We are pleased to bring you this special Easter Day recital, recorded by Christ Church Edmonton and shared with the Cathedral as a sign of friendship across the mountains. 

Featuring: 

Nathan Berg (bass-baritone)
Joy Berg (accompanist)
and Caroline Liefferts (narrator)
and Daniel Vanheyst (photos)

The First Easter (Thekla Hollingsworth/Carl Fredrickson)
EXPECTING DEATH (Susan Palo Cherwien, from Crossings)

Hymn: Christ the Lord is Risen Today (CP #206) (using arrangement by John Innes)
1. Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high: alleluia
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply: alleluia!

2. Love’s redeeming work is done, alleluia
Fought the fight, the battle won, alleluia.
Death in vain forbids him rise, alleluia!
Christ has opened paradise, alleluia!

3. Lives again our glorious King, alleluia.
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once he died our souls to save, alleluia.

Where’s thy victory, boasting grave! Alleluia!

THE SUN COMES FORTH (Susan Palo Cherwien, from Crossings)

Rise Now, My Heart, With Gladness (Gerhardt and Cruger, adapted by J.S. Bach, edited by K. Lee Scott)

THE SONG OF RESURRECTION (Susan Palo Cherwien, from From Glory Into Glory)

Lord of the Dance (using arrangement by Mark Hayes)

THE SONG OF HOPE (Susan Palo Cherwien, from From Glory Into Glory)

Hallelujah (G. P. Telemann)

THE ETERNAL EASTER (Susan Palo Cherwien, from From Glory Into Glory)

I Know that My Redeemer Lives
(using the “theme and variations on DUKE STREET” by Anne Krentz Organ)

RISE HEART, THY LORD IS RISEN (George Herbert)

Christ Has Arisen! Alleluia (using arrangements by Nancy Raabe and John Helgen)

AWAKE TO JOY (Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Hymn: Yours Be the Glory (CP #210) (using arrangement by Lee Dengler)
1. Yours be the glory, risen, conquering Son,
Endless is the victory over death you won;
Angels robed in splendour rolled the stone away,
Kept the folded graveclothes where your body lay.
Yours be the glory, risen, conquering Song.
Endless is the victory over death you won!

2. See! Jesus meet s us, risen from the tomb;
Lovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom.
Let the church with gladness hymns of triumph sing.
For her Lord is living: death has lost its sting!
Yours be the glory, risen, conquering Song.
Endless is the victory over death you won!

3. No more we doubt you, glorious Prince of Life,
What is life without you? Aid us in our strife.
Make us more than conquerors through your deathless love,
Bring us safe through Jordon to your home above.
Yours be the glory, risen, conquering Song.
Endless is the victory over death you won!