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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

Contributors

Organist:
James Vivian
Singers:
BBC Singers
Conductor:
Stephen Layton
Tenor:
Neil MacKenzie
Author (Twenty Minutes:
Pilgrimage): Susan Sontag
Source: Radio Times

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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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