All Saints Day - All Souls Day
I started downloading music from Rhapsody last Christmas, and now I've built a little library of favorites and ideas for various feasts throughout the year.
Here's what I have on my All Saint's Day list:
- Mass for Five Voices with Propers from the Feast of All Saints - The Sixteen
- Iste Confessor - The Sixteen
- Justorum Animae - William Byrd
- Justorum Animae - Orlande de Lassus
And here's the All Soul's Day list:
- Burial Sentences, "I am the resurrection and the life" - Elora St. John's Choir
- Introit Requiem Aeternum, Kyrie Eleison - American Boys choir
- Requiem Aeternum, Introito, Mode VI - Silos
- Sequence Dies Irae Dies Illa - (various versions)
- Lux Aeterna - Ambrose Karels, Silos
- Graduale and Introitus Requiem Aeternum - Gabrieli Consort
- Palestrina Missa Pro Defunctis - Chanticleer, The Sixteen and Harry Christophers
- Tractus Absolve Domine - Gabrieli Consort, William Lyons
- De profundis clamavi - Josquin des Pres
- O Domine Jesu Christe - Chapelle du Roi
- Offertory Domine Jesu Christe - Pierre de la Rue, Gabrieli Consort
- Antienne Amen Amen Dico Vobis - Benedictine onks of Notre-Dame de Triors
- Ludwig Daser, Dominus Regit Me - Capella Antiqua
- Illumina facem tuam - Dom Carlo Gesualdo
- Communion Qui manducat carnem meam - Monks of the Abby of Saint-Wadrille
I don't know why I wound up with so much more for All Soul's Day... I guess I really liked the idea of someday singing a full requiem Mass on this day, but it's not happening this year! I have, however, taught myself the Dies Irae. It's not hard. The St. Cecilia Schola very graciously provides the music here: Dies Irae. I like to sing it as a prayer with the intention of the Poor Souls who have no one to pray for them.
Next: Gregorian Chant at funerals - two viewpoints
