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Today's programme, appropriately for Palm Sunday, consists of one extended work: the Seven Last Words from the Cross, Op 51, by Haydn in the version for string quartet. The performers are the AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET, and the music is interspersed with devotional texts, including poems by Donne, Herrick and Edith Sitwell , read by SIR PETER PEARS: record

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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