Spring is here, a spirit of renewal is in the air, and Holy Week is upon us. Join us on WRTI for the most beautiful and inspiring music all week long, including special programming on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Every morning at 8 a.m., from April 14-18, spend Breakfast with Bach enjoying music that J.S. Bach wrote for Easter and Holy Week; your host, as always, is John Scherch.
On Good Friday — April 18, from noon to 3 p.m. — join us for a complete performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. This 2016 recording features Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, and Trinity Boys Choir, with James Gilchrist as the Evangelist and Stephan Loges as Jesus.
On Easter Sunday, April 20, at 1 p.m., The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a special presentation of Handel's Messiah conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin last December. It features soprano Lucy Crowe, mezzo Sasha Cooke, tenor Spencer Britten, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir.
This will be followed by an Easter edition of Sunday Classical, hosted by Melinda Whiting from 3 to 6 p.m. Then beginning at 6, we’ll present a complete performance of Bach’s Easter Oratorio by Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe — along with other music composed for Easter by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, William Byrd and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
From everyone at WRTI, we wish you and yours a meaningful Good Friday and a joyous Easter filled with love.