Kevin Mitchell: The Blue Tar Road (3mins 46secs) Album: I Sang That Sweet Refrain Greentrax CDTRAX108
:: Track 2
Carlo Gesualdo: O Vos Omnes (3mins 02secs) Album: Tallis Scholars Tenebrae Responses for Holy Saturday Gimmell CDGIM015
:: Track 3
June Tabor: The Easter Tree (2mins 34secs) Album: Ashes and Diamonds Topic TSCD360
BACKGROUND
Three very different looks at Holy Week/Easter. First track is an Irish travellers song, complaining of hypocrisy of those "christians" who eject him from their land when Jesus was a traveller himself. Second track is from music for Holy Week by Gesualdo and has great and rather odd harmonies. Finally June Tabor's version of Dave Goulder's song the Easter Tree is a chilling tale of murder.
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