Britten / Monteverdi Choir Love Is Come Again CD

Sir John Eliot Gardiner's personal curation of Easter Choral music inspired by his family's annual Easter Play at his home in Springhead, Dorset. A companion to the Monteverdi Choir's 1998 recording Once as I remember, which told the story of the Springhead Christmas Play. Structured around a series of tableaux, narrating through a combination of the different Gospel accounts, it is a dramatic retelling of the Resurrection story, employing disparate musical styles and frequent shifts of focus and perspective, all held together by the creative vision of a Dorset mother and her son. He writes: "This personal selection of music for Easter from the 11th to the 20th centuries tells the story of the Resurrection and Christ's appearances to his disciples. It is based on my experience of compiling and directing the music for a mimed Easter play, performed in village churches in Dorset every year between 1963 and 1984, the brainchild of my mother, Marabel Gardiner, to whose memory this recording is dedicated."

1. The 7 Virgins 2. O Vos Omnes 3. Woefully Array'd 4. Dum Transisset Sabbatum 5. Love Is Come Again 6. Surrexit Pastor Bonus 7. Eheu! They Have Taken Jesus 8. But Mary Stood Without the Sepulchre 9. Bless'd Mary Magdalene 10. And Behold Two of Them Went That Day 11. 3 Geistliche Ges?nge, Op. 69: No. 3, Abendlied 12. Alleluia. And It Came to Pass 13. And They Said One to Another - Verily the Lord Is Risen 14. Die Ganze Welt, Herr Jesu Christ - Surrexit Christus Hodie - Hilariter 15. Peter Saith, I Go A-Fishing (After J. Tisserand) 16. Missa Orbis Factor: I. Kyrie Eleison 17. Ego Sum Panis Vivus 18. Lov'st Thou Me? (After B. Britten) 19. If Ye Love Me