About This Song
About "S. Wesley, Smart: Psalm 22 "Deus, Deus meus"" by Andrew Lucas
S. Wesley and Smart's setting of Psalm 22 is a cry from the abyss, rendered in Andrew Lucas's austere choral line. 'Deus, Deus meus' hangs in the air like a question mark—the calm of ritual masking the raw terror of abandonment, a solitary voice against the vast, unanswering nave.