A new Tapestry unfurls for Easter

Posted on Apr 4, 2020

The Easter season brings a new edition of Tapestry, DZFE’s semiannual masterpiece series! DZFE’s Tiffany highlights two beautiful discs featuring Ensemble InAlto, the Belgium-based period ensemble — a program of penitential music from the Chiesa Nuovo in Rome at the turn of the 17th century, and one of music by Heinrich Schütz and his circle — together with more from an interview with InAlto members at the International Bamboo Organ Festival earlier this year. Continuing the focus on Schütz, Tapestry also presents his Resurrection Story.

Listeners can also look forward to Handel’s Israel in Egypt — one of only two oratorios by Handel with a libretto comprising passages from Scripture, the other being Messiah. As was the case for Messiah, the libretto for Israel in Egypt may have also been compiled by Charles Jennens.

This Tapestry would not be complete without a work by Beethoven in his 250th Anniversary year. The early and surprisingly intimate Mass in C is also on the roster.

A new episode of our EASTER TAPESTRY airs weekly (Wed 1300, further airing Sat 1900) starting April 8.

Don’t forget to join us also for our RESURRECTION PROGRAM presented by DZFE’s David (12 April, Sun, 1230) — this year a grassroots celebration of hymns, hymn arrangements, and Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 3 (The Camp Meeting).

A blessed Easter season to us all!

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”

1 Corinthians 15:56-68