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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 106:1-5 Warwick

Psalm 27 v 4-7 - Wetherby

Psalm 21 v 1-6 - Torwood

Psalm 116 v 13-19 (Artaxerxes)

Psalm 86 v 13-17 - Evan

A few recordings from a lovely congregation praise night.

Psalm 116 - Cunningham

Psalm 89 v 1-6 (Argyle)

Psalm 142 (Coleshill)

Psalm 95 
Scottish psalter 
Tune- Gainsborough 
Verses- 1-5

Sung 2025 at one of the regular gatherings. Precented by David McKay

Psalm 95 (Gainsborough) V1-5

Frought with error, but a worthwhile endeavour.

Ps 40 v 1-5 Ballerma

Fraught with error, but a worthwhile endeavour.


Ps 73 v 23-28 Wetherby

Ps 117 New Lydia (R)

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Psalm 43 sung acapella from The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. (Meter: CM)

3  O send thy light forth and thy truth;
         let them be guides to me,
      And bring me to thine holy hill,
         ev'n where thy dwellings be.

   4  Then will I to God's altar go,
         to God my chiefest joy:
      Yea, God, my God, thy name to praise
         my harp I will employ.

 5  Why art thou then cast down, my soul?
         what should discourage thee?
      And why with vexing thoughts art thou
         disquieted in me?

      Still trust in God; for him to praise
         good cause I yet shall have:
      He of my count'nance is the health,
         my God that doth me save.

Psalm 43 Tune - Invocation by Bon Accord choir

Psalm 43 (Tune: Invocation)

The name of God I with a song
         most cheerfully will praise;
      And I, in giving thanks to him,
         his name shall highly raise.

  33  For God the poor hears, and will not
         his prisoners contemn.
  34  Let heav'n, and earth, and seas, him praise,
         and all that move in them.

  35  For God will Judah's cities build,
         and he will Zion save,
      That they may dwell therein, and it
         in sure possession have.

  36  And they that are his servants' seed
         inherit shall the same;
      So shall they have their dwelling there
         that love his blessèd name.

Psalm 69 (Tune: St Leonard)

Psalm 118 sung Acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650. Recorded at Dowanvale Free Church. (Meter: CM) Support the psalms: www.patreon.com/psalms

17  I shall not die, but live, and shall
       the works of God discover.
18  The Lord hath me chastised sore,
       but not to death giv'n over.

19  O set ye open unto me
       the gates of righteousness;
    Then will I enter into them,
       and I the Lord will bless.

20  This is the gate of God, by it
       the just shall enter in.
21  Thee will I praise, for thou me heard'st
       and hast my safety been.

Psalm 86 v 13-17 - Evan

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