Afternoon on 3 - 100 Years of British Music - Episode 2

Presented by Louise Fryer. Performances of British music from the 20th and 21st centuries, linked thematically with a Haydn String Quartet. Haydn's sombre meditation on Jesus' last words on the cross on Good Friday is followed by James MacMillan's Silence - his response to Jesus' anguished final question: 'Lord, why hast thou forsaken me?' Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 54, No 1 Endellion Quartet Judith Weir: Natural History Ailish Tynan (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Haydn: The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross Chilingirian Quartet MacMillan: Symphony No 3 (Silence) BBC Philharmonic James MacMillan (conductor) Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op 31 Allan Clayton (tenor) Stephen Stirling (horn) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Paul Watkins (conductor).