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HOLY WEEK AND ITS MUSIC

on BBC Home Service Basic

Father Wilfrid Purney shows how the music of the Holy Week ceremonies leads us each year through the story of the Sufferings, Death, and Resurrection of Our Lord
PALM SUNDAY
Christus vincit (Plainsong)
Pueri Hebraeorum (Plainsong and Victoria)
MAUNDY THURSDAY
Christus factus est (Anerio) Ubi caritas (Plainsong)
Pange Lingua (Plainsong and Polyphony)
Judas Mercator (Victoria)
GOOD FRIDAY
Passion according to St. John
(Byrd)
Ecce Lignum Crucis (Plainsong) The Reproaches (Palestrina)
Crux Fidelis (King John of Portugal)
Tenebrae factae sunt (Victoria)
EASTER VIGIL
Lumen Christi (Plainsong) Exultet (Plainsong)
Sicut cervus (Palestrina) Alleluia (Plainsong)
Haec Dies (Palestrina)
Choir of the Carmelite Church Kensington
Director, John McCarthy

Contributors

Unknown:
Father Wilfrid Purney
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Pueri Hebraeorum
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Crux Fidelis
Director:
John McCarthy

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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