Music for Easter Sunday, 24 April 2011

Music for Easter Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 625) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Mass for Four Voices (1641) (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Gregorian Mass of Easter Sunday: Resurrexi
Motet at the Offertory: Surrexit Christus (Giovanni Gabrieli, c.1554-1612) (arr. Hughes)
Motet at the Communion: Congratulamini mihi (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-c.1562)
Postlude: Final from Symphony No. 6 (Op. 42, No. 2) (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~
Venetian music for choir, organ, and trombone
Terrence B. Fay, trombone
David J. Hughes, organ

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Music for Easter Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Introit: Resurrexi (plainsong, mode iv)
Kyrie: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes (plainchant, mode i)
Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (mode vii)
Motet at the Offertory: Haec dies (Ludovico da Viadana, 1564-1627)
Hymn at the Offertory: The Strife Is O’er (Victory)
Communion: Pascha nostrum (mode vi)
Organ music as above

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~

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