Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: When David heard
• Composer:  Thomas Tomkins
• Voices:  AATTB
• Sheet Music:   www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index....  
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Sacred
• Motet by Thomas Tomkins - one of the greatest emotional expressions of the late Renaissance.
  Absalom, son of King David, was a handsome prince and considered by some to be worthy of the throne of Israel, even before David's death.
  One day, ...  moreMotet by Thomas Tomkins - one of the greatest emotional expressions of the late Renaissance.
  Absalom, son of King David, was a handsome prince and considered by some to be worthy of the throne of Israel, even before David's death.
  One day, as Absalom went riding, a tree's branches caught his luxuriant hair and he hung there helpless. He was slain by his enemies. King David was inconsolable.
  
  Performed by the dwsChorale, a multitracking one-man choir