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The European Broadcasting Union's annual day of Holy Week music

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Music for Holy Week: EBU Day of Holy Week Music 2011: Episode 1

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EBU Day of Holy Week Music 2011

BBC Radio 3 - Music for Holy Week, EBU Day of Holy Week Music 2011, Episode 1

Radio 3 makes its annual journey around the world to hear music to celebrate Holy Week.

BBC Radio 3 makes its annual journey around the world to hear music to celebrate Holy Week. Featuring concerts from Spain and the Netherlands.

Radio 3 makes its annual journey around the European Broadcasting Union countries to celebrate music for Holy Week. This year begins with a concert from the historic Basilica in Montserrat, Spain, for choral and organ music from the 16th to the 18th centuries, along with a contemporary premiere by Bernat Vivancos. This is followed by a live performance from the Concertgebouw in Amserdam of Bach's mighty St. John Passion. Then on the other side of the world in Sydney, the old and the new are combined in a concert including Arvo Part's Berlin Mass. Belgium's contribution is a rare chance to hear Carl Heinrich Graun's Der Tod Jesu, before we join our own BBC Singers in London for a concert of English Choral music, including a premiere by Francis Pott.

Presented by Louise Fryer. 

12pm A concert of choral and organ music from the historic Montserrat Basilica in Spain.

Victoria: Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae - Responsoria ad Matutinum - extracts
Miquel López: Exercise on echos and counter-echos, for solo organ
Joan Cererols: Offertory: Missa pro defunctis, for seven-part chorus
Narcís Casanoves: Tradiderunt me
Narcís Casanoves:Judas mercator pessimus 
Fernando Sor: O Crux
Bernat Vivancos: El davallament de la creu (The Descent from the Cross) - Premiere

Mercè Sanchís, organ 
Josep Borràs, bassoon 
Eudald Buch, second organist 
Escolania de Montserrat and Chapel 
Bernat Vivancos, conductor

1.15pm Live from the Concertgebouw in, Amsterdam; The Dutch contribution to the Day is a long-standing event in the Concertgebouw's calendar. 

Bach: St John Passion, BWV.245

James Gilchrist, tenor, Evangelist 
Thomas Bauer, bass, Christ 
Henriette Bonde-Hansen, soprano 
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano 
Werner Güra, tenor 
Florian Boesch, bass 
Netherlands Radio Choir 
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 
Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor.

Music for Holy Week: EBU Day of Holy Week Music 2011

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