"The basic poem, 'Patience, or Jonah and the Whale,' from Medieval English of the 14th-century, is interspersed with texts drawn from the Vulgate Psalms (4th-century), a Protestant Hymnal (17th-century), traditional worksongs and sea-shanties (19th-century), the King James Bible and several other sources"--container.

Text printed on insert ([4] p.)

Vern Sutton, tenor ; LeRoy Lehr, bass-baritone ; Arnold Walker, narrator ; Linda Wilcox, soprano ; John Brandstetter, baritone ; Plymouth Festival Choir ; instrumental ensemble conducted by Philip Brunelle.

Recorded in Minneapolis, 1982.