Music for the Paschal Triduum is a recording of chant and polyphony for the "three-days-which-are-one-day": Holy Thursday night, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. Using music from the Western (Roman, Anglican, and Lutheran) and Eastern (Slav-Byzantine churches of Carpatho-Rus, Ukraine, and Russia) Churches, the Schola Cantorum conveys the mystery and majesty of the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The melodies associated with the texts and ritual actions of the Triduum both evoke the memory of the event, and when included in the celebration, help make it happen in the present.
Selections are:
Ubi caritas
Lord of Lords, Adored by Angels
Son of God, Accept Me This Day
Irmos IX, Great and Holy Thursday
Lamentations
Passion According to St. John
Blahoobraznyj Josif
The Wise Thief
Cantemus Domino
The Canticle of Moses
Irmos IX, Great and Holy Saturday
Da molchit
Ad coenam Agni providi
Christ Rising Again
Doxastikon, Paschal Aposticha (Carpatho-Rusyn chant), and Doxastikon, Paschal Aposticha (setting by the Monks of New Skete)
J. Michael Thompson is the director of music ministry at St. Peter's Church, where he is the founder and director of the Schola Cantorum. He has been a pastoral musician and liturgist for twenty years, as well as a composer, author, and a noted promoter of the Liturgy of the Hours and Gregorian chant in contemporary parish situations.
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