Music for Holy Week
How much music for Holy Week has been composed by women?
Here are some suggestions from Twitter:
Motets and Anthems
Cessate tympana, cessate praelia - Maria Xaveria Peruchona
Cantate Domino - Eleanor Haward
Crux Fidelis - Sarah MacDonald
Crux Fidelis - Kathryn Rose
Crucifixus - Olivia Sparkhall
Day of Days - Faustina Hasse Hodges
Easter Carol - Tamsin Jones
Easter Light - Cecilia McDowall
Forsake Me Not - Katharine Parton
I will extend my peace - Alice Rivers
Jacob’s dream - Emma Davies
Jesus, remember me - Esther Bersweden
Komm süßer Tod - Ethel Smyth
Kyrie (upper voices) - Rania Gold
Lamentations - Kerensa Briggs
Lost Son - Milly Atkinson
Miserere mei, Deus (upper voices) - Sarah MacDonald
Music for the Easter Season - Hildegard von Bingen
My Eternal King - Jane Marshall
O vos omnes - Sarah Rimkus
Omnes Amici Mei - Ghislaine Reece-Trapp
Parce Domine - Tamsin Jones
Paschal Hymn - Hanne Ørvad
A Renewal of Faith - Olivia Sparkhall
Sing unto the Lord - Elizabeth Poston
Stabat Mater - Sulpitia Cesis
Stabat Mater - Cecilia McDowall
There is a green hill - June Nixon
Threna - Hanne Ørvad
Ubi caritas (upper voices) - Roxanna Panufnik
Verbum supernum - Charlotte Baskerville
When I Survey - Esther Bersweden
Words from the cross - Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
Canticles and Masses
Mass for the Mystery of Faith - Ghislaine Reece-Trapp
Magnificat (double choir) - Eleanor Haward
Large Works
Sea Requiem - Susannah Self
Johannes Passion - Sofia Gubaidulina
Organ
He Arose: Fanfare for Easter (for organ and brass) - Libby Larsen
O Filli - Jeanne Demessieux
Other
14 Meditations on the Stations of the Cross for viola, piano and soundtrack - Marisa Cornford
Apologies for any omissions - send me piece and composer (and link if you have it) and I'll add it.
