Maundy Thursday - Live with the BBC Singers

On Maundy Thursday, Penny Gore presents the afternoon from St Paul's, Knightsbridge in London, with the BBC Singers and conductor Andrew Griffiths performing a sequence of music for Holy Week. The live performance, specially curated for Afternoon Concert, includes settings of the Stabat Mater, William Byrd's evocative Tristitia et anxietas, and Lamentations from the award-winning composer Kerensa Briggs.

Plus music from around Europe including Schnittke in Prague, Mozart in Romania, and Augustin Hadelich playing Beethoven's "Spring" sonata.

Including:

Schnittke: Polyphonischer Tango
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marko Ivanovic (conductor)

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, op. 24 ('Spring')
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Adam Skoumal (piano)

2.30pm LIVE from St Paul's, Knightsbridge

Sister Sulpitia Cesis: Stabat Mater
John Sanders: The Reproaches
Felice Anerio: Stabat Mater a 12
Kerensa Briggs: Lamentations
William Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas
Aleksandra Chimielewska: Nunc scio vere
Kenneth Leighton: Drop, drop slow tears
Szymon Godziemba-Trytek: Miserere mei Deus
Lesya Dychko: Blessed be the name of the Lord

BBC Singers
Andrew Griffiths (conductor)

c.4pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major K.201
East-West Chamber Orchestra
Rostislav Krimer, conductor

James MacMillan: The World's Ransoming
Christine Pendrill (cor anglais)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)