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An Easter Celebration

A seasonal celebration featuring Bach's Easter Oratorio, Fanny Mendelssohn's Easter Sonata, Haydn's Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross and Mascagni's Easter Hymn.

A seasonal celebration featuring Bach's Easter Oratorio, Fanny Mendelssohn's Easter Sonata, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture, Irving Berlin's Easter Parade, Haydn's Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross, Copland's setting of the Quaker Hymn - better know to us as Lord of the Dance and Mascagni's Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana.

Producer: Ian Wallington

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 5 Apr 2021 19:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Easter Oratorio, BWV 249)

    Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 24.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Easter Sonata (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Éric Heidsieck.
    • CASSIOPEE.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op 36

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Irving Berlin

    Easter Parade

    Singer: Sarah Vaughan. Singer: Billy Eckstine. Orchestra: Hal Mooney & His Orchestra.
    • Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine – Sing The Best Of Irving Berlin.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seven last words of our Saviour on the Cross H.20.1b (Sonata I, Largo)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Haydn: Die Sieben Letzten Worte.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 2.
  • Aaron Copland

    Variations on a Shaker Hymn (Appalachian Spring)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Warner.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana

    Singer: Helen Field. Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Famous Opera Choruses.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Mon 5 Apr 2021 19:00

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