Thanks to EBU Radio Members, for the second consecutive year, Euroradio is pleased to be able to offer a special day devoted to music for Holy Week and Easter. This broadcast of ten concerts on Sunday, 17 April 2011 from 7.45 to 22.00 GMT will feature instrumental and vocal sacred music centred on Holy Week and Easter from a wide variety of periods and styles, performed at venues in Vatican City, Australia, Romania (Byzantine Orthodox tradition), Spain, the Netherlands, Latvia, Belgium, Sweden, Britain and Germany.

With an average of 16 radio broadcasters per concert and an estimated audience of 2.7 million listeners per concert, this day will enable participating EBU Members to offer their listeners the following works:

Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
The Seven Last Words, oratorio

Composer: Arvo Pärt (* 1935)
Berlin Mass

Composer: Paul Constantinescu (1909-1963)
Byzantine Easter Oratorio

Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae - Responsoria ad Matutinum

Composer: J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
St John Passion

Composer: Frank Martin (1890-1974)
Mass, for a cappella double choir (1922-1924)

Composer: Carl Heinrich Graun (1703-1759)
Der Tod Jesu, oratorio

Composer: Olle Lindberg (*1967)
Sanctus, from 'Missa Nordica'

Composer: Francis Pott (* 1957)
Jesu, that has me dearly bought (Première; BBC Commission)

Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
St Matthew Passion (1730)