New series
The first of seven programmes for Holy Week in which Harry
Christophers conducts soloists from the Sixteen and principals from the Symphony of Harmony and Invention in seven cantatas entitled Membra
Jesu Nostri by Dietrich Buxtehude. Each programme begins with a reading by Alan Howard of a Metaphysical poem. Tonight he reads Ben Jonson 's A Hymne to God the Father, and the Buxtehude cantata is entitled Ad Pedes.
Producer John Bickley
Next programme tomorrow 3.00pm