Victimae Paschali Laudes

"Victimae Paschali Laudes" by Nancy Wertsch is for SATB double choir, organ, and brass quintet. At nine minutes in length, it is a magnificent Easter Day anthem, the text set in both Latin and in English. Conceived for Choir I with organ, and antiphonal Choir II with brass, it can work in with instruments and choruses arranged antiphonally or all together. It begins with simple a cappella chant, as if a procession approaching from the distance, proceeding with the two choirs, brass, and organ each having individual moments, then in combination, until all arrive and combine together in a glorious hymn of praise, then gradually fading away as the procession recedes in the distance.