A feast of music for the greatest season of the year
A real bumper collection of 132 sight-readable pieces by the finest composers to take you through the entire season of Lent, Holy Week and Easter.
Besides seasonal compositions there are hymn-based pieces including preludes and last verses, many in two keys to match both modern and older hymn books.
The Composers:
* A. E. Floyd
* Adrian Vernon Fish
* Alan Viner
* Andrew Fletcher
* Andrew Gant
* Christopher Tambling
* Colin Mawby
* Elizabeth Hill
* Harrison Oxley
* James Patten
* June Nixon
* Malcolm Archer
* Malcolm McKelvey
* Noel Rawsthorne
* Quentin Thomas
* Richard Lloyd
* Richard Pantcheff
* Richard Proulx
* Rosalie Bonighton
* Stanley Vann
Inhalt
Seasonal pieces
Lent and Holy Week
1. A Lenten Dialogue
2. A Lenten Prose
3. A Lenten Reflection
4. Consummatum est
5. Crucifixus
6. Jesu, victim blest
7. Lament
8. Lent lilies
9. Lenten Litany
10. Lenten Prelude
11. Mary at the foot of Jesus
12. Palm Sunday Processional
13. Parce Domine
14. Pensive Procession
15. Solemn Processional
16. Stabat mater dolorosa
17. The open heart
18. There was darkness all over the land
Easter
1. Alleluia! Resurrexit!
2. An Easter awakening
3. An Easter Fanfare
4. Christ is risen
5. Easter Alleluia
6. Easter Fanfare
7. Easter Fanfare and Processional
8. Eastertide Processional
9. In pomp and triumph high
10. Lord of majesty
11. Lumen Christe
12. Passiontide prayer
13. Sortie: Christ the Lord is risen again
14. This joyful Eastertide
15. Tibi, Redemptor omnium
Hymn-based pieces (Prelude and last verse)
Lent
1. Prelude and last verse
2. Abridge (Be thou my guardian and my guide)
3. Aus der Tiefe (Heinlein) (Forty days and forty nights)
4. Breslau (Take up thy cross)
5. Epworth (Forgive our sins as we forgive)
6. Gerontius (Praise to the holiest)
7. Misericordia (Just as I am, without one plea)
8. Petra (Redhead No. 76) (Rock of ages)
9. Quam dilecta (My spirit longs for thee)
10. Repton (Dear Lord and Father of mankind/The night before our Saviour died)
11. Southwell (Damon) (Lord Jesus, think on me)
12. St Hugh (Lord, teach us how to pray)
Passiontide / Holy Week
1. St Theodulph (All glory, laud and honour)
2. Winchester New (Ride on, ride on in majesty)
3. O waly, waly (An upper room did our Lord prepare)
4. Song 1 (O thou, who at thy eucharist didst pray)
5. Tantum ergo (Grafton) (Now, my tongue, the mystery telling)
6. Crucifer (Lift high the cross)
7. Horsley (There is a green hill far away)
8. Passion Chorale (O sacred head, surrounded)
9. Rockingham (When I survey the wondrous cross)
10. Were you there (Were you there when they crucified my Lord?)
11. Wychbold (In the cross of Christ I glory)
12. Albano (O dearest Lord, thy sacred head)
13. Bow Brickhill (We sing the name of him who died)
14. Caswall (Glory be to Jesus)
15. Herongate (It is a thing most wonderful)
16. Love unknown (My song is love unknown)
17. Olivet (My faith looks up to thee)
18. Slane (Come, wounded healer)
19. Song 13 (Canterbury) (Jesu, grant me this, I pray)
20. St Bernard (All ye who seek a comfort sure)
21. St Christopher (Beneath the cross of Jesus)
22. Stabat Mater (At the cross her station keeping)
Easter
1. Christ arose (Low in the grave he lay)
2. Christchurch (Now is the eternal life)
3. Easter hymn (Jesus Christ is risen today)
4. Ellacombe (The day of resurrection)
5. Gelob't sei Gott (Vulpius) (Good Christians all, rejoice and sing)
6. Lasst uns erfreuen (Light's glittering morn)
7. Lux eoi (Alleluia, hearts to heaven and voices raise)
8. Maccabaeus (Thine be the glory)
9. Noel nouvelet (Now the green blade riseth)
10. O filii et filiae (O sons and daughters, let us sing)
11. Salzburg (At the Lamb's high feast we sing)
12. Savannah (Love's redeeming work is done)
13. St Albinus (Jesus lives! thy terrors now)
14. St Fulbert (Ye choirs of new Jerusalem)
15. St John Damascene (Come, ye faithful, raise the strain)
16. St Michael (The Lord is risen indeed)
17. Thornbury (You stood there on the shoreline)
18. This joyful Eastertide (Vreuchten) (This joyful Eastertide)
19. Victory (The strife is o'er, the battle done)
20. Württemberg (Christ the Lord is risen again)
