An hour of early music goodies.
This hour-long broadcast is a box of early musical delights. Paschali. This is the week of Easter, the feast on which Christians celebrate Jesus rising from the dead three days after his crucifixion. Reason enough for us to celebrate with an hour of Easter music!
Anonymous (Gregorian)
1. Victime Paschali laudes
Hortus Musicus
(cd: Gregorian Chant. Silva Records SILKD6039, 2005)
Orlando di Lasso (1532 – 1594)
2. Victimae Paschali laudes
Huelgas Ensemble & Utopia
(cd: Music from the Era of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, vol. 6. Etcetera Records KTC 1664, 2020)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 – 1594)
3. Victimae Paschali laudes
The Sixteen led by Harry Christophers
(cd: Palestrina vol.8. Coro COR16175, 2020)
Marcin Leopolita (1537 – approx. 1584)
4. Missa Paschalis
– Kyrie
– Gloria
– Credo
– Sanctus – Benedictus
– Agnus Dei
Il Canto
(cd: Msza Staropolskie – Early Polish Masses. ACD 018, 1996)
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 – 1745)
5. From: Missa Paschalis, ZWV 7 (1726)
– Kyrie
– Gloria
Gabriela Eibenová, soprano. Terry Wey, countertenor. Cyril Auvity, tenor. Marián Krejcik, bass. Ensemble Inégal and Prague Baroque Soloists led by Adam Viktora
(cd: Missa Paschalis ZWV 7. Nibiru 01582231, 2014)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644 – 1704)
From Rosenkranz-sonaten:
6. Sonate XI, “Auferstehung Christi”
– Sonata
– Surrexit Christus hodie
– Adagio
Addition:
7. From Sonate XII, “Himmelfahrt”: Courante
Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, violin. Battalia
(cd: Rosenkranz-Sonaten. Ondine ODE 1243-2D, 2014)
Image: Resurrection of Christ and Women at the Tomb, by Fra Angelico (San Marcus)
