


Easter has not prompted the kind of music Christmas has — the volume of music Christmas has. You could fill libraries with Christmas music. You could fill record stores (if we still had record stores). (Do we have libraries?) But of Easter music, there is a repertoire. My latest music podcast — latest Music for a While — is devoted to Easter.
Is every item in this podcast strictly about Easter? No — but every item is in the ballpark.
I have Bach, naturally — a chorus from the Easter Oratorio, an aria from the St. Matthew Passion. I have the Easter Hymn from Cavalleria rusticana. A spiritual, a gospel song. An aria from Messiah (naturally). A bit of the Russian Easter Festival Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov). (The Orthodox Easter is not until April 16, but who wants to wait?) A slice of Fauré. And, finally, the conclusion of the “Resurrection” Symphony (Mahler).
You may well like it. To give it a try, that podcast is, again, here. Happy Easter.