“Come, hurry and run…” Life Resurrected

Easter Greetings, a blessing, and a farewell.

Lilies breaking through in our back yard yesterday.

Friends and fellow travelers,

With this Easter Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach we greet you one more time on our journey through this Holy Week with a heartfelt farewell, pictures from my viriditas backyard walk, words of gratitude, a blessing and a joyful recipe at the end :-)

Finally trumpets and timpani!

Bach’s Passion oratorio has led us tenderly through deep emotions of loss, failure, fear and grief, but on Easter Sunday trumpets and timpani get their say.

The Easter Oratoria “Kommt Eilet und Laufet / Come, hurry and run” starts with a Sinfonia (4 min), where those who know Bach will find some well known themes from his Christmas Oratorio resurfacing. But if you listen further, you will notice that Bach’s Easter joy is not all trumpet and timpani. Instead, motifs we know from the Passion revisit, reminding us that the Easter joy is not simple happiness, but a hard won calmness of heart, a joy despite our sorrows.

So feel free to l…