New and old music for the Easter season performed in the splendid setting of Canterbury Cathedral earlier this month as part of the 2001 Sounds New Festival.
James Vivian (organ), BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Layton
Goffredo Petrassi Motets of the Passion: Tristis Est Anima Mea: Improperium Expectavit; Tenebrae Factae Sunt; Christus Factus Est
Gesualdo Tenebrae Factae Sunt
Kenneth Leighton Crucifixus pro Nobis - Neil MacKenzie (tenor)
8.15 Twenty Minutes: Pilgrimage
Susan Sontag 's account of her teenage visit to Thomas Mann in 1947, soon after her enraptured reading of his masterpiece The Magic Mountain, an adaptation of which is next week's Sunday Play.
8.35 Lydia Martin Easter Anthems (first performance)
Buxtehude Mit Fried und Freud
Poul Ruders Psalm 86: Herr, Neyge Deine Ohrer
James MacMillan Cantos Sagrados