• Nicola LeFanu
  • Be still, my soul (2024)

  • Peters Edition Limited (World)

Commissioned for ORA Singers by Morny Hay Davison, in memory of her husband Ian Hay Davison

Composed for ORA to sing at a concert celebrating the quatercentenary of Orlando Gibbons, and to reflect his anthem 'O Lord in they wrath'.

  • SSAATB
  • SSAATB
  • 4 min

Programme Note

Be Still my Soul is written, as for the Gibbons, for SSAATB.

There are brief solos for soprano and tenor, which should be drawn from the choir. 

 

Be still, my soul; when dearest friends depart,

and all is darkened in the veil of tears,

then shalt thou better know His love, His heart, 

who comes to soothe they sorrow and thy fears. 

 

Be still, my soul; when change and tears are past,

all safe and blessed we shall meet at last.

 

From Stille meine Wille by Katharine Dorothea von Schlegel (1697)