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Music for Good Friday

Daniel Hyde, director of music at King's College Cambridge, conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra, live from Watford Colosseum. Presented by Martin Handley.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from Watford Colosseum. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra are joined by conductor Daniel Hyde, Director of Music at King's College Cambridge. There's choral music by Dobrinka Tabakova, Composer in Residence with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ CO, and Roderick Williams; and the orchestra play music by influential American composer Judith Lang Zaimont and Joseph Haydn. The climax of the concert is a recent orchestration of Vaughan Wiilliams's Dona nobis pacem, which uses texts from the Mass, the Bible and poems by Walt Whitman.

Judith Lang Zaimont Elegy for Strings
Dobrinka Tabakova Alma Redemptoris Mater
Roderick Williams O Saviour of the World
Haydn Symphony No.70 - 2nd mvt Andante
Vaughan Williams, orch Jonathan Rathbone Dona nobis pacem

Rebecca Lea (soprano)
Jamie W Hall (baritone)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra
Conductor Daniel Hyde

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 2 Apr 2021 19:30

Music Played

  • Judith Lang Zaimont

    Elegy for Strings

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Alma Redemptoris Mater

    Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
  • Roderick Williams

    O Saviour of the World

    Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony 70 2nd mvt Andante

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony 70 2nd mvt Andante

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Dona nobis pacem

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hyde. Choir: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Stabat mater

    Singer: Anna Netrebko. Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Singer: Lawrence Brownlee. Singer: Ildebrando d’Arcangelo. Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini, Stabat Mater: Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moments Musicaux No. 6 in A flat Major

    Performer: Ethel Leginska.
    • Ethel Leginska: The Complete Columbia Masters.
    • IVORY CLASSICS.
    • 010.

Broadcast

  • Fri 2 Apr 2021 19:30