Prologue 0. The Story I. Creation & Garden II. Fall III. Exile & Wasteland IV. Prophecy & Birth V. Call & Departure VI. The Journey & Trials VII. Initiation VIII. Marriage IX. Passion & Crucifixion X. Death & Descent to the Underworld XI. Resurrection & Atonement XII. Coronation & Kingdom Epilogue
Wagner: Parsifal
Possible Music to Draw On
Gregorian Chant and Early Medieval
- Schola Cantorum Basiliensis — various chant recordings
- Anonymous 4 — An English Ladymass, Miracles of Santiago
- Ensemble Organum — Chant de l'Église de Rome
- The Tallis Scholars — various chant collections
- Hildegard von Bingen — Canticles of Ecstasy (performed by Sequentia)
- Hildegard von Bingen — O Jerusalem (Sequentia)
- Hildegard von Bingen — Voice of the Blood (Sequentia)
Medieval Polyphony and Troubadour
- Perotin — Viderunt Omnes, Sederunt Principes
- Leonin — Magnus Liber Organi
- Guillaume de Machaut — Messe de Nostre Dame
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois — troubadour and trouvère songs
- Martin Codax — Galician-Portuguese cantigas
- Alfonso X — Cantigas de Santa Maria
- Oswald von Wolkenstein — medieval German songs
Renaissance Sacred Polyphony
- Palestrina — Missa Papae Marcelli, Stabat Mater
- Josquin des Prez — Ave Maria, Miserere mei Deus, De profundis
- Thomas Tallis — Spem in Alium, Lamentations of Jeremiah
- William Byrd — Mass for Five Voices, Ave Verum Corpus
- Orlando di Lasso — Penitential Psalms, Prophetiae Sibyllarum
- Tomás Luis de Victoria — O Magnum Mysterium, Tenebrae Responsories
- Carlo Gesualdo — Tenebrae Responsories — dark, chromatic, extraordinary
- Heinrich Isaac — Innsbruck ich muss dich lassen
Renaissance Lute and Instrumental
- John Dowland — Lachrimae, Flow My Tears, In Darkness Let Me Dwell
- Anthony Holborne — consort music
- Luis de Milán — El Maestro lute book
- Ensemble La Nef — medieval instrumental
- Jordi Savall — various viol and early music recordings
Baroque Sacred
- Bach — Mass in B Minor, St Matthew Passion, St John Passion
- Bach — Cello Suites (Yo-Yo Ma or Pablo Casals recordings)
- Bach — Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations
- Bach — Cantata BWV 82 Ich habe genug
- Handel — Messiah, Dixit Dominus, Saul
- Monteverdi — Vespers of 1610, L'Orfeo
- Henry Purcell — Dido and Aeneas, Come Ye Sons of Art
- Vivaldi — Gloria, Stabat Mater
- Charpentier — Te Deum, Messe de Minuit
Classical and Romantic — Sacred and Sublime
- Mozart — Requiem, Ave Verum Corpus, Mass in C Minor
- Beethoven — Missa Solemnis, String Quartet Op. 132
- Schubert — Mass in E flat, Ave Maria
- Brahms — Ein Deutsches Requiem
- Bruckner — Te Deum, Motets, his symphonies have a cathedral-like quality
- Verdi — Requiem
- Fauré — Requiem — perhaps the most gentle and beautiful of all requiems
- Mahler — Symphony No. 8 Symphony of a Thousand
20th Century Sacred and Contemplative
- Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel, Tabula Rasa, De Profundis, Passio
- John Tavener — Song for Athene, The Lamb, Ikon of Light
- Henryk Górecki — Symphony No. 3 Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
- Alfred Schnittke — Choir Concerto
- Giya Kancheli — Liturgy for viola and orchestra
- Sofia Gubaidulina — Offertorium, St John Passion