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Cyril and Methodius, brothers who are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet to transcribe scripture.

Featuring star soloists in Yo-Yo Ma, Daniil Trifonov and more, this series offers an opportunity to hear great Czech music by Dvorak, Smetana and Janacek — who will be represented by a rare performance of his “Glagolitic Mass.”

There is simply no way to think about classical music without Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis,” Janácek’s “Glagolitic Mass,” Stravinsky’s Mass, Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” to say nothing of the eternally timely requiem masses by Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms, Verdi, Faure and Ligeti.

The US musician led the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers in a stirring and dramatic programme culminating in Leos Janáček's utterly unique Glagolitic Mass.

Part two was devoted to Janáček's elemental Glagolitic Mass - one of the greatest 20th Century choral works.