The Lord Is My Shepherd
Soul Music
BBC
4.7 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This much-loved hymn based on Psalm 23 has been set to music many times, including Brother James' Air and Crimond.
The Queen requested the Crimond version at her wedding. Harriet Bowes Lyon's tells the story that her mother, Lady Margaret Colville, (formerly Lady Margaret Egerton) taught the descant to the Queen and Princess Margaret, and was summoned to sing it when, two days before the wedding, the descant music could not be found.
Howard Goodall, who wrote a new setting for 'The Vicar of Dibley' describes how he composed it in a taxi.
Selina Scott says that the Crimond always puts her in mind of her Scottish grandmother.
Contributors:
Howard Goodall Ian Bradley Marion Dodd Emily Badger Athena Kruger Esther Sternberg Selina Scott Harriet Bowes-Lyon Adrian Goldberg
Producer: Sara Conkey
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Traitors is back, and so is that mysterious cloaked figure with the familiar fringe. |
| 0:06.6 | Yeah, it's me. |
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| 0:13.6 | And remember, I'll be listening. |
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| 0:32.3 | I'm Marion Dodd, and I live in the Borders, and I am a retired minister. |
| 0:37.1 | My grandfather was called W. Baird Ross, and he was quite ineminent. and I live in the borders and I am a retired minister. |
| 0:42.2 | My grandfather was called W. Baird Ross and he was quite an eminent organist. |
| 0:46.1 | He actually founded the Edinburgh Society of Organists 100 years ago. |
| 0:50.7 | Now, he was organist at a church in Edinburgh called Broughton Place Church. |
| 0:55.8 | And he had an assistant organist there, Mr Haynes, I think he was called. |
| 0:57.8 | And he, in the year 1912, went on holiday up to |
| 1:00.0 | Perthshire and at the Sunday |
| 1:01.8 | service they heard this new |
| 1:04.0 | tune to the |
| 1:05.8 | 23rd Psalm. Now this new |
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