The Preludes to be Offered on Easter Sunday

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