An Easter Awakening #1116
…music to commemorate the Christian Resurrection Festival and celebrate the earth’s joyful rebirth in springtime.
Hour 1
RICHARD WEBSTER (arranged): Christ the Lord is risen today - Festival Choir & Brass, Richard Webster, conductor; Thomas Whittemore (1921 Skinner/St. Luke Episcopal, Evanston, IL) Advent Press 2000
CHARLES MANNING: Improvisation-Fantasy, Christ the Lod is risen today –Charles Manning (1999 Goulding & Wood/St. Luke UMC, Indianapolis, IN) ChaZam 71917
SAMUEL SCHEIDT: Variations, Christ lag in Todesbanden –Frances Conover Fitch (1958 Flentrop/Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) OHS 2000
J.S. BACH: 3 Easter Chorale-preludes, from Orgelbüchlein: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 625; Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 626; Christ ist erstanden, BWV 627 –George Ritchie (1998 Fritts/Lagerquist Hall, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA) Raven OAR-580
Hymn settings were sung by the Fynske Chamber Choir of Denmark, Alice Joensen, conductor; Nimbus NI 5457/8
LANCE HULME: Toccata, Christ the Lord is risen today –Susan Bates (1999 Dobson-Rosales/West Market Street UMC, Greensboro, NC) Pipedreams Archive recorded April 19, 2009
SIR HENRY WALFORD DAVIES: O sons and daughters –Choir of Bath Abbey, Peter King, conductor; Marcus Sealy (1997 Klais/Bath Abbey, England, UK) Priory PRCD851
HERMANN SCHROEDER: Christ ist erstanden –William Watkins (1957 Aeolian-Skinner/Georgetown Presbyterian, Washington, DC) Vermont Organ Academy 02
CALVIN HAMPTON: Prayer and Alleluias, from Three Pieces –Michael Messina (1983 Schantz/Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, IN) Trinity 2009
Filler –RICHARD WEBSTER (see above)
Hour 2
TIMOTHY MOKE (arranged): 2 Easter Hymns: The Day of Resurrection; Christ the Lord is risen today –Timothy Moke, trumpet; Georg Masanz (1993 Hauser/Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Kirchdorf, Switzerland) Moke Recordings CD-2005
JOHN FERGUSON: Meditation on an Easter Hymn –J. Marty Cope (1990 Möller/Calvary Church, Charlotte, NC) Psallant Music 815
JIŘÍ ROPEK: Variations on Victimas paschali laudes –Cherry Rhodes (1999 Ott/Trinity Lutheran, Lansdale, PA) Pipedreams Archive recorded July 5, 2002
ANTON HEILLER: Fantasy, Victimae paschali laudes –Klemens Schnorr (4 organs, by Rieger, Marcussen, Spáth and Fischer & Kraemer/Münster Unserer Lieben Frau, Germany) Motette CD MOT 13231
MATTHIAS MÜCK: Chorale-prelude, O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden –Matthias Mück (2005 Eule/Cathedral of Saint Sebastian, Magdeburg, Germany) Unda Maris UM-20391
OTTO MARIA KRÄMER: Fantasy, Victimas paschali laudes –Otto Maria Krämer (2005 Eule/Cathedral of Saint Sebastian, Magdeburg, Germany) Unda Maris UM-20391
CARLOS XAVIER SANTIAGO: Iberian Feast of the Resurrection –Frederick Hohman (2004 Wicks/First Congregational, Kalamazoo, MI) Pro Organo CD 2006
TRADITIONAL: This joyful Eastertide –Choir of Church of the Advent, Boston, Mark Dwyer, conductor; H. Ross Wood (1936 Aeolian-Skinner/Church of the Advent, Boston, MA) JAV OLRC Special
Filler –OTTO MARIA KRÄMER (see above)
