Take note, those who enjoy music written for the quintessential church instrument:
Praises to the Paschal Victim Victimae
Paschali laudes (“Christians, to the Paschal Victim”)
Traditional Sequence Hymn for
Easter: Plainsong, Mode 1; melody att.
Wigbert [Wipo of Burgundy] (d. 1050?)
The Easter Sequence: Victimae
Paschali laudes (“Christians, to the Paschal Victim”)
Setting by Wilbur Held (1914-2015)
Ad cenam Agni providi
(“The Lamb’s High Banquet”)
Plainsong hymn for Eastertide: Mode 8,
Paris MS, 12th cent.;
setting by Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
At the Lamb’s High Feast We
Sing (Sonne der Gerechtigkeit)
Melody from Bohemian Brethren,
Kirchengesang, 1566; setting by Theodore Beck (1929-2003)
Christ lag in Todesbanden
(“Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands”)
German melody based on Victimae Paschali laudes,
from Geystliche
gesangk Buchleyn, 1524
Christ lag in Todesbanden
(“Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands”; BWV 625)
Setting by Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Christ ist erstanden (“Christ
the Lord is Risen Again!”)
Melody based on Victimae Paschali
laudes, from Geistliche Lieder, 1533;
setting by Hermann Schroeder
(1904-1984)
Erstanden ist der heil’ge
Christ (“The Blessed Christ is Ris’n Today, Alleluia!”;
BWV 628)
German melody, 14th cent., based on the
Latin hymn Surrexit Christus hodie;
setting by J.S. Bach
