View Me, Lord, a Work of Thine

Accompaniment - ["Piano"]

To utterly abandon ourselves to God, we must trust him without reservation. English poet and composer Thomas Campion’s text captures the spirit of this trust in deeply meaningful language. Berkey’s romantic setting interweaves the elements of mixed voices, vocal and sectional solos, with contrasting ranges and colors in the piano accompaniment. Dynamics increase and textures thicken. A gentle alto solo floats above a low pedal point in the voices, leading to a coda that showcases voices and accompaniment in contrasting, repeating ostinatos that highlight the “endless” covenants that “know nor days, nor years.”