Our Favorite Holy Week Recordings

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!

Easter—Hymns, Carols and Anthems
Choir of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, California
All Saints' Brass Ensemble
Craig Phillips, organist
Thomas Foster, director
World Premier Recordings!

Tom Foster and the choir of All Saints' present a program of Easter music, including a significant number of first recordings. Supplemented by an eleven member brass ensemble and the organ playing of Craig Phillips, this CD shows why this choir is among the most highly regarded in Episcopal churches. Intentional, focused, spiritual singing.

Includes "Jesus Christ is risen today", "Now the Green Blade Riseth", and Britten's Festival Te Deum.


J.S. Bach: St John Passion (1725 version)
Derek Chester, Evangelist
Douglas Williams, Jesus
Ilya Poletaev, organ
William Perdue, violoncello
Abigail Haynes and Mellissa Hughes, soprano
Ian L. Howell and Sylvia Aiko Rider, alto
Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor
Joshua Copeland, bass
Yale Collegium Players (Robert Mealy, director)
Yale Schola Cantorum
Simon Carrington, director

The rarely performed 1725 version of Bach’s St. John Passion is presented by Yale University’s premier early-music ensembles. Simon Carrington, who initiated his illustrious musical career as cofounder of the King’s Singers, directs this live performance.

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