About This Song
About "E.J. Hopkins, Stewart: Psalm 36 "Dixit iniustus"" by St Paul's Cathedral Choir
Hopkins and Stewart's setting of Psalm 36 opens with a sinister organ pedal, the choir's tenors intoning the wicked man's transgression. The tension is moral: a calm, measured delivery of damning words, the trebles breaking through like a plea for mercy. The final cadence offers no resolution, only a hanging question.