Broadcast on Radio 3 Sundays 17:00-18:30

Discovering Music explores pieces of music in detail, providing a unique insight into the inner workings of a millennium of musical history. Programmes are either based around a featured work or cover a musical topic like melody, harmony or rhythm. The two main presenters are Charles Hazlewood and Stephen Johnson.

Sunday 26th April 2009 17:00
Stephen Johnson explores Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass, a cantata for soli, choir, orchestra and organ written in 1926, playing excerpts and the entire work from a recording by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Karel Ancerl.
The text of the mass is in old Slavonic language: from an early age, Janacek had been passionate about the traditions of the Slavonic peoples.

Broadcast
Sun 26 Apr 2009 17:00 BBC Radio 3
Link: Series http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/