Going for something from the opposite end of the aesthetic spectrum today. No major festival can be allowed to pass without a bit of Bach in our house and while Bach wrote a whole Easter Oratorio, which is great, this piece is the first thing we play on Easter Day, usually before we’ve even got out of bed.

It’s taken from Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and is the bit of the Creed on Christ’s resurrection. To be honest, the recording we have (the Balthasar Neumann edition) has a little more energy in my opinion than the one below, but I can’t find it on YouTube. I love the brass and the exuberance and, though we don’t listen to it on Easter Day, the combination with the preceding Crucifixus is best one-two punch I know about in choral music. Enjoy!