The Seven Virgins, song ("The Leaves of Life"; from Herefordshire)
O vos omnes, unspecified
Woefully Arrayed, for 4 voices
Dum transisset sabbatum (i), motet for 5 (another version exists for 4) voices
Now the green blade riseth (tune: Noël nouvelet)
Surrexit Pastor Bonus
Eheu sustulerunt Dominum, motet for 4 voices
Die Auferstehung unsres Herren Jesu Christi, for 3 sopranos, 2 altos, 3 tenors, 2 basses, 4 viols & continuo, SWV 50 (Op. 3): But Mary stood without the sepulchre
Bless'd Mary Magdalene, song
Victimae paschali laudes
Abendlied, for chorus, Op. 69/3
Alleluia, Cognoverunt, motet for 4 voices (SATB)
And they said one to another (Wipo of Burgundy) / Verily the Lord is risen (Heinrich Schütz)
Die ganze Welt, Herr Jesu Christ (Jakob Gippenbusch) / Surrexit Christus hodie (Samuel Scheidt) / Hilariter (Trad.)
Peter saith, I go a-fishing (after Tisserand's "O filii et filiae")
Kyrie Eleison "Orbis Factor", 10th-11th Century Gallican
Ego sum panis vivus, motet for 5 voices (attributed)
Lov'st thou me?, for chorus (after Britten's Canticle II)
If ye love me, anthem for 4 voices
Surrexit pastor bonus, motet for 10 voices, C. 37
Non nobis Domine (Ps. 115/113b), organum (after 9th cent. Scolica enchiriadis)
John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir was well into its sixth decade when this album appeared in 2019, and the group's continuing relevance and vigor is certainly the result in part of its willingness to undertake new kinds of projects. Subtitled Music for the Springhead Easter Play , Love Is Come Again is a personal album for director John Eliot Gardiner, especially striking in that the Monteverdi Choir's usual sound, although warm, might be called abstract. The Springhead Easter Play is not a traditional village ritual ...
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John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir was well into its sixth decade when this album appeared in 2019, and the group's continuing relevance and vigor is certainly the result in part of its willingness to undertake new kinds of projects. Subtitled Music for the Springhead Easter Play , Love Is Come Again is a personal album for director John Eliot Gardiner, especially striking in that the Monteverdi Choir's usual sound, although warm, might be called abstract. The Springhead Easter Play is not a traditional village ritual but a mime event staged at Gardiner's family home, Springhead, and originally directed by the conductor's mother. The predecessor to this release was 1998's Once As I Remember, a collection of diverse Christmas pieces united principally by the fact that the Gardiner family found each work relevant to some aspect of the Christmas celebration. For Love Is Come Again the focus shifts to Easter, but the overall feel is similar, with the Passion story recounted though pieces of...
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