Throughout today, as part of the network's celebration of the centenary of WH Auden, Radio 3 broadcasts Horae Canonicae , his sequence of poems contemplating Good Friday through the seven offices of the monastic day. Each piece is introduced, at approximately its proper hour, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams , and is read by Tom Durham. WH Auden's Lauds from Horae Canonicae Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Locatelli Introduttione 1 (Sei Introduttione Teatrali) Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, director Thomas Hengelbrock
Smetana Two Czech Dances Jan Novotny (piano) Heino Eller Lyrical Suite Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conductor Tonu Kaljuste
8.30-10.00: Liszt Grand Galop Chromatique Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)
WH Auden's Prime from Horae Canonicae
Bach Variation XXV (Goldberg Variations, BWV988) Julian Rachlin (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello)
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No I in G minor
Andras Schiff (piano), South West German RSO, conductor Charles Dutoit

Presented by Sarah Walker.
Dvorak In Nature's Realm Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karel Ancerl
10.15 WH Auden's Terce from Horae Canonicae i 10.19 Haydn Frau , hier siehe deinen Sohn (Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlöses am Kreuze) Inga Nielsen and Renate Burtscher (sopranos), Margareta Hintermeier (mezzo), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor), Robert Holl (bass),
Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Concentus Musicus Vienna, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10.28 Brahms Cello Sonata No I in E minor, Op 38 Truls Mork, Helene Grimaud (piano)
10.57 Kerici Serenade for Orchestra Czech
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karel Ancerl
11.16 Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: Russian
Easter Festival Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Igor Markevitch
11.31 Sor 0 Crux Coro Cervantes , conductor Carlos Fernandez Aransay
Haydn In Thy Hand Father (The Seven Last Words of Our Redeemer on the Cross) The Lindsays
11.49 WH Auden's Sext from Horae Canonicae

5/5. Donald Macleod surveys the final months of Bach's first year in Leipzig, including a major project for Good Friday 1724.
Ach, mein Sinn (StJohn Passion, BWV245) Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Bach Collegium Japan, director Masaaki Suzuki
Cantata No 12: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen William Towers (countertenor),
Mark Padmore (tenor), Julian Clarkson (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Cantata No 86: Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Bernhard Landauer (countertenor), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra and Choir, conductor Ton Koopman
Cantata No 165: 0 heilges Geist- und Wasserbad Carolina Stamm (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Paul Agnew (tenor),
Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman Rptd 8.45pm

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
This week's last New Generation Artist recital.
EduardKunz (piano)
Bach, arr Ziloti Prelude in B minor (BWV869) (Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1)
Bach Partita No I in B flat, BWV825 Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Liszt Nocturne No 4 in E flat
2.00 Music and Words for Good Friday Introduced by Louise Fryer.
MacMillan The World's Ransoming
James Horan (cor anglais), BBC Scottish SO, conductor Christoph Konig
Bach St John Passion, BWV245, Part 1
Susan Gritton (soprano), Michael Chance
(countertenor), Mark Padmore and Toby Spence (tenors), Thomas Ouasthoff (baritone), RIAS Chamber Choir, director Daniel Reuss , Berlin PO, conductor Simon Rattle
3.00 WH Auden's Nones from Horae Canonicae Bach St John Passion, BWV245, Part 2

Sean Rafferty presents music and arts news.
7.00 WH Auden's Vespers from Horae Canonicae

Live from the Chapel of King's College,
Cambridge, including the world premiere of a new work by Michael Zev Gordon.
Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Choir of King's
College, Cambridge, director Stephen Cleobury , Hilliard Ensemble , director David James
Michael Zev Gordon This Night (first performance) Arvo Part St John Passion

Repeated from 12 noon

This week a specially commissioned piece to celebrate The Verb's fifth birthday. And for Good Friday, an exclusive interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. Introduced by Ian McMillan. Producer AasiyaLodhi
10.25 WH Auden's Compline from Horae Canonicae

Alyn Shipton and Jacqui Dankworth explore the legacy of the great jazz diva Sarah Vaughan, including sessions with pianist Jimmy Jones, with trumpeters Clifford Brown and Miles Davis, and with bandleaders Quincy Jones, Ernie Wilkins and Lalo Schifrin.

Jez Nelson presents two sessions showcasing drummer Eddie Prevost. The first of two trio sessions - recorded on the same day at London's Phoenix Studios earlier this year - features pianist John Tilbury and tenor saxophonist John Butcher. And in the second, Prevost is joined by Alan Wilkinson on alto sax, with Joe Williamson on bass. Producer Robert Abel

Presented by John Shea. Verdi 7e Oeum Haydn The Seven Last Words 2.11 Vivaldi Concerto in C for two guitars
2.25 Faure Nocturnes: No 8 in D flat, Op 84 No 8; in B minor, Op 97 2.33 Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor
3.29 Weise Two Songs (Det Danske Syngende Nymphe-Chor) 3.34 Schumann Piano Trio No 2 in F, Op 80
4.00 Bach Concerto in C minor for violin and harpsichord, BWVI060 4.14 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 14.31 Tournier images, Op 35 4.42 Debussy L'lsle Joyeuse 4.47 Goldmark Overture: In Italien 5.00 Haydn Overture: Lo Speziale
5.07 Bach Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor, BWV1041
5.18 Picchi Ballo alia Polacca: Ballon Ongaro: Ballo ditto il Pichi 5.24 Larsson Pastoral Suite 5.38 Wieniawski Legende , Op 17 5.47 Dvorak Legend in C, Op 59 No 4
5.53 Telemann Concerto in D 6.06 Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: Svetliy Prazdnik 6.22 Mokranjac Prva Statija (First Stasis) 6.34 Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No I