Our Favorite Holy Week Recordings - Part 2

The week leading up to Easter is usually referred to as Holy Week, and encompasses many major days of celebration. We have many great recordings of choral and organ music that is appropriate for these celebrations, but this week we thought we would feature some of our favorites! Make sure to see the albums featured yesterday!

Dubois: The Seven Last Words of Christ
Choir of First United Methodist Church, Lubbock, Texas
Teresa Maria Gomez, soprano
Kim Childs, tenor
Edward Pleasant, baritone
Frederick Swann, organist
Gordon McMillan, conductor

A timeless, Romantic setting of the agony of Christ's Passion, this CD is consistently a Gothic Catalog best seller. Sung in English, and beautifully accompanied on organ by Frederick Swann. Also included are Mendelssohn's classic "Hear My Prayer" and Dubois' Grand Chorus for organ.

Hear My Prayer—Mendelssohn (Teresa Maria Gomez, soprano)
Grand Chorus—Dubois (organ solo)
The Seven Last Words—Dubois

Easter on Fifth Avenue
Choir of Saint Thomas Church, New York City
The Saint Thomas Brass
Jeremy S. Bruns, Associate Organist
Christian Lane, Assistant Organist
John Scott, director

John Scott directs the famous Saint Thomas boys choir in Easter favorites.

Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn) · arr. John Rutter
Haec dies · William Byrd
Most glorious Lord of life · William H. Harris
Christus Vincit · Joseph Noyon, arr. Gerre Hancock
Dum transisset sabbatum · John Taverner
My beloved spake · Patrick Hadley
Come ye faithful, raise the strain (Gaudemus Pariter) · arr. John Scott
Feierlicher Einzug (Solemn Entry for the Knights of St. John) for brass quintet, timpani and organ [1909] · arr. by Scott McIntosh · Richard Strauss
Surrexit Christus hodie · Samuel Scheidt, ed. John Rutter
Lord of the Dance · arr. John Bertalot
Dic nobis, Maria · Giovanni Bassano
If ye be risen again with Christ · Orlando Gibbons
Sing ye to the Lord · Edward C. Bairstow
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem · Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
He is risen, He is risen (Unser Herrscher) · arr. John Scott
Grand Choeur Dialogue for brass, timpani and organ · Eugene Gigout · arr. by Scott McIntosh



Easter Sunday in Imperial Vienna 1666
Antonia Bertali: Missa Resurrectionis
Spiritus Collective
Yale Collegium Players, Robert Mealy, director
Ilya Poletaev, organ
Yale Schola Cantorum, directed by Simon Carrington