Performed in Heaven is a compact disc of metrical psalms recorded at the Psalmody Recitals, held each winter since 1971 (except 1977) at St Vincent Street Free Church in Glasgow, where sizeable congregations gathered from a variety of churches and denominations. The psalms on the compact disc are all sung by the entire congregation and, as such, reflect the unaffectedness of congregational praise. The recordings are an authentic reflection of the type of singing that has been heard in the Reformed churches of Scotland since the Reformation. In order to produce this unique compilation of congregational psalm-singing, it was necessary to re-master recordings made with the technology of an earlier era. Thus, the recordings themselves span a period of twenty-five years, with the majority being from the seventies or eighties.

Performed in Heaven: Congregational Psalm Singing from Scotland

Psalm 146:1-6 Hamilton

Psalm 45 v 13-17 - Gairloch

Psalm 2 v 6-12 - Montrose

Psalm 85 vs 1-8 (Irish)

Psalm 72 v16-19 (Effingham)

Psalm 145: 1-7 (Tune: Herongate)

Psalm 51 - St Kilda

Psalm 39 Copyright: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). Sung acapella at 28rd Glasgow Recital 1999 (Meter: CMD)

1 I said, “Now let me watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin.
I’ll put a muzzle on my mouth while I’m with wicked men.”
2 When I was silent and kept still and firmly held my peace,
Not speaking even what was good, this made my pain increase.

3 Because of this my heart grew hot; the fire burned strong indeed
The more I mused upon it all. Then I began to plead:
4 “LORD, show me that my life will end— how many days I’ll see—
And cause me, LORD, to understand how brief my life will be.

5 “O LORD, how short you make my days before I sink in death.
My years are nothing in your sight; man’s life is but a breath.
6 “Like shadows people go about; they bustle to and fro.
They heap up wealth, but do not know to whom their wealth will go.

Psalm 39 v1-6 (Tune: Kinlochewe)

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Sung from: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). Recorded at Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland (Meter: CM)

	4	One thing I’ll plead before the LORD,
			and this I’ll seek always:
		That I may come within God’s house
			and dwell there all my days—

		That on the beauty of the LORD
			I constantly may gaze,
		And in his house may seek to know
			direction in his ways.

	5	For in his dwelling he will keep
			me safe in troubled days;
		Within his tent he’ll shelter me,
			and on a rock me raise.

	6	My head will then be lifted high
			above my enemies;
		And in his tent I’ll sacrifice
			with shouts of joy and praise.

Psalm 27 v4-6 (Tune: Argyle)

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Psalm 12 sung a capella from Sing Psalm (2003)(Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). Meter: (11 10 11 10) Tune by Loys Bourgeois 1551 from the Anlo-Genevan psalter(aka DONNE SECOURS).

1 Help, LORD, because the godly have quite vanished,
and faithful folk we can no longer see.
2 Each one tells falsehood even to his neighbour;
with flattering lips they speak deceitfully.

3 Now may the LORD cut off all lips which flatter,
and every tongue which speaks with boastful word.
4 Such people say, “We with our tongues will triumph;
we own our lips—who then can be our lord?”

5 “Because the weak have suffered great oppression,
and I have heard the needy’s groaning cries,
Now I will guard them from those who malign them.
To help them,” says the LORD, “I will arise.”

7 O LORD, you will preserve us safe for ever
and from this evil age keep us secure;
8 For here the wicked strut about quite freely,
and praise is giv’n to all that is impure.

Psalm 12 (Tune: Genevan Psalm 12)

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Psalm 107 sung acapella from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650.
Singing by Dowanvale Free Church of Scotland. (Meter: CM)

 3  And gathered them out of the lands,
       from north, south, east, and west.
 4  They strayed in desert's pathless way,
       no city found to rest.

 5  For thirst and hunger in them faints
 6     their soul. When straits them press,
    They cry unto the Lord, and he
       them frees from their distress.

 7  Them also in a way to walk
       that right is he did guide,
    That they might to a city go,
       wherein they might abide.

 8  O that men to the Lord would give
       praise for his goodness then,
    And for his works of wonder done
       unto the sons of men!

 9  For he the soul that longing is
       doth fully satisfy;
    With goodness he the hungry soul
       doth fill abundantly.

Psalm 2 v 6-12 - Montrose

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