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Dr Rowan Williams introduces Auden's Horae Canonicae as part of Easter programming on Radio 3


The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev and Rt Hon Rowan Williams, introduces each part of W.H. Auden's Horae Canonicae, broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 3 on Good Friday.

While far from being a direct account of the hours before Christ's death, the poem is Auden's personal reflection on the events and significance of Good Friday.

This is part of seasonal programming across the station throughout the week which also includes highlights from King's College Chapel's festival of services and concerts for Holy Week and Easter and Sir Simon Rattle directing the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Bach's St John Passion.

Horae Canonicae comprises seven poems, each corresponding to one of the offices of the monastic day, and each will be broadcast around these points during Good Friday (6 April 2007) on Radio 3.

Dr Williams will introduce each poem which is subsequently read by the actor Tom Durham.

This concludes the station's celebration of the Auden centenary, broadcasting the work in which his faith finds its most mature expression.

Dr Williams also talks about Auden's poem and his response to it as a practising poet himself in an interview featured on The Verb (6 April, 9.45pm).

Dr Williams says: "Auden always judges me as a poet. He makes me feel lazy becaase of the sheer attention and complexity at work in the wording of this poem [Horae Canonicae], it is immensely impressive...

"You don't notice until you look hard just how much precision there is, so, simply on a technical level, this sequence is one of the most accomplished and most interesting."

Easter concerts from King's College Chapel are broadcast on the Radio 3 beginning on Good Friday with a live broadcast of Arvo P盲rt's setting of the St John Passion performed by the Hillard Ensemble and King's College Choir which depicts the last hours of Christ's life.

This work is coupled with the world premiere of British composer Michael Zev Gordon's work for choir and solo cello This Night.

Choral Evensong on Easter Day (Sunday 8 April) is broadcast live from King's College Chapel at 4pm.

Easter Monday includes an organ recital from King's in which David Goode performs Liszt's magnificent treatment of the Crucifixus theme from Bach's Mass in B minor, and Michael Williamson's major organ fantasy Vision of Christ-Phoenix which celebrates Easter alongside further seasonal works.

Elgar's oratorio The Light Of Life performed by the Philharmonia Chorus and 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra is broadcast in Performance On 3.

Other seasonal programming on Radio 3 includes Catherine Bott hosting a round-table discussion with tenor Roger Covey-Crump, renowned for his role as the Evangelist, counter-tenor Michael Chance and soprano Mhairi Lawson in which the conversation focuses upon various issues in the performance of the Passions (Early Music Show, 31 March).

Michael Chance can be heard later in the week in Bach's St John Passion alongside soloists Susan Gritton, Mark Padmore, Toby Spence and Thomas Quasthoff with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra broadcast in Afternoon On 3 (Good Friday, 2-5pm).

James MacMillan and the Britten Sinfonia perform music for Holy Week by the 16th-century composer Victoria and his own Seven Last Words From The Cross (Performance On 3, Wednesday 4 April).

Programme Information

Saturday 31 March

The Early Music Show, 1.00pm

Catherine Bott hosts a round-table discussion with tenor Rogers Covey-Crump, renowned for his role as the Evangelist; counter-tenor Michael Chance; and soprano Mhairi Lawson. They discuss various issues in the performance of the St Matthew and St John Passions of J.S. Bach.

Wednesday 4 April

Performance On 3, 7.00pm

Britten - Prelude and Fugue for 18-part strings

Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday, second nocturne: Tamquam ad latronem, Tenebrae factae sunt, Animam meam dilectam

Britten - Hymn to the Virgin

Tippett - Dance, Clarion Air

Tippett - Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli

MacMillan - The Seven Last Words from the Cross

Britten Sinfonia

大象传媒 Singers

Magnus Johnston (violin)

Jacqueline Shave (violin)

Caroline Dearnley (cello)

James MacMillan (conductor)

Thursday 5 April

Afternoon On 3, 2.00pm

Wagner: Parsifal: Prelude and Good Friday Music

大象传媒 Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Good Friday, 6 April

Horae Canonicae

The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev and Rt Hon Rowan Williams, introduces each part of Horae Canonicae, W.H. Auden's great poem that contemplates Good Friday through the seven offices of the monastic day. Each part is interspersed throughout the day's schedule at the corresponding point.

Afternoon On 3, 2.00pm

The afternoon programme includes:

James MacMillan - The World's Ransoming for cor anglais and orchestra

大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

James Horan (cor anglais)

Christoph K枚nig (conductor)

J.S. Bach - St John Passion, BWV 245

Susan Gritton (soprano)

Michael Chance (altus)

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Toby Spence (tenor)

Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)

RIAS Chamber Choir

Director: Daniel Reuss

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle

Performance On 3, 7.00pm

Michael Zev Gordon - This Night

Arvo P盲rt - St John Passion

Anton Lukoszevieze (cello)

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

The Choir of King's College/ The Hilliard Ensemble, David James (director)

The Verb, 9.45pm

The Good Friday edition of The Verb includes an interview with Rowan Williams in which he talks about Auden's Horae Canonicae, and responds to it as a practising poet himself.

Easter Sunday, 8 April

Choral Evensong, 4.00pm

Broadcast live from King's College Chapel

Festal Evensong includes:

Joubert - Magnificat and Nunc dimittis

S.S. Wesley - Anthem 266 Blessed be the God and Father

Elgar - Te Deum

Monday 9 April

Afternoon on 3, 2.00-5.00pm

Includes organ recital by David Goode

Liszt - Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen

Buxtehude - Jesus Christus, unser Heiland BUXWV 198

Tunder - Partita Jesus Christus unser Heiland

Williamson - Vision of Christ-Phoenix (1961)

Widor - Symphonie Romane Op 73 (Choral)

Tournemire (trans.Durufl猫) - Choral-Improvisation on Victimae-Paschali

Performance on 3, 7.00-8.45pm

Elgar - Sursum Corda

Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs

Elgar - The Light of Life

Majella Cullagh (soprano)

Louise Crane (mezzo soprano)

Justin Lavender (tenor)

Russell Smythe (bass)

大象传媒 Concert Orchestra/ Philharmonia Chorus

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

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Category: Radio 3
Date: 15.03.2007
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