Sometimes, silence is best. But if music will help you settle into Good Friday and Holy Saturday, here are my recommendations (all but one are available on iTunes).
MODERN MUSIC
Jesus Paid it All / Artist: Fernando Ortega / Album: Storm
Waltz of the Sorrowful Mysteries / Artist: L’Angelus / Album: Ca C’est Bon!
Give and Take / Artist: Danielle Rose / Album: Defining Beauty
Agony in the Garden & Holiness is Faithfulness / Artist: Danielle Rose / Album: Mysteries
Communion / Artist: Third Day / Album: Wherever You Are
Bhasobha / Artist: Ladysmith Black Mambazo / Album: Journey of Dreams
For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti / Artist: Sufjan Stevens / Album: Greetings from Michigan
To You Be the Glory / Artist: Matt Maher & Kari Jobe / Album: Glory Revealed II
King Without a Crown / Artist: Matisyahu / Album: Youth
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Requiem: No.4 Sequence: Rex Tremendae / Artist: Mozart / Album: Sir Colin Davis, The London Symphony Chorus and The London Symphony Orchestra
Adagio for Strings / Artist: Samuel Barber / Album: The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II Allegretto / Artist: Beethoven / Album: Beethoven: The Complete Symphony Collection, London Symphony Orchestra
Prelude No.4 in E Minor, Opus 28/4 / Artist: Chopin / Album: Chopin Nocturne, Impromptu, Gallade, Prelude, Waltz, Barcarolle, Fantaisie, Musically Speaking
Pange Lingua & Christus Factus Est / Artist: Polyphony & Stephen Layton / Album: Bruckner: Mass & Motets
Requiem: IV. Pie Jesu / Artist: Faure / Album: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & The Sixteen
It is Done & Crucifixion / Artist: John Debney / Album: The Passion of the Christ
SACRED/TRADITIONAL MUSIC
O Vos Omnes / Artist: Robert Shaw / Album: A Capella
Improperia II / Artist: Alessio Randon and Aurora Surgit / Album: Paschale Mysterium
Jesus, Remember Me / Artist: Taize / Album: Laudate Omnes Gentes
Deus Meus, Adiuva Me / Artist: University of Notre Dame Folk Choir / Album: Songs of Saints & Scholars
Crux Fideles / Artist: University of Notre Dame Folk Choir / Album: Prophets of Joy
Stabat Mater / Artist: Choir of Benedictine Nuns of the Abbey of Regina Laudis / Album:Women in Chant
Meditation: Recordare II / Artist: The Choir of Benedictine Nuns of the Abbey of Regina Laudis / Album: Women in Chant – Recordare
Dixit Isaac Patri Suo / Artist: Livljanic Katarina / Album: Terra Adriatica
Great Doxology (Veliko Slavoslovie) / Artist: Tchaikovsky / Album: Good Friday
ENTIRE ALBUMS
Triduum Sacrum / Monaci Cistercensi dell’Abazia di Casamari & Padre Ildebrando di Falvio
Good Friday / Mixed Bulgarian Choir
Readers, please leave your own Triduum music recommendations in the ‘comments’ section!
