5 on Friday -- Set 252

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

By this time next week, we'll be kicking the wrapping paper out of the way and cozying in to enjoy Boxing Day.

So for my final Christmas set of 2014, here are five of my favorite sacred pieces. Wishing you all a very happy and blessed Christmas.

1 - O Come, O Come Emmanuel  --  composer unknown, first documented in a French work dating from the 1400s -- performed by the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers     

2 - O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion -- composed by George Frideric Handel -- performed by Tafelmusik 

3 - Domine Deus  --  composed by Antonio Vivaldi -- performed by Nadine Nassar 

   

4 - Panis Angelicus  -- composed by Cesar Franck -- performed by Elina Garanca 

5 - Wolcum Yole!  --  composed by Benjamin Britten -- performed by Christ Church Cathedral Choir 

5 on Friday - Set 164

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

On this Easter weekend, I'm sharing some pieces of sacred music appropriate for the celebratory mass on Easter Sunday.

For those who don't celebrate this holiday or who take a more Universalist approach to life, these pieces are so filled with rejoicing in renewal and rediscovery, they speak to those emotions without any need for religious connotation. 

1 - Gloria - composed by Antonio Vivaldi - New Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus  - conducted by Riccardo Mutti

One of my favorite choral pieces ever. So lucky to have sung this with my former choir and an orchestra.

2 - Sanctus - Unknown choral group 

The music ends at the 1:38 mark

3 - Te Deum - composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully

4 -Benedictus - composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Orchestra dei Ducati, conducted by Fausto Pedretti

5 - Agnus Dei, also known as Adagio - composed by Samuel Barber - Dresdner Kreuzchor, directed by Roderich Kreile