Shushan the Palace: Hymns of Earth

Released

2003

Love is Everything: The Jane Siberry Anthology
(2002)

Shushan the Palace: Hymns of Earth
(2003)

Dragon Dreams
(2008)

Shushan the Palace: Hymns of Earth is a 2003 album by Jane Siberry.

It is her third Christmas-themed album, following 1994's Count Your Blessings, a live concert she performed with Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams, and 1997's Child: Music for the Christmas Season.

On Shushan the Palace, Siberry interprets several Christmas liturgical hymns by classical composers.

Track listing

"How Beautiful Are the Feet" – 3:35 - George Frideric Handel/Charles Jennens
"Sheep May Safely Graze" – 3:43 - Johann Sebastian Bach/Salomo Franck
"A Star Shall Rise Up Out of Jacob" – 1:39 - Felix Mendelssohn/J. F. Von Bunsen
"I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" – 6:07 - George Frideric Handel/Charles Jennens
"Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" – 4:49 - Friedrich Layritz/John C. Mattes/Krauth Spaeth
"In the Bleak Midwinter" – 4:19 - Gustav Holst/Christina Rossetti
"Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" – 3:05 - lyric collected by Joshua Smith, music by Elizabeth Poston
"Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light" – 4:48 - Johann Rist/Johann Schop
"If God Be for Us" – 4:22 - Handel/Jennens with additional lyrics by Peter Kiesewalter

Jane Siberry

Studio albums	Jane Siberry (1981) No Borders Here (1984) The Speckless Sky (1985) The Walking (1987) Bound by the Beauty (1989) When I Was a Boy (1993) Maria (1995) Teenager (1996) A Day in the Life (1997) Hush (2000) Shushan the Palace: Hymns of Earth (2003) Dragon Dreams (2008) With What Shall I Keep Warm? (2009)

Compilation albums	Summer in the Yukon (1992) A Collection 1984-1989 (1995) City (2001) Love is Everything: The Jane Siberry Anthology (2002)

Live albums	Count Your Blessings (1994) Child: Music for the Christmas Season (1997) Lips: Music for Saying It (1999) Tree: Music for Films and Forests (1999)

Singles	"Mimi on the Beach" (1984) "One More Colour" (1985) "Map of the World (Part II)" (1985) "Calling All Angels" (1991) "Sail Across the Water" (1993)

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