
Lenten Poetry: Maundy Thursday
Priest and poet Laura Darrall journeys through Lent in a week long series of Daily Service programmes exploring poetry from across the centuries.
Priest and poet Laura Darrall journeys through Lent in a week long series of Daily Service programmes exploring poetry from across the centuries. Each service opens with a poem by Laura herself, and the five services take up the themes of Ash Wednesday, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, including famous works by Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Herbert alongside newer writings by living poets including Malcolm Guite and Ally Barrett.
Reading:
John 13: 1-17, 31b-35
Poems:
Maundy Thursday - Laura Darrall
Love III - George Herbert
Holy Sonnet 10 - John Donne
Music:
Love Song (after JE) - Max Richter
CD: In a Landscape - Max Richter (Universal)
Ubi caritas - Ola Gjeilo
Voces8
CD: Lux - Voces8 (Decca)
Love bade me welcome (from 'Five Mystical Songs') - Ralph Vaughan WIlliams
Brian Rayner Cook, London Philharmonic Choir
CD: Vaughan Williams - Dona nobis pacem (Chandos)
Sospiri - Edward Elgar
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
CD: 111 Adagio! Classics for Relaxation (Deutsch Grammophon)