JOY — He Is Risen Indeed!

Hallelujah!. . .I know that my Redeemer liveth!. . .Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!. . .The strife is over, the battle done. . .The victory of life is won. . .The song of triumph has begun!

The music of Easter is here at last. It’s time to celebrate!

Music List

THEME: CBS MDK 44651
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: “My Spirit Be Joyful” from Cantata 146
Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York/Richard Kapp

1. Veritas 7234 5 1330 2 “Handel Messiah” 3:55
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Hallelujah from “Messiah”
Taverner Consort and Players/Andrew Parrott

2. EMI CDC 7 54134 2 “Light’s Glittering Morn” 6:40
HORATIO PARKER: Light’s Glittering Morn
Choirs of Washington National and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco/Douglas Major

3. EMI CDC-7 47395-2 “A Bach Festival” 3:35
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Sinfonia from Easter Oratorio
Empire Brass; Douglas Major, organ

4. CBS Odyssey MB2K 46515 “Bach Mass in B Minor” 4:13
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Et Resurrexit from Mass in B-minor
Gächinger Kantorei; Bach Collegium, Stuttgart/Helmut Rilling

5. Collegium COLCD 112 “Te Deum and Other Church Music” 2:45
JOHN RUTTER: Christ the Lord Is Risen Again
Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter

6. Collegium COLCD 107 “Faire is the Heaven” 2:15
arr. CHARLES WOOD: This Joyful Eastertide
Cambridge Singers/John Rutter

7. Hyperion CDA20420 “Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music” 5:28
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Easter from Five Mystical Songs
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers

8. Philips 434 695-2 “Handel Messiah 250th Anniversary Performance” 25:42
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: “Messiah” (250th anniversary of first Dublin performance, 1742)
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (5:21); Since By Man Came Death (2:01);
Behold, I Tell You a Mystery (0:22); The Trumpet Shall Sound (8:28);
Then Shall Be Brought to Pass (0:17); O Death, Where Is thy Sting? (1:08);
But Thanks Be to God (2:01); Worthy Is the Lamb (2:42); Amen (3:22)
Sylvia McNair, soprano; Michael Chance, alto; Jerry Hadley, tenor; Robert Lloyd, bass;
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner