Rejoicing with Britten

Happy Easter Morning!

Our Evensong is a special one today, both for the sake of Easter and the sake of poetry. We're performing the cantata "Rejoice in the Lamb" by Benjamin Britten, set to texts by the brilliant and perhaps mad 16th century English poet, Christopher Smart along with some other terrific pieces. The postlude will be the La Resurrection du Christ by Olivier Messiaen.

Here's the whole program, hope you can join us on Radio Ville Marie for the live-streamed broadcast at 4:00 pm EST.

 

Easter Day 2011 Choral Evensong
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Sarabande for the Morning of Easter [Webster: listen], Herbert Howells (1892-1983) 

Introit: Jubilate in C [text/listen], Benjamin Britten (1913-76)


Preces and Responses: Paul Halley (b. 1952)

Psalm: 114, 150 (Tonus Peregrinus, Stanford)

Canticles: Chichester Service [Rochester: YouTube], William Walton (1902-83)

Anthem: Rejoice in the Lamb [text/listen]  Benjamin Britten

Postlude: La Résurrection du Christ from Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement [Latry: YouTube], Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)