Music for Holy Saturday includes Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, with countertenor, Andreas Scholl and Ensemble 415 and a selection of different settings from across the centuries of the chant Ubi Caritas, traditionally sung as part of the Holy Thursday liturgy. With news, weather and ecologist Anja Murray’s Nature File at 9.15.
Nature File Episode 3: Dwarf Willow
Trees are things we think of as growing big, but right now, among the uplands all along Atlantic coasts, tiny dwarf willows are bursting in to life with fuzzy catkins and fresh spring leaves. This week on Nature File, we focus our attention on the world’s tiniest tree, dwarf willow.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 19th April, 7am-10am
