting shift from "every land" shall praise God in the beginning, to the end being about God fulfilling specifically the promises made to the Israelites.

Arrangement is by the prolific Ralph Vaughan Williams, and features some very large tenor/bass jumps, including a couple places where they're an octave plus a fifth apart. That's a lot. (Again, in some of these places it's possible a smaller person could play it on piano by grouping the tenors in with the right hand, but still tricky.)