Pascha Nostrum ("Our Passover") is the Alleluia for Easter Day. Here's a beautiful version chanted by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault (France):
Pascha Nostrum is also the Communion Hymn for Easter Day. Here it is sung by the Gloriæ Dei Cantores Schola:
The text for both comes from 1 Corinthians 5, v. 7-8:
Here's William Byrd's polyphonic version of the Communio text:
Here's another version of the shorter Alleluia text, by Léonin (1150 - 1201?); this was recorded by the Early Music Consort of London in 1975 (it says).
Don't quite know what this "Medieval Chant of the Cathedral of Benevento" (sung by Ensemble Organum) is. Beautiful, though!
Pascha Nostrum is also the Communion Hymn for Easter Day. Here it is sung by the Gloriæ Dei Cantores Schola:
The text for both comes from 1 Corinthians 5, v. 7-8:
7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Here's William Byrd's polyphonic version of the Communio text:
Here's another version of the shorter Alleluia text, by Léonin (1150 - 1201?); this was recorded by the Early Music Consort of London in 1975 (it says).
Don't quite know what this "Medieval Chant of the Cathedral of Benevento" (sung by Ensemble Organum) is. Beautiful, though!
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