The work was first recorded by Matthew Best in 1987[2] and edited by Paul Hawkshaw in 1997[3] in Band XX/1 of the Gesamtausgabe, based on the dedicated Reinschrift, which had been retrieved in 1957 in a private collection in Vienna.

[2] During a concert on 25 June 2017 with the Missa solemnis, Łukasz Borowicz with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin performed also Bruckner's Psalm 114.

Dank für Rettung aus großen Gefahren (Thanks for salvation from great perils) The 209-bar long work in G major is written for five-part mixed choir (SAATB) and three trombones.

"[8] The trombones are so reinforcing the contrasts between "Es umgaben mich die Schmerzen des Todes" (shift to minor) and "Kehre zurück meine Seele" (return to major).

"), which are set in a two-voice canon over a dominant pedal, provide an effective bridge to the large-scale, five-voice double fugue,[7] which ends with a powerful unison on "im Lande der lebendigen.