This recording is VERY long, and quite a download if you're on dialup. (12 meg) This psalm ("Oh God, my God, why have you abandoned me?") is one of the few "through-composed" Gregorian chant psalms in the Graduale Triplex. It is incredibly expressive, and not likely to be part of the parish liturgy, since it is to be sung after the first reading as the responsorial psalm, and it takes fully 33 minutes to sing. But I can only imagine what it would be like to take part in a Palm Sunday liturgy that included this beautiful, haunting prayer.
Text, translation and reflection here
Recorded at Bernheim Forest, Sept 2004.
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