2015 [Music For Holy Week]

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01Concertgebouw, Amsterdam20150329Bach's St John Passion live from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, starring Michael Schade and Andrew Foster-Williams and conducted by Richard Egarr.

1.15pm - NETHERLANDS: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam - LIVE

BACH St John Passion

Evangelist - Michael Schade (tenor)

Christ - Andrew Foster-Williams (bass baritone)

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

Ann Hallenberg (contralto)

Benjamin Hulett (tenor)

Christopher Purves (bass)

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Richard Egarr (conductor)

Ian Skelly presents the European Broadcasting Union's annual day of music to mark Holy Week, with live and pre-recorded concerts from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Britain, Poland, the USA and Germany.

Ian Skelly presents Bach's St John Passion in a performance from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw

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

02Czech Republic, London, Poland, France, New York20150329We go live to the Great Hall in Plzen for a performance of Jan Jakub Ryba's Stabat Mater before heading back home for Gabriel Jackson's Passion, performed by the BBC Singers under David Hill. Then at 7.30 it's live to Warsaw for a programme of Passion music from 13th and 14th century Paris and Stary Sacz sources, performed by Ensemble Peregrina. As associate members of the EBU, this year the USA take part with highlights from a Bach programme given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

5pm - CZECH REPUBLIC: Great Hall, Clubhouse, Plzen - LIVE

Jan Jakub RYBA Stabat mater

Christina Johnston (soprano)

Jana Horakova Levicova (mezzo-soprano)

Jaroslav Brezina (tenor)

Roman Hoza (baritone)

Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno

Pilsen Philharmonic

Vojtech Spurny (conductor)

6.15 - UNITED KINGDOM: St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London

Gabriel JACKSON The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ

Emma Tring (soprano)

Edward Goater (tenor)

Endymion

David Hill (conductor)

7.30pm - POLAND: Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio, Polish Radio, Warsaw - LIVE

ANONYMOUS

Breves dies hominis - Rondellus (Paris, 13th century)

Christus factus est. V. Propter quod et Deus - Graduale

Quis tibi Christe meritas - Conductus (Paris, 13th century)

Filip KANCLERZ Homo, vide - Conductus (Paris, 13th century)

Benedicamus Domino (Stary Sacz, 13th century)

Manere/Manere - Motet (Stary Sacz, 13th century)

Serena virginum/Manere - Motet (Paris, 13th century)

O felix hec novitas - Sequence (Cracow, 13th century)

Stella naufragantium Benedicamus - Conductus (Stary Sacz,

Omnia beneficia - Conductus (Stary Sacz, 13th century)

Estampie [instrumental]

Ave nobilis - Conductus (Paris, 13th century)

Benedicamus Domino (, 13th century)

8.25pm - USA: Lincoln Center, New York.

BACH Cantata: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (1714)

Erin Morley (soprano)

Phyllis Pancella (mezzo-soprano)

John Tessier (tenor)

Eric Owens (bass-baritone)

Michael Beattie (harpischord/organ)

Yura Lee, Cho-Liang Lin (violins)

Beth Guterman, Mark Holloway (violas)

Fred Sherry (cello)

Timothy Cobb (double bass)

Stephen Taylor (oboe)

Peter Kolkay (bassoon)

Ethan Bensdorf (trumpet)

Ian Skelly presents the European Broadcasting Union's annual day of music to mark Holy Week, with live and pre-recorded concerts from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Britain, Poland, the USA and Germany.

Holy Week concerts from the Czech Republic, London, Poland, France and New York.

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

03Munich20150329Dvorak's Stabat Mater, performed in Munich by the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons.

11.10pm - GERMANY: Herkulessaal, Munich

DVORAK Stabat Mater

Erin Wall (soprano)

Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano)

Christian Elsner (tenor)

Liang Li (bass)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Ian Skelly presents the European Broadcasting Union's annual day of music to mark Holy Week, with live and pre-recorded concerts from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Britain, Poland, the USA and Germany.

Ian Skelly presents a performance of Dvorak's Stabat Mater given in Munich.

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