Music for Easter Sunday, 12 April 2009

Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 625) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina cæli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Easter Sunday: Resurrexi
Motet at the Offertory: Terra tremuit (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Haec dies (Byrd)
Postlude: Fugue on Hallelujah! Gott zu loben (Op. 52, No. 3) (Max Reger, 1873-1916)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~

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Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Introit: Resurrexi (plainsong, mode iv)
Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes (plainchant, mode i)
Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (mode vii)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Communion: Pascha nostrum (mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Organ music as above

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~

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