On 26 July 2006, in Devon’s Buckfast Abbey, the Exon Singers and conductor Matthew Owens performed Briggs’ setting of Psalm 121 for the first time on a BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Choral Evensong. Without the Frenchified flavours of Briggs’ organ-writing to underpin this work,
I will lift up mine eyes is a more overtly English piece, very much in the Anglican mould and sans ail.
from notes by Meurig Bowen © 2010
