Contents: 1. Aus Der Tiefe Rufe Ich ('Forty Days And Forty Nights')2. Easter Hymn ('Jesus Christ Is Risen Today')3. Ellacombe ('The Day Of Resurrection')4. Erhalt Uns Herr ('The Glory Of These Forty Days')5. Fortunatus ('Welcome Happy Morning')6. Gaudeamus Pariter ('Come Ye Faithful Raise The Strain')7. Gwalchmai ('Christ The Lord Is Risn Today')8. Herzlich Tut Mich Verlangen ('O Sacred Head Sore Wounded')9. Herzliebster Jesu ('Ah Holy Jesus')10. Horsley ('There Is A Green Hill Far Away')11. Machs Mit Mir Gott ('Thou Hallowed Chosen Morn Of Praise')12. O Filii Et Filiae ('O Sons And Daughters Let Us Sing')13. O Filii Et Filiae (Vers. 2) ('O Sons And Daughters Let Us Sing')14. Old 124th ('Turn Back O Man Forswear Thy Foolish Ways') &('Eternal Lord Of Love Behold Your Church')15. Petra ('Go To Dark Gethsemane')16. Puer Nobis ('That Easter Day With Joy Was Bright')17. St. Albinus ('Jesus Lives! Thy Terrors Now')18. St. Flavian ('Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days')19. St. Kevin ('Come Ye Faithful Raise The Strain')20. St. Magnus ('The Head That Once Was Crowned With Thorns')21. Salzburg ('At The Lambs High Feast We Sing')22. Unser Herrscher ('He Is Risen He Is Risen!')23. Valet Will Ich Dir Geben (St. Theodulph) ('All Glory Laud AndHonor')24. Victory ('The Strife Is Oer The Battle Done')25. Were You There ('Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?')

?Mors et vita? death and life. This antithesis opens a stanza of the ancient 11th-century Easter sequence Victimae paschali laudes where life and death are locked in mutual struggle. Zsigmond Szathmáry?s 12-minute composition of 2015 commissioned for the Freiburg Minster interprets this primal human experience with mighty explosions of sound. Here the organ can show what it?s capable of: its grandeur and strength are fully exploited but not at the expense of soft and gentle contrasts. Typical of Szathmáry?s compositional style is the alternation of seemingly improvised recitative-like writing and passages in strict rhythm. Time and again the composer takes upelements from the church hymn Christ ist erstanden von der Marter alle (Christ the Lord is risen again).

Arr. Diane Bish. Renowned organist Diane Bish has created this unique and majestic organ solo for the advanced organist. It is ideal for Easter services and concerts.