Vienna (OTS) – From literature to music to listener requests – the Easter program on Ö1, Ö3 and FM4 offers it all.
In the Ö1 series “In Focus – Religion and Ethics” on Wednesday, March 20th from 4:05 p.m., a theologian, an expert in ancient manuscripts and a lawyer will take a close look at the biblical reports about the trial against Jesus of Nazareth. On Palm Sunday, March 24th, Sr. Karin Weiler CS will speak in “Intermediate Call” (6:55 a.m.) about the topics of grief and coping with grief, and “Art of Living” (7:05 a.m.) will talk to the artist Haruko Maeda about her works exhibited in the Hallstatt parish church Transience and life and reports on “The trial and death of Jesus from a Jewish perspective: Thoughts on and insights from Chaim Cohn”. The classical request concert “Great titles – strong pieces” is on the Ö1 program on Palm Sunday (March 24th) and Easter Sunday (March 31st) from 1:10 p.m.
During Holy Week, the Catholic theologian and German scholar Mirja Kutzer will speak about “inside views” in “Thoughts for the Day” – from Monday, March 25th to Saturday, March 30th at 6:56 a.m. “Go or stay? – Who is (still) Catholic today” is the topic of “In Focus – Religion and Ethics” (4:05 p.m.) on Wednesday, March 27th. At the beginning of the “Easter Triduum”, the director of the Protestant aid organization Diakonie Maria-Katharina Moser examines the question of what consequences and instructions for action can be derived for Christians if one takes the tradition of Easter seriously – in “Subject: Easter” on Maundy Thursday, March 28th from 6:50 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” and “Musical Wonder World of Hawaii”
On Good Friday, March 29th, “Moment – Kulinarium” (3:30 p.m.) is dedicated to “Crème brûlée, Crema catalana, Bavarian cream and others. Patisserie and desserts based on yolks”. A recording of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” from the Salzburg Easter Festival 2024 can be heard from 7:30 p.m. Under the direction of Antonio Pappano, Orchestra & Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Bachchor Salzburg, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), Judit Kutasi (mezzo-soprano), Luciano Ganci (tenor) and Michele Pertusi (bass) play and sing.
On Easter Sunday, March 31st, the Catholic theologian Martin Jäggle speaks in “Interjection” (6:55 a.m.) about how Easter Sunday is a reminder of life, of everything that is stronger than death. In “The Art of Living” (7:05 a.m.), Bishop Benno Elbs deals with the biblical text that tells of the resurrection of Jesus, the psychologist and psychotherapist Elisabeth Lukas talks about “A new view of life – recognizing what really counts” and In the article “Jerusalem has enchanted me” the Benedictine Nicodemus Schnabel, abbot of the Dormition Abbey on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem, is portrayed. Under the title “Open is my paradise in the heart, draw everyone, everyone into it now!” Chris Pichler reads poems about beginnings, recoveries and departures – i.e. about resurrections of various kinds – by Christine Lavant in “Du lovely Kunst” (8.15 a.m.), Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and others. Plus music by Edvard Grieg, Alexander Scriabin, Robert Schumann and others “Musical wonder world of Hawaii” is the motto from 5.10 p.m. in “Spielräume Spezial” (second part: April 1st, 5.10 p.m.) and in “ Supernova” (7:45 p.m.) meets contemporary sounds in a recording from this year’s Tirol Easter Festival Orlando di Lasso’s motet cycle. Under the direction of Cordula Bürgi, Elina Viluma-Helling, Helena Sorokina, Hugo Paulsson Stove, Aleksander Rewinski, Ulfried Staber sing; They are joined by Marco Sala (double bass clarinet) and Roman Yusipey (accordion).
HC Artmann mit „med ana schwoazzn dintn“
“Lebenskunst” (7:05 a.m.) reports on Easter Monday, April 1st about an encounter with the spiritual teacher and Benedictine Anselm Grün and speaks with the artist Zenita Komad about “About the divine power that flows between us”. On “Ö1 Küchenradio” (1:10 p.m.) director Calle Fuhr serves vegan dishes such as a red coffee-quinoa salad with fried herb mushrooms and serves music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Lady Gaga and Antonin Dvorak. From 2:05 p.m. in “Literature on Holiday” you can hear HC Artmann in the original sound in a recording from 1993 with his best-known collection of poems “med ana schwoazzn dintn”. “A soundtrack to Michael Köhlmeier’s storytelling” is on the program of “Opus – the music colloquium” from 3:05 p.m. Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday, Johann Sebastian Bach and Harry Partch, Thelonious Monk and Django Reinhardt, Niccolò Paganini and Johann Strauss or fictional characters: Michael Köhlmeier’s novel “Abendland” (2007) is full of music. Köhlmeier selected exemplary recordings for this broadcast. “Evangelical in Austria – Portrait of a Free Church” is on the program of “Memo – Ideas, Myths, Celebrations” (7:05 p.m.), from 7:30 p.m. Sir Neville Marriner conducts Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” in a recording from 1992, with a chorus and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sylvia McNair (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Jerry Hadley (tenor) and Robert Lloyd (bass).
Easter on hit radio Ö3
Hitradio Ö3 starts Holy Week with the program “Walek wanders”: Tom Walek is once again out and about with celebrities in the Austrian mountains. The Ö3 program “Walek wanders” can be heard on Sundays during the Easter holidays. On Palm Sunday (March 24th) Walek will be hiking with Slalom World Cup winner Manuel Feller, and on Easter Sunday (March 31st) he will be hiking with Christina Sturmer. On Good Friday (March 29th) Hitradio Ö3 will broadcast the Gospel of John shortly before 3 p.m. On Easter Monday (April 1st), Ö3 becomes a music holiday: For an entire Ö3 day you can hear the best one-hit wonder songs, moderated by Benny Hörtnagl (9 a.m. – 2 p.m.) and Sheyda Kharrazi (2 p.m. – 7 p.m ).
The FM4 Easter program
Spring arrives on FM4 with the program “FM4 Frühlingshits 3000” during Holy Week. From Monday to Friday, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Christoph Sepin presents the most beautiful music for the spring mood and Easter holidays, everything between Bad Bunny and Green Day. On Friday, March 29th, one day’s focus will be “FM4 goes Country”. FM4 listens to the new Beyoncé album, with which the pop icon tries nothing less than to rewrite the history of American country music, and asks the question why cowboys and cowgirls are back in the charts right now. On Easter Monday, April 1st, Elisabeth Scharang visits the maternity ward at the Floridsdorf Clinic in the “FM4 Field Recordings” (1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.). There she talks to midwives, doctors and new parents about starting life.
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