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Music for Good Friday by Wagner, Poulenc and Duruflé from the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Bach Choir, conducted by David Hill, live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

David Hill conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Bach Choir, live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, in music for Good Friday by Wagner and Poulenc. The main work is Duruflé's 1947 Requiem, which draws on Gregorian plainchant, something he was very familiar with after his early musical training at the cathedral in Rouen.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Poulenc: Four Lenten Motets
Duruflé: Requiem

Katherine Gregory (mezzo-soprano)
Gareth Brynmor John (baritone)
The Bach Choir
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor David Hill

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2 hours, 14 minutes

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal - Opera In 3 Acts ; Act 3; Du Wuschest Mir Die Fusse (Good Friday Music)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill. Choir: Bach Choir..
  • Francis Poulenc

    4 Motets Pour Un Temps De Penitence

    Choir: Bach Choir.. Conductor: David Hill.
  • Maurice Duruflé

    Requiem Op.9

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill. Choir: Bach Choir..
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No 1 in F major, Op 18 No 1

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Beethoven: Inventions 1.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

    Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Singer: Peter Pears. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.
  • Franz Schubert

    Licht und Liebe, D.352

    Performer: Dalton Baldwin. Singer: Elly Ameling. Singer: Peter Pears.
    • Essential Classics: Lieder.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 23.

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