30/4: SUNDAY FEATURE: Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution –
A Square Dance in Heaven
44 Minuten
The Protestant Reformation has traditionally been regarded as „the triumph of the word“, marking a decisive shift from a visual and sensual culture to a literary one. But for Martin Luther, music, with its power to move emotions, was an „inexpressible miracle“ second only to Theology. When people engage in music, he said, singing in four or five parts, it is like a „square dance in heaven.“
Luther’s ideas about music were to have a decisive influence on the development of music in Germany …
30/4, THE CHOIR: Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution –
The Genevan Psalter
1 hour
Sara Mohr-Pietsch journeys into the reforming world of John Calvin. As part of BBC Radio 3’s ‚Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution‘ season, The Choir focuses on the Genevan Psalter and its impact upon choral worship including the development of the Anglo-Psalter.…
30/4 THE LISTENING SERVICE: Breaking Free: Martin Luther’s Revolution
30 Minuten
As part of Radio 3’s Breaking Free: Martin Luther’s Revolution, The Listening Service asks where the idea of communal singing, especially in religious contexts, came from in modern Europe….
1/5, RADIO 3 IN CONCERT: Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution –
The Clare Reformation 500 Project
2 1/2 Stunden
For Radio 3’s ‚Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution‘, a concert from St John’s Smith Square celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, given by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and Clare Baroque, conducted by Graham Ross.
Presented by Martin Handley …
2/5, ARTS AND IDEAS: Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution
45 Minuten
Peter Stanford, Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch join Anne McElvoy to explore the question Martin Luther – Fundamentalist, Reactionary or Enlightened Creator of the Modern World? …
2/5, FREE THINKING: Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution –
New Research into the Reformation
45 Minuten
Rana Mitter looks at new research into the way daily life changed in Britain after the Reformation for Radio 3’s series of programmes exploring Martin Luther’s Revolution. His guests are: …
7/5, THE EARLY MUSIC SHOW: Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution – Developments in Catholic Music
7/5, THE CHOIR: Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution
1 Stunde
For BBC Radio 3’s ‚Breaking Free – Martin Luther’s Revolution‘ season, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace to explore how church music and worship in England were affected by the Protestant Reformation. …
