What’s on Great Sacred Music, Easter Day, March 31, 2013

 

08:00:30
Traditional Dutch, arr. Charles Wood: This joyful Eastertide
Cambridge Singers, John Rutter

 

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem, Op. 123
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt
Paul Trepte, organ

 

Alexandre Guilmant: Offertoire “O filii”, Op. 49 No. 2
Robert Delcamp, organ
Casavant organ of All Saints’ Chapel, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

 

08:16:05
Gregorian chant: Introit: Lux fulgebit VIII
Monks of Saint-Benoit Abbey, Andre Saint-Cyr
The abbey is on the shore of Lac Memphramagog in Quebec

 

Joseph Noyon, arr. Gerre Hancock: Christus Vincit
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys with the St. Thomas Brass, 
John Scott

 

Louis Vierne: Carillon de Westminster, Op. 54 No. 6
John Longhurst, organ
Performed on the Mormon Tabernacle organ

 

08:34:03
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, John Scott

 

Ludwig van Beethoven: Hallelujah ~ Christ on the Mount of Olives,
Op. 85
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw

 

08:44:33
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Easter ~ Five Mystical Songs
Corydon Singers with the English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best
Thomas Allen, baritone

 

Charles Koechlin: Chant de la Résurrection, Op. 179 No. 2
London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble, Christopher Larkin
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ

 

08:54:14
J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio
Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
Emily Van Evera, soprano; Caroline Trevor, alto;
Charles Daniels, tenor; Peter Kooy, baritone

 

09:36:11
George Frideric Handel: Messiah: Parts 2 & 3
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
Dorothea Roschmann, soprano I; Susan Gritton,
soprano II; Bernarda Fink, contralto; Charles
Daniels, tenor; Neal Davies, bass
The Foundling Hospital Version (1754)