18 Psalms from The Compline Psalter

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About 18 Psalms from The Compline Psalter

Psalm settings for men’s voices by Peter R. Hallock

Since its founding in 1956, The Compline Choir has sung psalms beyond those appointed for the office of compline, drawn from the Prayer Book, or Revised Common or Daily Office lectionaries, or those Peter Hallock was inspired to set to music. Hallock composed 48 psalm settings for men’s voices and arranged Psalm 150 by C. V. Stanford for The Compline Choir over an extended period from 1978 to 2009. Together, these form The Compline Psalter, so named by Dr. Jason A. Anderson, editor-in-chief and Peter Hallock’s biographer.

Like the psalm texts, Hallock’s musical settings are varied in mood, style, mode, affect, texture, voicing, form, and compositional technique. Each interprets or reveals the psalmists’ poetry in unique and memorable ways, always attentive to the inherent parallelisms contained in the psalms. While there is clearly a connection to plainchant, harmonized (or fauxbourdon) chant, and Anglican chant (like Psalm 91), Hallock’s settings are inimitable and distinctive. The musical language varies with each setting, and there are often surprises or unexpected turns, even in the span of single psalm.

These 18 psalms, together with the 23 psalms previously recorded commercially on Feathers of Green Gold, I Will Meditate, Draw On Sweet Night, What Hand Divine, and Of the Lord’s Mercies, bring to 41 the number recorded under Peter Hallock, Jason Anderson, or Markdavin Obenza. Psalms 12, 23 (Setting I), 82, 116, 119:33-48 (Setting II), 122, and 124, are yet to be commercially recorded.

The Compline Psalter is available for purchase from the Peter R. Hallock Institute.

Producer: Robin Ethridge
Audio Engineer: Bill Levey / VIA Audio Seattle, Washington
Graphic Design: Gregory Bloch
Recorded in October 2025 at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, Washington
Label: The Compline Choir; distributed by CD Baby
Release date: 15 April 2026

Track	Title	Comp./Arr.	Timing
1	Psalm 33:1-11	Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)	4:02
2	Psalm 33:12-22	Peter R. Hallock	3:46
3	Psalm 65	Peter R. Hallock	4:57
4	Psalm 98	Peter R. Hallock	3:59
5	Psalm 111	Peter R. Hallock	4:58
6	Psalm 145	Peter R. Hallock	7:14
7	Psalm 148	Peter R. Hallock	3:55
8	Psalm 13	Peter R. Hallock	2:48
9	Psalm 22:22-30	Peter R. Hallock	3:55
10	Psalm 57	Peter R. Hallock	5:42
11	Psalm 70	Peter R. Hallock	2:54
12	Psalm 32	Peter R. Hallock	4:31
13	Psalm 130	Peter R. Hallock	3:03
14	Psalm 15 (Setting I)	Peter R. Hallock	2:33
15	Psalm 66:1-11	Peter R. Hallock	4:15
16	Psalm 115	Peter R. Hallock	6:05
17	Psalm 126	Peter R. Hallock	2:28
18	Psalm 91 (Setting I)	Peter R. Hallock	5:06
		TOTAL TIMING	76:11

The Compline Choir
Jason A. Anderson, II Director

Alto	Tenor	Bass
Joel Bevington Joey Blundell John Garlid (12) René Marceau Tyler Morse Josh Sandoz	Layne Benofsky Gregory Bloch David Boeckh Theo Floor Carson Lott Fred McIlroy (14) Ken Pendergrass Jeffrey Ricco (13)	Carl Bolstad (13) Scott Fikse (8) William Hawley Paul Johns Scott Kovacs Jeremy Matheis Joel Matter William Turnipseed (5, 6) Gerard van Wesep James Wilcox

Numbers by singers’ names denote featured soloist track numbers. The organ featured on tracks 5 and 6 (played by William Turnipseed) was made by the Dutch firm D. A. Flentrop and installed in 1965, with major renovations, repairs, and additions by the Tacoma, Wash., based firm Paul Fritts Organ Builders of Tacoma, WA, in 1992, 1995, 2001, and 2011. The handbell featured on track 13 (rung by Jeffrey Ricco) was drawn from a set of bells cast by the Dutch firm Petit and Fritsen in 1965 and refurbished by Greg Cowan/CBR Handbell Repair in 2016.