The editors have selected a richly varied collection of sacred pieces for this period of the Church's year, always bearing in mind practical considerations and liturgical needs. Pieces are presented in order according to the Church's calendar, moving from Ash Wednesday and Lent, through Passiontide and Palm Sunday, to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter itself. The best of the standard repertoire is included alongside fine, less familiar, works. Ranging widely from the sixteenth century to the present day, this is a complete and practical collection for church choirs of all sizes and levels of ability.
Contents:
ASH WEDNESDAY AND LENT
Lent Prose
Byrd: Civitas sancti tui (Bow thine ear, O Lord)
Farrant/Hilton: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
Loosemore: The Litany (BCP)
Marshall: The Litany
Morales: Peccantem me quotidie
Morley: Agnus Dei
Rawsthorne: Like as the hart
Walton: Drop, drop, slow tears
Wesley: Wash me throughly
PASSIONTIDE
Anerio: Christus factus est
Bairstow: The Lamentation
Bairstow/Gibbons: Jesu, grant me this I pray
Chilcott: God so loved the world
Hand: Ecce quomodo moritur justus
Lassus: Adoramus te, Christe
Stainer: God so loved the world
PALM SUNDAY
Bullard: The Feast of Palms
Gesius: Hosianna dem Sohne Davids
Hutchings: Hosanna to the Son of David
Ives: Ride on
Malcolm: Ingrediente Domino
Victoria: Pueri Hebraeorum
MAUNDY THURSDAY
arr. Barnard: In the heart where love is abiding
Bruckner: (a) Pange lingua (b) Of the glorious Body telling
de Severac: Tantum ergo
Peeters: Ave verum corpus
Shephard: A new commandment
Shephard: Sing, my tongue
GOOD FRIDAY
Bull: In the departure of the Lord
arr. Chilcott: Were you there?
Croce: O vos omnes
arr. Scott: O mortal man
John IV of Portugal: Crux Fidelis
Morley: Eheu, sustulerunt
Sanders: The Reproaches
Victoria: Popule meus
EASTER
Easter Alleluias (a) Antiphon with psalm tone (b) Plainchant
Anerio: Alleluia. Christus surrexit
Bairstow: Psalm 114
arr. Carter: Joy is come!
Elgar: Light of the World
Harris: Most glorious Lord of life
arr. Ledger: This joyful Eastertide
arr. Lindley: Now the green blade riseth
Rutter: Christ the Lord is risen again!
Scheidt: Surrexit Christus hodie
Scott: Easter Anthems
arr. Scott: I saw water (Vidi aquam)
Shephard: The Easter Song of Praise
Stanford: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
Walford Davies, ed. Dakers: O sons and daughters
Whitlock: He is risen