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The first of seven programmes in which David Melling describes the music and ceremonies of Holy
Week as it is celebrated at the Greek Orthodox
Patriarchate in the ancient city of Constantinople. Russian envoys who witnessed the liturgy a thousand years ago were unsure whether they were "in heaven or on earth".
On Palm Sunday morning crosses are distributed as Christ's entry into Jerusalem is commemorated.
Paul Guinery presents a sequence of music with a hint of spring in the air.
7.25 Haydn Fantasia in C (H XVII 4)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
7.40 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor
Steven Isserlis (cello) Paul Coker (piano)
8.15 Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Welsh National Opera Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
8.30 Debussy La damoiselle élue
Elizabeth Laurence
(soprano)
BBC Singers
BBC SO/Lothar Zagrosek
8.55
Bruckner Christus factus est
Corydon Singers, conductor Matthew Best
Producer Gautam Rangarajan
Glazunov Spring, Op 34 Scottish National
Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi
9.15 Chaminade
Concertino
Susan Milan (flute)
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
9.24 Binchois Deuil angoisseux
Gothic Voices, director
Christopher Page
9.33 Chabrier Suite pastorale
Ulster Orchestra, conductor
Van Pascal Tortelier
9.53 Beethoven Rondo a Capriccio (Rage over a Lost Penny)
Moura Lympany (piano)
10.00 Milhaud, arr Stewart Scaramouche
Jean-Marie Londeix
(saxophone)
Roseau Quintet
10.09 Walton, arr Palmer As You Like It
Catherine Bott (soprano) Academy of St Martin/ Neville Marriner
10.27 Artist of the Week: Simon Rattle (conductor) Mahler Blumine City of Birmingham SO
10.35 Composer of the Week: Messiaen Joie et clarté
(Les Corps Glorieux) Louis Thiry (organ)
10.41 Bach Gloria (Mass in B minor) Soloists
Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra/Karl Richter
11.22 Britten Suite on English Folk- Tunes: A Time There Was
CBSO/Simon Rattle
11.43 Berwald Symphony No 3 in C (Sinfonie Singuliere)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi Producer Edward Blakeman
Discs
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor Grant Llewellyn Dong-Suk Kang (violin) Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
Glazunov Symphony No 5 in B flat
Messiaen's visionary
Quatuorpour le fin du temps, performed by York Piano Trio
James Campbell (clarinet)
from the Barbican
Hall, London.
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conductor Riccardo Chailly Mahler Symphony No 7
The second programme in which David Melling describes Holy Week at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Constantinople.
An icon of Christ, crowned with thorns, is carried in procession for the people to venerate.
Humphrey Carpenter rounds off a week in the arts and previews the week ahead. Producer Clare McGinn
Berlin Philharmonic Wind
Quintet
Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik , Op 24 No Nielsen
Wind Quintet, Op 43
Robin Lloyd Jones won the 1992 Radio Times Drama
Script Award with this original and remarkable script.
Aboard the good ship Argo, skippered by Captain
Jeremiah Jones Moses
Smith, is a former actor and gambling addict called Wall. His destination is the far northern town of Ophir, where darkness is perpetual and the sound of blasting from the gold mines punctuates the daily lives of the inhabitants.
Director Hamish Wilson
Ars Musica Festival
The BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly , perform music by Brian Femeyhough ,
Carver, Tallis and a new
BBC commission by James Dillon.
Introduced by Brian Wright. Daniel-Lesur Cantique de Cantiques; Messe du Jubile
BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Stephen Jackson Jeremy Filsel (organ) Messiaen La
Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ Moray Welsh (cello) Paul Crossley (piano) Jeanne Loriod (ondes Martenot)
BBC Singers. Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor David Atherton
Producer Lindsay Kemp
