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Easter Music

Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland FM

Jamie marks Easter Sunday with Bach’s Magnificat, his musical telling of the story of Mary in the Bible, performed in a live recording by the BBC Singers with the BBC SSO and Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. Ahead of his appearance with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, we hear Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe in music from his acclaimed album Soft/Loud. Finnish violin superstar Pekka Kuusisto joins British tenor Allan Clayton and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Glasgow’s City Halls to perform Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten, plus an Easter classic, Handel’s famous Messiah in a recording from the Dunedin Consort that won Baroque Vocal album of year at the Grammophone Awards. Show less

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