2018 [Music For Holy Week]

2pm - Prinzregenthentheater, Munich

Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater for ten voices

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Requiem for 12-voice a cappella chorus

Bjorn Colell (theorbo)

Günter Holzhausen (violone)

Max Hanft (organ)

Florian Helgath (conductor)

Photo from concert (c) Alexander Heinzel, March 2018.

Andrew McGregor introduces the first part of the annual day of music for Holy Week.

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

4pm - Trinity Church, Copenhagen

A masterpiece of late 15th Century polyphony from the Eton Choirbook by Richard Davy, performed by Ars Nova Copenhagen under Paul Hillier

Richard Davy: St Matthew Passion

Ann-Christin Wesser Ingels (soprano)

Hanna Kappelin (soprano)

Elenor Wiman (alto)

Laura Lamph (alto)

Hanne Marie le Fevre (alto)

Jakob Skjoldborg (tenor)

Lu퀀s Toscano (tenor)

Adam Riis (tenor)

Asger Lynge Petersen (bass)

Jakob Soelberg (bass)

Ben McKee (bass)

Paul Hillier (conductor)

5pm - Imperial Hall, Lobkowitz Palace, Prague Castle, Prague

Baritone Tom  Krကl and Collegium Marianum perform a sequence of works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier:

Premi耀re le瀀on du mercredi ('Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae') H. 120, for bass, from 'Three Tenebrae Lessons

Symphonie in G minor, H. 529, for three flutes or violins

Premi耀re le瀀on du jeudi ('De lamentatione Jeremiae') H. 121, for bass, from 'Three Tenebrae Lessons

Tenebrae factae sunt, H. 129, from 'Nine Tenebrae Responsories

Ouverture pour l'退glise, H. 524

Troisi耀me le瀀on du vendredi ('Incipit oratio Jeremiae'), H. 125, for bass, from 'Three Tenebrae Lessons

Tom  Krကl (baritone)

Jana Semerကdovက (director)

6pm - Philharmonie, Berlin

Alice Coote and Mariusz Kwiecie? are soloists in a performance of Durufl退's Requiem with the Berlin Radio Chorus conducted by Robin Ticciati

Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Parsifal

Durufl退: Requiem, op. 9, for soloists, chorus and orchestra

Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)

Mariusz Kwiecie? (baritone)

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Robin Ticciati (conductor)

7pm - Guildford Cathedral - LIVE

The BBC Singers perform Stainer's oratorio The Crucifixion, live from Guildford Cathedral; a venue for which conductor Barry Rose founded the cathedral choir back in 1961.

Stainer: The Crucifixion

Peter Auty (tenor)

Jeremy Carpenter (bass)

Guildford Cathedral Choir

Malcolm Archer (organ)

Barry Rose (conductor)

8.30pm - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Ton Koopman conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the combined voices of the Netherlands Chamber Chorus, Amsterdam Baroque Chorus and Netherlands National Children's Choir in Bach's mighty St Matthew Passion.

Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV.244

Evangelist - Tilman Lichdi (tenor)

Christ .....Manuel Walser (baritone)

Christine Landshamer (soprano)

Ann Hallenberg (contralto)

Mauro Peter (tenor)

Klaus Mertens (bass)

Ton Koopman (conductor)

12.00am - Saint Sofia Church, Sofia

Highlights of a concert featuring Orthodox chants for Palm Sunday and Easter performed by the Sofia Priests' Choir conducted by Kirill Popov

Anon: Troparion for the Annunciation (Mode 4)

Anon: Troparion for the feast of the Lord's entry into Jerusalem (Mode 1) (Chant from the town of Elena)

Anon: Ne otrvrati (Do Not Turn Away), Great Prokeimenon (Mode 8)

Ivan Kaikov: Dushe moya (O, My soul), Kontakion from the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete (Mode 2)

Anon: Gospodi sil (O, Lord of Hosts), Eastern chant (Mode 8)

Anon: By the Rivers of Babylon, Polyeleion (Mode 3), after Psalm 137

Anon: Vzbrannoy voevode (Queen of the Heavenly Host), Papadic chant (Mode 8)

Kiril Popov (conductor)

Photo of Sofia Priests' Choir at Saint Sofia Church (c) Martin Mitov, March 2018.

Andrew McGregor continues the annual day of music for Holy Week.

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