The Recovering Choir Director

St. Peter’s Church, Merchantville, NJ

Easter Sunday

Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite

• Vidi aquam: chant
• Propers:  from the Graduale Romanum
• Kyrie:  from Mass I (Lux et origo)
• Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus:  Thomas Tallis Mass for Four Voices (for ATTB)
• Communion motet:  Palestrina:  Sicut cervus
• On the organ:
  • J.S. Bach:  Christ lag in Todesbanden (prelude)
  • Two improvisations on the Victimae paschali laudes (at the procession, and after the Gospel)
  • Improvisation on Llanfair on a cornet separe in French Baroque style (at the Offertory)
  • Improvisation on O filii et filiae modeled after Messiaen’s Le Banquet Celeste (at Communion)
  • Alexandre Guilmant:  Offertoire on O Filii et filiae (Postlude)