A Resurrection Festival #0811
…celebratory music for choirs and instruments in observance of the springtime Christian Easter.
Part 1
JOHN RUTTER (arranged): Easter Hymn, Jesus Christ is risen today –Choir of Saint Thomas Church, John Scott, conductor; Jeremy Bruns (1956 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Thomas Episcopal, New York, NY) Pro Organo CD 7209
J.S. BACH: Easter Chorale, Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn, S. 342. JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS: Chorale-prelude, Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn –Felix Friedrich (1746 Hildebrandt/St. Wenzel Church, Naumburg, Germany) Querstand CD-0203
J.S. BACH: 3 Easter Chorale-preludes: Christ lag in Todesbanden, S. 625; Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, S. 626; Christ ist erstanden, S. 627 –Cristina Garcia Banegas (1993 Grenzing/National Conservatory, Lyon, France) Perro Andaluz 1080
LYNN TRAPP: Images of the ‘Exultet’ Chant –Dr. Jennifer Pascual (1930 Kilgen/St. Patrick Cathedral, New York, NY) JAV CD-152
Part 2
MARCEL DUPRÉ: Crucifixion& Resurrection, from Symphonie-Passion, Opus 23 –Louis Robilliard (1888 Cavaillé-Coll/Basilique Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, France) Festivo 6961 942
PER HJORT ALBERTSEN: Chaconne, Crucifixus and Fugue, Opus 43 –Felix Friedrich (1977 Mühleisen/St. Boniface Church, Munich, Germany) Querstand CD-9601
KENNETH LEIGHTON: An Easter Sequence: Introit, Gradual and Offertory –Benjamin Burrant, treble; Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet; Choir of Saint John’s College, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson, conductor; Christopher Whitton (1994 Mander/St. John College Chapel, Cambridge, England, UK) Naxos 8.555795
Part 3
JEAN-YVES DANIEL-LESUR: In Paradisum –Dominique Joubert (1915; 1996 Casavant Frères/Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal, Québec, Canada) Eclectra CD-2069
ANTONIO CORREA BRAGA: Batalha de 6eme Ton –Gerhard Gnann (1779 Llañeza/Church of San Cipriano, Fontiveros, Spain) Organum CD-240048
JEAN LANGLAIS: Mors et resurrectio, Opus 5, number 1 –Susan Ferré (1998 Fritts/Lagerquist Hall, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA) Gothic G49211
JOHN SCOTT (arranged): He is risen –Choir of Saint Thomas Church, John Scott, conductor; Jeremy Bruns (1956 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Thomas Episcopal, New York, NY) Pro Organo CD 7209
Filler –MARCEL DUPRÉ: Resurrection (see above)
