
Episode 1
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 makes its annual journey around the world to hear music to celebrate Holy Week. Featuring concerts from Spain and the Netherlands.
Radio 3 makes its annual journey around the European Broadcasting Union countries to celebrate music for Holy Week. This year begins with a concert from the historic Basilica in Montserrat, Spain, for choral and organ music from the 16th to the 18th centuries, along with a contemporary premiere by Bernat Vivancos. This is followed by a live performance from the Concertgebouw in Amserdam of Bach's mighty St. John Passion. Then on the other side of the world in Sydney, the old and the new are combined in a concert including Arvo Part's Berlin Mass. Belgium's contribution is a rare chance to hear Carl Heinrich Graun's Der Tod Jesu, before we join our own ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers in London for a concert of English Choral music, including a premiere by Francis Pott.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
12pm A concert of choral and organ music from the historic Montserrat Basilica in Spain.
Victoria: Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae - Responsoria ad Matutinum - extracts
Miquel López: Exercise on echos and counter-echos, for solo organ
Joan Cererols: Offertory: Missa pro defunctis, for seven-part chorus
NarcÃs Casanoves: Tradiderunt me
NarcÃs Casanoves:Judas mercator pessimus
Fernando Sor: O Crux
Bernat Vivancos: El davallament de la creu (The Descent from the Cross) - Premiere
Mercè SanchÃs, organ
Josep Borrà s, bassoon
Eudald Buch, second organist
Escolania de Montserrat and Chapel
Bernat Vivancos, conductor
1.15pm Live from the Concertgebouw in, Amsterdam; The Dutch contribution to the Day is a long-standing event in the Concertgebouw's calendar.
Bach: St John Passion, BWV.245
James Gilchrist, tenor, Evangelist
Thomas Bauer, bass, Christ
Henriette Bonde-Hansen, soprano
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
Werner Güra, tenor
Florian Boesch, bass
Netherlands Radio Choir
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor.
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- Sun 17 Apr 2011 12:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3