The Roman Lectionary reform of 1969 called for a restoration of the "Great Fifty Days" of celebration between Easter and Pentecost. Music for Easter II serves as a resource for music liturgists in search of chant, hymns, and anthems for the season. If offers a time-honored treasury of old selections as well as new creations of variety and richness. The plainchant and the Renaissance motets recorded here express the rich patrimony of the Western Church. The newer music selections reflect the strivings of the Church for good contemporary music to enhance today's celebration.
Selections are:
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
Blessed Be the God and Father
Isti sunt agni novelli
Everyone Begotten of God
Although the Doors Were Closed
He Rose!
Christ, the Source of Our Redemption
Mane nobiscum, Domine
Christ Is an Offering for Our Sins
Alleluia! Cognoverunt discipuli
The Lord's My Shepherd
Paschal Lamb Who Suffered for Us
Ego sum pastor ovium
We Are God's Children Now
The Stone Which the Builders Rejected
Thine Is the Glory
You Gave Us Life
Populum acquisitiones
Let Us Love in Deed and Truth
Vidi civitatem sanctem
Shumayela
Cum venerit Paraclitus
Let Us Love One Another
He That Hath My Commandments
Within an Upper Room
Ego sum Alpha et Omega
We Have Come to Know
Available on cassette only.