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Easter: A seasonal journey. Tom Service live from the island of Iona

Tom travels to Iona for a special broadcast on Holy Saturday, with music from pianist David McGuinness, soprano Mhairi Lawson, fiddler Hannah Fisher and guitarist Sorren Maclean.

For Holy Saturday, Tom Service takes a seasonal journey to the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides, reflecting the unique atmosphere and sounds of the island and telling the story of its history, its spiritual life and its folk life. Tom and guests will broadcast live from Iona Village Hall, a vantage point overlooking the eastern coastline of the island and across to Mull, just a few metres from the water and from Iona Abbey - the Benedictine abbey standing on the site of the monastery founded by St Columba. As part of the programme, Tom will hike to the beach where St Columba and his fellow monks landed on the island in 563, he'll take a walk around the abbey to discover more about the work of the Iona Community, and there'll be live music from historical Scottish music specialist David McGuinness with soprano Mhairi Lawson, and fiddler Hannah Fisher with guitarist Sorren Maclean.

Plus the continuation of 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, master of the King鈥檚 Music Errollyn Wallen takes us back to the London Olympics and Paralympics in Remembering 2012 written for Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Chaos Quartet. Co-commissioned with the Henry Barber Trust.

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Music Played

  • Anonymous

    Os mutorum, lux cecorum (Office of St Columba)

    Performer: Barnaby Brown. Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Conductor: Geoffrey Webber.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Thomas Erskine

    Overture in C, op 1 no 2; I. Allegro

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • Linn.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold en Italie, Op. 16: II. Marche de p猫lerins chantant la pri猫re du soir

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Berlioz: Les Nuits d'茅t茅 & Harold en Italie.
    • Erato.
    • 8.

  • Helen Hopekirk

    Iona Memories: III. In the ruins

    Performer: Gary Steigerwalt.
    • Hopekirk: Piano Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah, Pt.3, no.43; I know that my redeemer liveth [soprano air]

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • ERATO.

  • Fergus Hall

    On Sonorous Seas: I. Baleen, Orca & Boat Noise

    • self release.

  • Erik Chisholm

    From the True Edge of the Great World: Prelude 1 'Ossianic Lay'

    Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.6 in F major Op.68 'Pastoral' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seven last words of our Saviour on the Cross H.20.1a for orchestra: 1st mvt

    Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Franz Liszt

    Les jeux d'eaux 脿 la Villa d'Este (3me Ann茅es de p猫lerinage)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Naive.
    • 4.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hebrides Overture

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.
    • LINN RECORDS.

  • Anon.

    Kilmarnock Psalm 16 8-9

    Choir: The Gaelic Psalm Singers of Back Free Church, Lewis.
    • Salm vol 1.
    • Arc Light Editions.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: Bourree; Gigue

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • LINN RECORDS.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Remembering 2012

    Performer: Chaos String Quartet.

  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal, Act III Suite (Ed. Abbado): Verwandlungsmusik (Transformation Music)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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