Words and Music

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: Easter

Easter

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Easter

From Easter flowers to Passover meals and midnight church services.

Readings from Tolstoy, Richard Yates,  Jane Austen, TS Eliot and Christina Rossetti, and music by Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Judy Garland depicting spring, Passover and Easter.

Music and readings on the theme of Eastertide, Spring and the Passover including prose by Tolstoy, Richard Yates and Jane Austen, poetry by TS Eliot and Christina Rossetti, and music by Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Judy Garland.  The readers are Samantha Bond, Henry Goodman, Emily Bruni, Sam West, Molly Hanson and Robert Lindsay.

Producer: Nick Holmes

Readings include:

TS Eliot - East Coker 
Marge Piercy - The Seder's Order 
Michael Chabon - Wonder Boys 
Denise Levertov - The Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus
Oscar Wilde - Easter Day 
Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection 
Charles Dickens - Pictures from Italy 
Eleanor Farjeon - Upon Easter Morning 
WB Yeats - Easter 1916
Thomas Hardy - I watched a Blackbird
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice 
Effie Waller Smith - Easter Lilies
Claude McKay - The Easter Flower Poem
Richard Yates - The Easter Parade 
Helen Wallen - An Easter Poem for Crap Mummies

Music includes: 
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883): Parsifal - opera in three acts 
Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Stabat mater for soprano, chorus and orchestra
Nicolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908): Russian Easter festival [Svetliy prazdnik] - overture Op.36
James MacMillan (1959): Stabat mater for chorus and orchestra
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883): Good Friday music [from 'Parsifal'] - concert version [no voices]
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847): Sonata in A major (Easter Sonata) for piano
Carlo Gesualdo (c1561 - 1613): Tenebrae responses for Good Friday for 6 voices
Charles Wood (1866 - 1926): This joyful Eastertide - trad. Dutch carol, arr. for chorus
Muriel Herbert (1897 - 1984): Loveliest of trees for voice and piano
George Butterworth (1885 - 1916): 6 Songs from 'A Shropshire lad' for voice and piano
Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652): Miserere mei Deus [Psalm 51] for 9 voices 
Lennon/Mccartney: Blackbird
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907): 6 Norwegian mountain tunes for piano
E J Moeran (1894 - 1950): Songs of springtime for chorus
Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911): Symphony no. 2 in C minor (Resurrection) for soprano, alto, chorus and orchestra
Judith Bingham (1952): Missa brevis for chorus and organ 
Easter Parade  Judy Garland and Fred Astaire composed by Irving Berlin

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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