One of the best aspects of Easter is the music ... written by some of the world's greatest composers. And the churches are filled with it during this, the most important holiday of the Christian year. Further, you don't need to limit your enjoyment of this glorious music to Sunday morning or even concerts in church. Why not consider purchasing several of these albums and bring the beauty home, take it with you in your car, or iPod, and let the wonder of this season lift your spirit where ever or whenever you are in the mood.
These albums are among the best, currently selling collections of Easter music.
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WILLIAM NEIL, Organist of the National Symphony Orchestra, is well known for his performances of traditional and contemporary organ music. Prior to his appointment in 2001 as Organist of The National Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC he served as Organist of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. He has performed with ensembles like the New York Trumpet Ensemble, Millar Brass Ensemble and Washington Symphonic Brass, and with the National Symphony under the baton of Slatkin, Rostropovich, Siciliani, Hogwood and others. Mr. Neil is the first Washington organist invited to perform on the Charles Fisk Organ at the Meyerson Center in Dallas, Texas. In 2001, he was a featured soloist in the inaugural concerts of the new Casavant Organ at Robert Jacoby Hall with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Inspired by the teaching of organists Leonard Raver, Arthur Poister and Will Headlee, and harpsichordist Anthony Newman, Mr. Neil has enjoyed a career! both onstage and in the classroom, serving on the faculties of George Mason University and The Catholic University of America as organ instructor. Many of his former students hold prominent academic and church music positions in the United States and around the world, and he is featured in recordings on the MSR Classics, Philips Classics, Sony Classical, Naxos, Summit and Newport Classics labels. William Neil was born and raised in Central Pennsylvania and attended Penn State University and Syracuse University.
Featuring over 7 centuries of beautiful and sublime pieces from Bach, Mozart, Part, Tallis, Tavener, Beethoven, Barber, Charpentier, Rutter and more. The pieces cover all phases of the life, death and resurrection of Christ, making it the perfect music for any Christian holiday and easy listening year-round.
Music for a Hidden Chapel
publisher: Hmf Classical Exp.
ASIN: B0001XP1UK
sales rank: 69856
price: $5.47 (new), $5.73 (used)
Music of Johannes Somary
publisher: Albany Records
ASIN: B0009ETW1K
sales rank: 328205
price: $12.82 (new), $12.82 (used)
Johannes Somary has achieved international prominence as conductor, composer, and organist. He is now in his 44th season as founder and Music Director of AmorArtis in New York. As a composer, he has won critical acclaim for his oratorios Ballad of God and His People and The Ultimate Quest as well as his dramatic cantata Is This Life?, given its premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in 1994. As an organist he has received critical acclaim for his recording of the Handel concerti. As a teacher, he served for nearly four decades as chairman of the arts-and-music department at Horace Mann School. He is currently artist-in-residence at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in New York City and in his 30th year as conductor of Connecticut’s Fairfield County Chorale. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland and graduated from Yale University. The composer writes: “Taroko Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, is so named because much of the melodic material first came to me on walks with a friend in a little mountainous region of Taiwan called Taroko. It was composed during the two months following my departure as music director of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. It was completed in October, 2003 and is in four movements. Easter Fantasia was first composed as a sonatina for trumpet and organ. In this form it was frequently performed by Martin Berinbaum, with me at the organ. It was re-designed for trumpet and orchestra in February, 2004. Much of the thematic material is based on Gregorian chants proper to the Easter season. The ancient hymn of thanksgiving known by its first two words, Te Deum, is still sung at the end of Matins on Sundays and on major feast days in convents, monasteries, and some churches all over the world. It is a jubilant hymn of praise to the Almighty. The Te Deum for the Millennium, which was commissioned by the International Order of Benedictines, was composed in 1999 and premiered in New York on May 23, 2001! . The work is a celebratory cantata scored for soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra.”
No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: RUSSIAN EASTER Title: RUSSIAN EASTER Street Release Date: 03/11/1997 Domestic Genre: CLASSICAL COLLECTIONS-ARTIST DESC.
Hail to the Chief
publisher: Altissimo Records
ASIN: B0006SSP6C
sales rank: 151427
price: $8.19 (new), $5.94 (used)
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