Video Information

• Choir: RSCM Course in Canterbury
• Piece: Expectans expectavi
• Composer:  Charles Wood
• Conductor:  Martin How
• Voices:  SATB and organ
• Genres: Classical, Sacred, Cayhedral music
• This sanctuary of my soul,
  Unwitting I keep white and whole,
  Unlatch'd and lit, if Thou should'st care
  To enter or to tarry there.
  
  With parted lips and outstretch'd hands,
  And list'ning ears Thy servant stands.moreThis sanctuary of my soul,
  Unwitting I keep white and whole,
  Unlatch'd and lit, if Thou should'st care
  To enter or to tarry there.
  
  With parted lips and outstretch'd hands,
  And list'ning ears Thy servant stands.
  Call Thou early, call Thou late,
  to Thy great service dedicate.
  My soul, keep white, and whole.
  
  (poem by Charles Hamilton Sorley)
  
  Sung at Canterbury Cathedral during our Royal School of Church Music Summer Course in 1986, under Martin How.
  I (David W Solomons) was one of the altos.
  John Huntley - a fellow alto - recorded this performance.
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