CHORAL CHIHUAHUA

Singers v Conductors

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

How much energy do we all use in rehearsal and concert? Robert & Eamonn talk to dietician/singer Kate Powell - and also meet Instagram's 'choirconductor' Jonas Rasmussen. Music by Jean Francaix, Britten and Benevoli.

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National Youth Choir of Scotland and memories of Berty Rice

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Morven McIntyre introduces The National Youth Choir of Scotland with director Christopher Bell while Eamonn, Sammy and Robert remember Berty Rice. Music by James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave and Elizabeth Poston.

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The truth about False Relations (2)

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Spem, Howells and the Tallis googly.

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The truth about False Relations (1)

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Editor and singer Sally Dunkley joins Robert and Eamonn to understand why composers enjoy 'false relations', the major and minor chord at the same time. Music by Tallis, Shepherd, Byrd, Monteverdi with The Sixteen, The Cardinall's Musick, Gesualdo Six, I Fagiolini, Apollo 5 and more.

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Clare Stevens - Choral Music journalist

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Has anyone actually been to more choral concerts than Clare Stevens? Meet a music journalist who was denied the sort of access many of us took for granted because of the Troubles in 1970s Belfast but has been making up for it ever since.

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From Persian lands afar

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Rev Dr Jonathan Arnold takes Eamonn and Robert through the different celebrations this midwinter time, with music by the late Andrew Carter, Orlandus Lassus, J.S.Bach and Joanna Marsh.

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A Christmas Episode

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:30:00 GMT

Eamonn, Robert and Sammy (Nicholas...) with some festive choral chat, Christmas mishaps remembered and fabulous music by Errollyn Wallen, Howells and Giovanni Gabrieli.

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It’s beginning to feel…

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Robert and Eamonn get chatty, and hear from soprano Rebecca Lea (once they've worked out which one) about a new album of Winter Songs.

MUSIC LINKS

Jamie W. Hall - Dust of Snow / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oYvoOT

Richard Rodney Bennett - A Good-Night / Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4rmFHxQ

The Nineteenth Night of December - Sun Keting / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49vzU2m

David McGregor - Ariadne / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49CmIca

Cheryl Frances-Hoad - The Core of Time / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oUPlpr

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Our Man in Oz - Part 2

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:00:00 GMT

A follow-up dispatch from Eamonn’s sojourn to Sydney, Australia. He chats to ex-pat Amy Moore, Co-Artistic Director of The Song Company, along with members of their Developing Artist Programme (includes a good James Bowman story...). Music by Grieg, Guerrero and Bernard Hughes.

MUSIC LINKS

Monteverdi - Volgea l'anima mia / La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina; Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/5UrdSHZvhMRkuDGqi0q5y5?si=d09e867cc16842a9

Grieg - Foraarsregn / Sigmund Hjelset / Per Vollestad; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oVWjtW

Bernard Hughes - Perhaps / The Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4hSHeal

Guerrero - Ave Virgo sanctissima / The Marian Consort / Rory McCleery; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3JMTDjB

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The Breakfast Show

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Eamonn, Robert and Sammy meet 'earlier than they'd like it, sir' to enjoy Sansara singing Pärt, a hugely fun piece by Robert Heppener and some Bach.

MUSIC LINKS

Arvo Pärt - Stabat Mater / SANSARA / Fretwork / Tom Herring; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49h8UDy

Robert Heppener - Del iubilo del core che esce in voce / Netherlands Chamber Choir

JS Bach - Der Gerechte kommt um, BWV deest / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3JcskPr

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Introducing Susannah Cibber

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Dr Anita Datta talks to Professor Elaine McGirr about one of Handel's favourite singers, Susannah Maria Cibber... and an extra Patreon-only bit with Roderick and Robert.

MUSIC LINKS

Handel - Acis and Galatea : Act II "The flocks shall leave the mountains" / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/46PP3db

Handel - Messiah : "He Was Despised" / Dunedin Consort / John Butt / Clare Wilkinson; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/48K080P

Thomas Arne - Rosamunde : "Rise, Glory, Rise" / Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood / Dame Emma Kirkby - Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3VYuODQ

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From Texas to Scotland

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT

Ahead of The Cumnock Tryst, Eamonn is joined by Sir James MacMillan and Taylor Scott Davis to talk composition and community choirs.

MUSIC LINKS

Taylor Scott Davis - Magnificat anima mea / VOCES8, Barnaby Smith; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4nrSVab

Stephen Paulus - The Road Home / Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4mGAuNF

Alfred Schnittke - Concerto for Choir: IV. Complete this Work Which I Began in Hope and with Your Name / USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir, Valery Polyansky; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/42CKdNZ

James MacMillan - When You See the Millions of the Mouthless Dead / The Elysian Singers, Sam Laughton; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/46qlmPA

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Robert's Big Adventure

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Autumn season! Robert and I Fagiolini are busy in Scotland with Purcell, Monteverdi and their first 40th anniversary outing. How do you put together three shows at the same time? Contributors: Nicholas Mulroy, Martha McLorinan, Julia Doyle/Donk and plenty more.

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Young Ones (and Old Ones)

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:00:00 GMT

Robert and Eamonn talk New Zealand Youth Choir, Genesis 16, Emma Warren and more. Watch NZ Youth Choir at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddffod on YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGSCJPlAIjE

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Eamonn in Oz

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:00:00 GMT

Eamonn has been working in Sydney, Australia and managed to grab a chat with Brett Weymark and Elizabeth Scott of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.

MUSIC LINKS

Ross Edwards - Mountain Chant II - Crooked Mountains / University of New Hampshire Chamber Singers, William Kempster

Ralph Vaughan Williams -"A Sea Symphony" / London Synphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Hickox; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3IgMUgE

Luke Byrne - Desert Sea / Gondwana Chorale, Carl Crossan

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Charles MacDougall - VOCES8 at 20, and not ‘just Ken’!

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:00:00 GMT

Charles meets Adam Hilton and talks VOCES8 early days, being Ken and more - with contributions from colleagues Rachel Parkes, Barney Smith and Emily Dickens.

MUSIC LINKS

Orlando Gibbons - O Clap Your Hands / VOCES8; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4498T0b

Edward Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, Pt. 1 'Proficiscere, anima Christiana' / Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh / Andrew Foster-Williams; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/44t02b8

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The Voice Doctor

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Sammy & Robert talk to Declan Costello, Consultant Laryngologist, and all-round good egg. "Vocal injuries can happen to the people with the very best techniques..."

This episode is sponsored by CHORALLY - to find out more visit www.chorally.co

MUSIC LINKS

Hoyt Curtin, Joseph Barbera & William Hanna arr. Jacob Collier - Flintstones; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4kXnQJH

Joby Talbot - Path of Miracles: Leon / Tenebrae / Nigel Short; Listen on Apple Music -https://apple.co/45K3Khw

Judith Bingham - The Drowned Lovers / Tenebrae / Martha McLorinan / Nigel Short; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3HxB0P4

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A mighty rushing wind

Tue, 27 May 2025 20:00:00 GMT

Robert talks us through a new project being put together, this one - for a recording - involving programming, fundraising, rehearsing, a lot of travelling and a collaboration with I Fagiolini and Bristol University Singers. Lots of guests and music excerpts.

MUSIC LINKS

To find our more about I Fagiolini's Benevoli project check out: www.ifagiolini.com/benevoli

To support the final recording in the series, please visit: www.fundrazr.com/ifagiolini

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The Compilation Episode

Mon, 12 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT

As the podcast hits its 5-year anniversary, Robert, Eamonn and Sammy choose a few favourite bits from the 80 episodes. Insight, a few laughs and why 'your inner chihuahua' matters in singing. Also chickens, cornetto jokes and theosophy, obviously.

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Easter Monday

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

A brief Easter check in with Robert including Etymology corner, John Wilbye's 'My throte is sore' and news of a special London day on April 29th.

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David Temple MBE

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:00:00 GMT

40 years after founding Crouch End Festival Chorus, conductor David Temple chats with Eamonn about teaching, commissioning and his passion for Elgar’s The Kingdom.

MUSIC LINKS

Fanny Mendelssohn - Hiob, H-U 258: III. Chor "Leben und Wohltat hast du an mir getan" / Crouch End Festival Chorus / London Mozart Players / David Temple; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3FTBX3B

James McCarthy - Codebreaker: Wondrous Light / BBC Concert Orchestra / Hertfordshire Chorus / David Temple; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3XN6Ooq

Elgar - 'And as they spake' from The Kingdom / Francesca Chiejina / London Mozart Players - David Temple - Released 09.05.25 Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/42yWCCJ

Elgar - 'And suddenly there came from heaven' from The Kingdom / Dame Sarah Connolly / Ashley Riches / Crouch End Festival Chorus / David Temple - Released 09.05.25 Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/42yWCCJ

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The Magazine Episode

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

In a bumper episode of choral dispatches, Robert pops over to Oslo, Adam Hilton chats to Suzzie Vango (Papagena) and Stuart Overington (Halle Youth Choirs) while Sammy talks to instrumentalists Matthew Truscott and Jonathan Manson about what they value in singers.

MUSIC LINKS

Flory Jagoda - Hamisha Asar / Arr. S. Vango; Papagena / Suzzie Vango; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4huiJyv

Ken Steven - Hentakan Jiwa / The Hallé Youth Choir / Stuart Overington; Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/xgl3PzjUX68

JS Bach - Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 / The Norwegian Soloists' Choir - Grete Pedersen; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4ioo6k9

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A week with Roddy

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:00:00 GMT

What is a typical week when you're one the country's busier solo baritones but also a composer and arranger? Follow Roderick Williams as he gives a recital here, interview there, listens to young singers, stands in front of choirs for that Fauré Requiem - but also tries to write a flute concerto. Glorious chats en route with Gareth Malone, Julia Doyle/Donk, Andrew Manze, Martyn Brabbins, Carolyn Sampson and Gregory Batsleer. Will it ever stop?

MUSIC LINKS

Handel - Behold, I tell you a mystery (from Messiah) - Roderick Williams / Akademie fuer alter Musik, Berlin - Justin Doyle; Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/41TInYQ

Butterworth (orchestrated R. Williams) - Loveliest of trees - Roderick Williams / Halle Orchestra - Sir Mark Elder; Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3DwaYtY

Gipps (orchestrated R. Williams) - The Pulley - Roderick Williams / Halle Orchestra - Sir Mark Elder; Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3DwaYtY

Vaughan Williams (arr. M. Ford) - Love Bade Me Welcome - Roderick Williams / Vasari Singers / Jeremy Backhouse; Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4iBr8kz

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Programming Notes

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Sammy talks to Dunedin Consort programmer Edward Edgcumbe about how you put a programme together with balance, surprises and a good flow. And then Sammy and Robert have a bit of a chat about it too.

MUSIC LINKS

Listen to Miserere by James MacMillan, performed by The Sixteen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4gRAuY9

Listen to Heal You by Anna Meredith, performed by Juice Vocal Ensemble on Apple Music https://apple.co/4gWCC0W

Listen to Scattered Rhymes by Tarik O'Regan, performed by Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir on Apple Music https://apple.co/3D1uzSC

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Show and Tell

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Robert, Sammy & Eamonn chat through some tracks and things they're thinking about at the moment. Pentatonix, Jeremy Denk's book 'Every Good Boy Does Fine' - and the start of CHORAL CLINIC. Also Monteverdi & Bach. And Robert says 'Rinuccini gloss'. Read 'Every Good Boy Does Fine' by Jeremy Denk in Apple Books - https://apple.co/4hQkCGt

Explore the music in this episode of Choral Chihuahua : Listen to 'Deluxe Edition' by Pentatonix on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4ht2Ed7; Listen to 'Sweet Torment' by I Fagiolini on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4aRUQ1W; Listen to 'Bach: Mass in B Minor' by Philharmonia Orchestra - https://apple.co/4hQps6x; Listen to 'Bach: Mass in B Minor' by The Sixteen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4aRUQ1W

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Joanna Marsh

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMT

We're back: dive into Season 10 with composer Joanna Marsh. 'I'm slightly drunk on her music' says Robert, as her album - A Plastic Theatre - is released this week with a line-up of I Fagiolini, VOCES8, Stile Antico, The Lyons Mouth, and the Royal Liverpool Phil. Hear selected tracks and Joanna's own thoughts on composing for choirs.

Listen to A Plastic Theatre on Apple Music https://apple.co/3EiHRdu

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Les Gits reunis

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 06:00:39 GMT

Sammy, Robert and Eamonn finally make it to the same room to enjoy the richness of each others' company, if a slightly meagre feast. Cool tracks from Elgar, Joanna Marsh and the David Rees-Williams trio.

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Busy December

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 06:00:22 GMT

A magazine episode! Robert tracks down Eamonn, Adam Hilton speaks to Nicholas Chalmers, Sue Hollingworth and Aga Serrugo Lugo at the Sing For Pleasure conference, and Jules Wood tries to help us get through December. Music from National Youth Choir, Scunthorpe Coop Junior Choir - and a new outrage from William Campbell sung by The 24.

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Tea with Olive Simpson

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:00:18 GMT

Meet consort legend Olive Simpson, Swingle singer, and the voice of TV themes and about every London ensemble you can think of!

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Upper Voices

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:00:19 GMT

Nicholas Mulroy is joined by Sarah MacDonald and Kerry Andrew to talk upper voices: what that means, how to write for it and where you can find repertoire.

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Dog Ears

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:00:42 GMT

Eamonn, Robert & Sammy chat through some favourite albums.

TRACKLISTING : (1) Tickle Toes - The Double Six of Paris (2) Sir Charles Hubert Parry - Lord, let me know mine end; The Choir of St George's Chapel / Christopher Robinson (3) Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphic Hymn; Theatre of Voices (4) Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Nansi Imali (5) Patrick Gowers - Viri Galilaei; St Paul's Cathedral Choir / John Scott (6) Henry Purcell - Mark How Readily; The King's Consort / Robert King

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Performance Anxiety

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:00:20 GMT

Nicholas Mulroy is joined by fellow podcaster Hattie Butterworth, from Things Musicians Don't Talk About, and performance coach Charlotte Tomlinson for a full and frank discussion about the psychological pressures of performing in front of others.

LINKS : www.thingsmusiciansdonttalkabout.com | www.charlottetomlinson.com

TRACKLISTING : (1) Francis Poulenc - Salve Regina; The Sixteen / Harry Christophers (2) Gustav Holst - The Cloud Messenger; BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (3) Stevie Wonder - Kings Return; Sir Duke

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Colossal Baroque

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:00:02 GMT

Ahead of I Fagiolini’s next multi-choir recording release, Robert opens up the world of Orazio Benevoli and his 4-choir surround sound from 17th century Rome. Followed by a quick roundtable with Nicholas Mulroy, Stuart O'Hara, Ailsa Campbell and Dominique Saulnier about recording as a pro singer. Music extracts from 'Missa Benevola’ available from 4 October on Coro Records. Stream, download or buy CD at https://orcd.co/ifagbenevola

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Sir Mark Elder

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:33 GMT

Fresh from his Prom, Sir Mark Elder (another ex-chorister) reflects on a life with singers and singing, with Eamonn.

TRACKLISTING : (1) Vaughan Williams - Mass in G minor; Choir of Canterbury Cathedral / Sidney Campbell (2) Puccini - Eviva! from Le Willis; London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder / Opera Rara Chorus / Brian Mulligan (3) Elgar - Pentecost: "And suddenly" from The Kingdom; Hallé, Sir Mark Elder / Susan Bickley / Hallé Choir (4) James MacMillan - Christmas Oratorio; Tableau I, Chorus 2; London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder / London Philharmonic Choir / Roderick Williams / Lucy Crowe (5) 5) Delius - Herauf, nun herauf from Mass of Life; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder / Edvard Grieg Kor, Collegium Musicum Choir / Bergen Philharmonic Choir

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Eamonn's Partsong Fetish

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 05:00:45 GMT

As a gentle welcome back, therapy is provided for Eamonn's partsong fetish with Eamonn himself, Robert and also some wine. TRACKLISTING : (1) Elgar - The Prince of Sleep; Cambridge University Chamber Choir / Christopher Robinson (2) Elgar - Go Song of mine; Finzi Singers / Paul Spicer (3) Schubert - An die Sonne; Monteverdi Choir / Malcolm Bilson / John Eliot Gardiner (4) Schumann - Double Choir motets Op.141; NDR Chamber Choir / Philip Ahmann (5) Pearsall - Light of my soul; Bath Camerata / Nigel Perrin (6) Debussy - Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder!; I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth (7) Ravel - Ronde; Ensemble Vocal Philippe Caillard (8) Stanford - Heraclitus; Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir / Paul Spicer

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Summer Playlist

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 05:00:27 GMT

Eamonn & Robert 'get French' but also enjoy Echo Ensemble's new CD 'Innocence' and drop into the York Early Music Festival. Music by Machaut, Ravel, Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk & anon

LINKS :

www.tenebrae-choir.com/learning-connection/classroom-singing

thesixteen.com/freevideos/eamonns-top-tips-creating-space/

www.echo-choir.com/innocence

www.apotropaik.eu

ncem.co.uk/yemf/

www.ifagiolini.com/amuse-bouche.html

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In a Kentish churchyard

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:00:21 GMT

Robert is in rural Kent, just down the road from Canterbury Cathedral, chatting with back row singers from three cathedrals including WINCHESTER. He also remembers the Nigel Perrin, top line of the original Kings Singers, with Nigel's colleague Alastair Hume.

TRACKS : (1) Gabrieli Jackson - Sancte Deus; Canterbury Cathedral Choir / David Newsholme / Sam Corkin - Saxophone (2) Leonel Power - Credo; The Orlando Consort (3) Haydn - Harmoniemesse Credo; RIAS Kammerchor / Freiburg Baroque Orchestra / Jakobs (4) Albert Hammond - I'm a train; The King's SIngers (5) Weelkes - Since Robin Hood; The King's Singers

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Fork Antatas

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 05:00:07 GMT

Eamon and Nicholas bring you some of their favourite Bach Cantatas.

TRACKS : (1) Johann Sebastian Bach - Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12: II. Chorus "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen"; Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3XC892h (2) Johann Sebastian Bach - Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50: Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft (Chorus); Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3VpljN2 (3) Johann Sebastian Bach - Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe, BWV 25: Chorus; Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4cvxU8G (4) Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata No. 65, "Sie weden aus Saba alle kommen", Cantata 65: I. Coro: Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen; Gabrieli / Paul McCreesh - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3VPYGmE

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Cuba Marta Londra

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 05:00:32 GMT

Robert chats to Sammy about his new album of Monteverdi / Purcell and songs from South America 'De pasión mortal' and learns about the history and music of the Clergy Support Trust's May festival. Also a development with the 'Music & Pregnancy' episode.

Listen to De pasión mortal by Nicholas Mulroy on Apple Music https://apple.co/3wZ1gNB

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What is new music anyway?

Mon, 27 May 2024 05:00:18 GMT

What is new music? And new when? How tricky does it get for singers? Can composers hear what they write? Could they in 1375? Fascinating discussion with composer James Weeks and Lucy Goddard of Exaudi Vocal Ensemble which has attempted the parts other ensembles daren't reach!

TRACKS : (1) Michael Finnissy - Tom Fool's Wooing; Exaudi Vocal Ensemble / James Weeks - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3ysGuq1 (2) Christopher Fox - A spousal verse; Exaudi Vocal Ensemble / James Weeks - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3K71zJ7 (3) James Weeks - ‘lei’ and ‘occhi’ from Libro di fiammelle e ombre (Book of flames and shadows); Exaudi Vocal Ensemble / James Weeks (4) Naomi Pinnock - Landscape; Exaudi Vocal Ensemble / James Weeks (5) Sciarrino - O lodola from 12 Madrigali; Exaudi Vocal Ensemble / James Weeks

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Singing in Pregnancy

Mon, 13 May 2024 05:00:54 GMT

In the third episode about issues facing female singers, Eamonn again talks to Dr Jenevora Williams and Charlotte Mobbs about how physical and mental changes affect singing, with contributions from several female colleagues.

TRACKS : (1) Tomás Luis de Victoria - Ne timeas Maria; The Sixteen / Harry Christophers - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3UWHBHg (2) Hilary Campbell - Ave Maria; The Marian Consort / Rory McCleery - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3UTcJr4 (3) Imogen Holst - I. Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow / VI. Shed no Tear; The Sixteen / Harry Christophers - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4dCFb7E (4) Henry Purcell, arr. Susanne Blache - Music For A While; Sjaella - Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/8TTjw2tGbtg

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The US Choral Scene

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 05:00:59 GMT

Open your eyes and ears to the US choral scene, and be surprised! Christiana Howell and Luthien Brackett tell Sammy and Robert about the wealth of choral music in the US, from schools to spirituals, social change and MONEY...

TRACKS : (1) Trad. Arr. F.M. Christiansen - Beautiful Savior; St. Olaf Choir / Anton Armstrong / Kelly Becker - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3Whv2qS (2) Trad. Arr M. Hogan - My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord; Atlanta Master Chorale / Eric Nelson (3) Caroline Shaw - Partita: II. Sarabande; Roomful of Teeth - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4aRh57t (4) J.S. Bach - Singet Dem Herrn ein neues Lied: Mvt. III; The Aeolians of Oakwood University / Jason Max Ferdinand

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Choral Conducting

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 05:00:23 GMT

Eamonn Dougan kicks-off our eighth season, talking choral conducting with guests Patrick Russill, Hilary Campbell and Jack Apperley.

TRACKS : (1) Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tantum Ergo; Choir of the London Oratory / Patrick Russill (2) Judith Weir - Love Bade Me Welcome; Eric Ericson Chamber Choir / Fredrik Malmberg - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3U3H5pg (3) Caroline Shaw - The Isle, III. Caliban; Roomful of Teeth - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/49BcFAm (4) Herbert Howells - Regina caeli; Choir of the London Oratory / Patrick Russill (5) James MacMillan - Tu es Petrus; London Brass / Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3vWbY6I

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Music for Tenebrae

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 06:00:14 GMT

A Christian service performed on only three days of the year: just before Easter, focussing on the darkness of life without Christ. Insightful chat from Sammy, Robert and (finally) Eamonn with brilliant performances from I Fagiolini (Victoria), Tenebrae (Gesualdo), Les Arts Florissants (Couperin), Trinity Cambridge (Poulenc) and Gesualdo Six (Joanna Ward).

TRACKS : (1) Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories: Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday, Nocturn III; I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3x2X5zW (2) Carlo Gesualdo - Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday, First Nocturn: Tristis est anima mea; Tenebrae / Nigel Short - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3Tpn3Fb (3) François Couperin - Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint; Les Arts Florissants / William Christie - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4a0L4JO (4) Francis Poulenc - 4 Motets pour un temps de pénitence, FP 97; The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge / Stephen Layton - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3Tmf2kh (5) Joanna Ward - Christus factus est; The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/494d0Lo

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The best things about LENT

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:00:25 GMT

Revd Canon Dr Victoria Johnson - outgoing precentor at York Minster and incoming to St John's College Cambridge - gives Sammy and Robert some context on Lent while they listen to plangent and powerful tracks by Dobrinka Tabakova, Buxtehude, Tallis (natch) and Bairstow. (THIS EPISODE DOES NOT CONTAIN JAMES MACMILLAN'S MISERERE. BUT IT SHOULD.)

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TRACKS : (1) Edward Bairstow - The Lamentations; The Choir of York Minster / Philip Moore - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3TrCyxI (2) Thomas Tallis - Lamentations of Jeremiah; Aperi Animam / Daniel Koplitz (3) Dietrich Buxtehude - Membra Jesu Nostri (excerpt); Ricercar Consort / Philippe Pierlot - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3Peeb4a (4) Dobrinka Tabakova - Turn Our Captivity, O Lord; The Sixteen / Harry Christophers - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3V9JGQs

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Music Education

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 06:00:50 GMT

Robert tries to understand where singing and music are in schools in 2024 and gets a summary from Tim Burnage on how things have changed. He talks to Thomas Leech, director of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme and we also hear from Eamonn in Dublin on a new initiative run by Chamber Choir Ireland.

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TRACKS : (1) John Sheppard - In pace (extract); Leeds Cathedral Girls Choir and Scholars / Thomas Leech (2) Plainchant: Alleluia tollite jugum (extract); Leeds Cathedral Senior Girls' Choir / Thomas Leech (3) Thomas Tallis - Loquebantur variis linguis; Leeds Cathedral Girls Choir and Scholars / Members of The Sixteen / Harry Christophers (4) Fintan O’Carroll - Suantrái ár Slánaitheora; Chamber Choir Ireland / Paul Hillier - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/48xV8s1 (5) Levente Gyöngyösi - Ubi caritas; Pro Musica - Szabó Dénes - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3uMVopp

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Polyphony

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 06:00:50 GMT

Clare Wilkinson, Sammy and Robert chat about what matters when singing or listening to polyphony - mostly in Renaissance music but relevant more widely. Some good tips in this one for singers - and even conductors!

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TRACKS : (1) William Byrd - Mass for Three Voices: V. Agnus Dei; The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/498J41K (2) Jacobus Clemens non Papa - Ego Flos Campi; Henry's Eight - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3waLIp7 (3) Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur - Le cantique des cantiques: II. La voix du bien-aimé; I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth https://apple.co/3HVwDKO

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Starting a Choir

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:00:41 GMT

...or IMPENDING DOOM. Nicholas has an actually very light-hearted chat with Ellie Slorach of Kantos Chamber Choir and Harry Bradford of Recordare about the journey with their young choirs so far, while Robert tries to remember what it felt like back in 1986 with I Fagiolini...

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TRACKS : (1) Gustav Holst - I Love My Love; Recordare / Harry Bradford - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4baLizc (2) Rebecca Dale - Materna Requiem: 10. In paradisum: If I Should Go; Kantos Chamber Choir / Clark Rundell - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3S82uwf (3) Lisa Robertson - To Tell It Like It Is; NYCGB Fellowship / Ben Parry https://apple.co/3ScwIOG

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Vocal Jazz

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 06:00:54 GMT

We're back! Our spring season ('spring' is a bit 'hopeful' at the moment and also autumn for southern hemisphere listeners) opens with a look at vocal jazz in the cool company of the sextet, STANDARD DEVIATION. Ever tried it yourself and wondered just how it works? Now you can. Robert is joined by Tegan Eldridge, Olivia Hugh-Jones, Nell Norman, Hugh Beckwith, Harry Baker and Tom Lowen.

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TRACK LISTING :

Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home

Oscar Pettiford & Jon Hendricks, arr. Harry Baker

A Red Red Rose

trad./Burns, arr. Edward Randell (ex-Swingle)

I Know You Know

Esperanza Spalding, arr. Aled Walker

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Christmas Chihuahua

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 06:00:48 GMT

Eamonn, Robert and Sammy finally make it to the same room for mulled wine, mince pies and some intriguing Christmas tracks. Virtual champagne is opened to celebrate 50 episodes of the podcast.

TRACK LISTING :

Trad. Arr. Stephen Sametz - Gaudete

Chanticleer

Peter Warlock - The Rich Cavalcade

Allegri Singers / Louis Halsey

John Rutter - What Sweeter Music

Tenebrae / Nigel Short

Juan Frances de Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Ana Beard-Fernandez - soprano / Nicholas Mulroy - tenor

Joanna Marsh - In Winter’s House

Gesualdo Six

J.S.Bach - Kyrie 2 & Gloria from Lutheran Mass in F BWV

Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh

With thanks to Voces8 and Standard Deviation for etymology and semantic jingles!

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Singing and the menopause

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 06:00:19 GMT

Charlotte Mobbs and Dr. Jenevora Williams are back to talk to Eamonn about how the menopause affects singing. A REALLY USEFUL episode. [See also 3 eps back: ''Everything you wish you’d known about hormones and the voice"]

TRACK LISTING:

Vivaldi - Gloria: Gloria in excelsis

Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi / Richard Vendome

Trio Bulgarka - Nauchil Sai Dobri

Tim Lea Young - Three Wings

Voice Trio

Joni Mitchel - Both Sides Now

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The Fast Show

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 06:00:02 GMT

Are we all a teeny weeny bit obsessed with slow-moving choral music? Isn't it fun to sing something fast? Robert and Sammy go for a short ride in a fast choral machine, with the help of Stef Conner, Joanna Marsh, Roderick Williams, Cheryl Frances-Hoade and Bernard Hughes.

TRACK LISTING :

(mostly 'sections from')

Monteverdi - Io mi son giovinetta

Consort of Musicke / Anthony Rooley

Flintstones Theme tune

Arr. & performed / Jacob Collier

Poulenc - Marie

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Britten - Let Nimrod (from 'Rejoice in the Lamb')

Tippett - The Windhover

Finzi Singers / Paul Spicer

Ravel - Ronde

Ensemble Vocal Philippe Caillard

Vaughan-Williams - Over hill, over dale

Swingle II

Daniel-Lesur - Le Songe

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Byrd - Vigilate

Voces8

Machaut - Amen from Gloria (Messe de Notre Dame)

Hilliard Ensemble

Robert Heppener - Del iubilo del core

Netherlands Chamber Choir / Heppener

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Forever blowing bubbles

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:00:30 GMT

Robert and Eamonn finally meet and talk: commissioning, a South African project 25 years on and at the National Youth Girls Choir course introduce Carris Jones (the first female back row singer at St Paul's Cathedral) and Joanna Tomlinson. Also why you should blow bubbles into your drinks after all.

TRACK LISTING :

Monkitsi Seoketsa - uJehova

I Fagiolini / SDASA Chorale

Mendelssohn - Hear my prayer

St.Paul's Cathedral Choir and choristers from over the UK / Andrew Carwood (dir) / Nathaniel Morley (treble)

Patrick Gowers - Viri Galilaei (final section)

Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge / Stephen Layton (dir) / Harrison Cole (organ)

Joanna Marsh - A short story of falling

National Youth Girls Choir of GB / Joanna Tomlinson (dir) / Michael Higgins (piano)

David Bednall - Lux orta est iusto

Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader

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Everything you wish you’d known about hormones and the voice

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 05:00:31 GMT

Robert talks to vocal coach / young voice specialists Charlotte Mobbs and Dr Jenevora Williams about physical and mental issues facing young females as they go through puberty and voice development.

TRACK LISTING :

Carole King - (You make me feel like) A Natural Woman

Aretha Franklin

Gustav Holst - Ave Maria

National Youth Training Choir / Greg Beardsall

Vivaldi - Salve Regina

Mhairi Lawson - soprano, La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler

The Blooming Heather Arr. Esther Jones / Rachel Staunton

National Youth Girls' Choir of Great Britain

Lucy Joy Morris (Violin), Dan Moriyama (Piano) Esther Jones (Conductor)

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Byrdland or 'Nobody wants a flowery organ voluntary'

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 05:00:12 GMT

Nicholas goes to St Paul's Cathedral to talk to master of the choristers Andrew Carwood and Byrd scholar Dr Katie Bank (of Byrd Central) about their passion for William Byrd's music. Is Peter Phillips right? Do audiences like Tallis while singers prefer Byrd?

TRACK LISTING :

Byrd - Fantasia BK62 (excerpt)

Christian Wilson, organ

Byrd - Lord, in they wrath, correct me not

Alamire / David Skinner

Byrd - Magnificat (excerpt) from The Great Service

Odyssean Ensemble / Colm Carey Christian Wilson, organ

Byrd - Infelix Ego (last section)

The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood

Byrd - Ad Dominum cum tribularer (2nd half)

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Byrd - O salutaris hostia a6

Marian Consort / Rory McCleery

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Benevoli Benevola

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 05:00:00 GMT

A rather tired Robert and Nicholas chat with Julia Doyle immediately after sessions for a premiere recording of a fabulous four-choir mass from 17th century Rome. [Recorded July 1st]

TRACK LISTING:

Orazio Benevoli – Missa Tu es Petrus (Various sections) - I Fagiolini / Hollingworth

Orazio Benevoli – Missa Si Deus pro nobis (two excerpts) - Le concert spirituel / Hervé Niquet

Bonifazio Graziani – Domine, ne in furore tuo - I Fagiolini: Rebecca Lea, Julia Doyle, Frederick Long

Bonifazio Graziani – Iustus ut palma (excerpt) - I Fagiolini / Hollingworth

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Meet Robert Quinney and Ellie Stamp

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 05:00:56 GMT

Meet Robert Quinney, director of music at New College, Oxford: also young professional singer Ellie Stamp. Thomas Guthrie, Nicholas Mulroy and Robert Hollingworth continue to muse on creativity and STUFF.

TRACK LISTING:

Howells - Magnificat from New College service

New College Choir, Robert Quinney

Deborah Pritchard - Nunc Dimittis from New College Service

New College Choir, Robert Quinney

Leighton - excerpt from God's Grandeur (I Fagiolini)

Theme tune to Bod

Derek Griffiths

John Blow - Mourn for thy servant

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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We need to talk about directors

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 05:00:44 GMT

An improbable sixth season begins with an oblique response to the recent John Eliot Gardiner incident. Singer/opera director Thomas Guthrie joins Nicholas Mulroy and Robert Hollingworth to mull things over. In New York, Nicholas talks to director Aria Umezawa and singer Isaiah T Bell with an alternative view on hierarchy in the rehearsal room. Also featuring a thrilling new mini-series: 'In the car with Martha McLorinan'.

TRACK LISTING:

Porpora - Come nave in mezzo all'onde

Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino armonico, Giovanni Antonini

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More with ’The Youth’

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:00:43 GMT

Robert drops in on the Sixteen’s Genesis 16 programme for young choral singers and talks to the singers and grumpy old Eamonn, and the ep ends with an interview with Sarah Latto of Echo Vocal Ensemble, former G16 and now running her own choral groups.

TRACK LISTING :

Trad. arr. Gustav Holst - I love my love

Genesis 16 / Eamonn Dougan (in rehearsal)

William Byrd - Ne irascaris, Domine

The Sixteen / Harry Christophers

Samuel Barber - The Coolin’

Genesis 16 / Olivia Shotton (in rehearsal)

Trad. arr. Undine Smith Moore - Daniel, Daniel

Echo Vocal Ensemble / Sarah Latto

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Eamonn and the third agers

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:00:42 GMT

Eamonn is running a singing course in Italy with some older singers who have a post-Covid perspective on singing in choirs. Lots of interesting technical tips in this one plus lovely and unfamiliar late 16th century Italian music.

TRACK LISTING :

Luca Marenzio - Iniquos odio habui

The Sixteen / Eamonn Dougan

Claudio Monteverdi - T'amo, mia vita’

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Luca Marenzio - Magnificat a 8

The Choir of King’s College Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury

Asprillio Pacelli - Christus resurgens

The Sixteen / Eamonn Dougan

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Boys' Voices

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 05:00:27 GMT

While we all enjoy the musicianship and the inevitably brief treble career of Malakai Bayoh, Nicholas talks to Scott Price, Director of Music at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial [state] School, London, and Anita Morrison, who has taught boys (brilliantly) at London Oratory School, St John's Cambridge, Westminster Cathedral and St George's Chapel Windsor. Fascinating insights throughout the programme and will surely inspire more programmes on similar subjects.

TRACK LISTING :

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Pie Jesu

Malakai Bayoh - treble / Scott Price

Orlandus Lassus - Resonet in laudibus (outer sections)

Schola of London Oratory School / Charles Cole

Owain Park - Cradle Lullaby

Schola of Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School / Scott Price

Zita Silva - harp / Oliver Smith - treble

William Harris - Bring us, O Lord God

St George's Chapel, Windsor / James Vivian

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Back in the saddle

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMT

Robert and Nicholas meet up after a few weeks off to mispronounce Norwegian (twice), talk Monteverdi (again) and to 'get Marian' with Victoria (natch) Song of Songs and Cecilia McDowall.

Te' Jondalen Og Fri

Trad.etter Ivar T.Dahl / Agnes Buen Garnds Arr.Henrik Ødegaard / Grete P.Helgerød

Oslo Chamber Choir / Grete Pedersen

Cecilia McDowall - There is no rose

The Oxford Choir / Ben Parry

Claudio Monteverdi - Vuoi vi doleste (L'Orfeo Act V)

Marc Mauillon (Orfeo), Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall

Tomás Luis de Victoria - Vadam et circuibo

Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly

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Spring!

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 05:00:03 GMT

Sammy (they've given up calling him Nicholas), Eamonn & Robert blow away the cobwebs to welcome in music for SPRING. Lili Boulanger, Guillaume de Machaut, Caroline Shaw, Peter Warlock and Monteverdi (not Zefiro torna either) - with the Carice Singers, Gabrieli Consort, Gothic Voices, The 24 (Uni of York), Orpheus Vokale Ensemble and Concerto Italiano.

Lili Boulanger - Hymne au soleil

Orpheus Vokale Ensemble / Michael Alber

Antoni Baryshevskyi - piano

Carus

Claudio Monteverdi - O primavera, gioventù de l'anno

Concerto Italiano - Rinaldo Alessandrini

Naive

Herbert Howells - The summer is coming

Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh

Signum

Guillaume de Machaut - Rose, liz, printemps

Gothic Voices / Christopher Page

Hyperion

Caroline Shaw - And the swallow

The 24 / Robert Hollingworth

Concert recording

Peter Warlock - All the flowers of the spring

Carice Singers / George Parris

Naxos

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Bach Passions - Part 2

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:00:13 GMT

The second of two programmes in which Eamonn and Nicholas consider J.S.Bach's two Passion settings.

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#WeAreTheBBCSingers

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:47:02 GMT

Emergency ep: Eamonn and Robert dip their toes into the dizzying breadth of repertoire of The BBC Singers. Could be a useful introduction to decision makers that don't know the group that well... Music by Ravel, Boulez, Gabriela Lena Frank, Laura Mvula, Brumel and Bernard Hughes. #WeAreTheBBCSingers

TRACK LISTING:

Pierre Boulez - Le soleil des eaux (part of No.2 La Sorgue) / Phyllis Bryn-Julson, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Antoine Brumel - Sicut lilum / BBC Singers, Robert Hollingworth

Maurice Ravel arr.Clytus Gottwald - Soupir / BBC Singers, Robert Hollingworth

Gabriela Lena Frank - (section from) Jalapeño Blues / BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin

Bernard Hughes - Precious things (sections) / BBC Singers, Eamonn Dougan

Laura Mvula - Sing to the moon / BBC Singers

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Bach Passions - Part 1

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT

The first of two programmes in which Eamonn and Nicholas consider J.S.Bach's two Passion settings.

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Music for LENT ('slow' in French / 'fast' in English)

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 06:00:44 GMT

Eamonn, Nicholas and Robert trawl some mostly unusual repertoire for Lent and Holy Week.

Giovanni Croce - Mascarate da Furlani (1590)

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Dawn Walters - Pro dolorosa Eius passione (2021)

Swan Consort / Anita Datta

Poulenc - Vinea mea electa (1938)

Bavarian Radio Chorus / Peter Dijkstra

Rocío Jurado - La Saeta al Cristo de Los Gitanos

Ernst Krenek - from Lamentatio Jeremiæ Prophetæ, Op. 93 (1941)

RIAS Kammerchor, Berlin / Marcus Creed

Cristobal de Morales - Agnus Dei from Missa Mille Regretz (1536)

De Profundis / Robert Hollingworth

Cecila McDowall - The Lord is good (2012)

Sospiri / Christopher Watson

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Playing with Purcell (in Norway)

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:00:00 GMT

In a Norway as snowy as 'The Cold Scene' from King Arthur, Robert and new regular presenter Nicholas Mulroy work with friend and violinist, Bjarte Eike - the creative playboy behind Barokksolistene and The Alehouse Boys - and find that play has a serious place in music-making.

Purcell - Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens) - The Alehouse Sessions / Barokksolistene

Purcell - Hole in the wall (Abdelazar) - The Alehouse Sessions / Barokksolistene

Playford - Wallom Green - The Alehouse Sessions / Barokksolistene

Purcell - Ah Belinda - Dido and Aeneas - Catherine Bott / Academy of Ancient Music

Purcell - Urge me no more - Anna Dennis (Stour Music Live)

Monteverdi - Zefiro torna (a 2) - SWEET TORMENT Nicholas Mulroy / Nicholas Hurndall Smith

Monteverdi - Zefiro torna (a 5) - SWEET TORMENT / I Fagiolini

Monteverdi - Volgendo il ciel - FLAMING HEART / I Fagiolini

Anon - Haul away, Jo - The Alehouse Sessions / Barokksolistene

Castello - Sonata in D minor - Monteverdi: The Other Vespers - Bjarte Eike, Lynda Sayce, Robert Hollingworth

Purcell - Adagio & Glittering Queen - The Playhouse Sessions / Barokksolistene

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A morning in York

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:00:00 GMT

In the space of a single morning but several coffees in York, Robert meets Roderick Williams the night after he premieres a new version of Dichterliebe in English, T.J.Callahan to find out what Shape Note singing is, and asks singing teacher Susan Young what three things she thinks choral conductors would benefit from knowing.

TRACKLISTING -

Schubert - 'A stormy morning'

Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn

Schubert - 'The Linden Tree'

Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn

'Schenectady'

The Tudor Choir

Conductor - Doug Fullington

Handel - 'Praise The Lord' (Solomon)

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Conductor - Paul McCreesh

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Phew - made it....

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:00:09 GMT

Robert and Eamonn just about made it through the autumn - even a brief encounter in Dublin - and chat through recent times, looking forward to 2023. After lockdowns and the post-crisis desperation for work, has anything changed? Music by Kim Porter, Thea Musgrave, Judith Weir, H.Diack Johnstone, Monteverdi and some 16th century pluckers. Performances by Chamber Choir Ireland, National Youth Choir of Scotland, Bath Camerata, New College, Oxford, I Fagiolini (and José Feliciano).

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Churros Angelorum

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 06:00:50 GMT

In a little square somewhere in southern Spain, Robert and Nicholas Mulroy enjoy Spanish music and Spanish food, remember good teachers, think about Leonardo da Vinci - and some interesting words (incl. Marmalade and Guadalquivir). Warning: INCLUDES CASTANETS.

TRACK LIST:

Anon: Tres morillas - Aliki Kagialoglou

Anon: Su, su, su, su - Cantoría

Josquin: Agnus Dei III from Missa L’homme armé sexti toni (extract) - I Fagiolini

Victoria: Alma Redemptoris mater - Chanticleer

Victoria: Iudas mercator pessimus (extract) - Westminster Cathedral Choir

Da Flecha: La Bomba (extract) - I Fagiolini

Iribarren: Xácara de Navidad - I Fagiolini & Brecon Baroque

J.S.Bach: Nun komm der Heiden heiland (1st movt) - I Fagiolini & Brecon Baroque

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Away with the Fagies

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 06:00:05 GMT

...or 'Eight go to Düsseldorf'. British vocal groups give concerts all over continental Europe all the time. This is a little story about what it's really like to be on one of these trips: I Fagiolini singing at the 'Herne Early Music Days' in Germany on November 20th, 2022. Spinal Tap, eat your heart out.

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Tea with Alastair Hume - An original King's Singer

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:48:41 GMT

Robert talks to one of the original King's Singers that sang for the group's first 25 years. Countertenor 2 Alastair Hume throws light on those heady days, prime-time TV appearances, the glam (or not) of touring, (singing outdoors under corrugated iron in Darwin Australia but in full tails) and chooses some favourite moments. A happy listen - and a particularly English one (if that's ok with everyone else?)

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The Parents

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:00:47 GMT

Helped by a glass of whisky, Robert and Eamonn reflect on their parents' love of music and how that affected them. Music by Flanders & Swann, S.S.Wesley, Victoria, Victoria (de los Angeles) and Byrd.

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Robert meets THE YOUTH

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 05:00:04 GMT

How do you start some sort of a career in (choral) singing? Robert meets seven young'uns who have been in the UK business from a few months to a few years and hear their take on it all. Their musical choices range from Caroline Shaw, Bax and weird 17th century polyphony to groups such as Roomful of Teeth, Poeme Harmonique and the Finzi Singers. Recorded on location in Lucca, Italy, the Young Ones are Alice Beverley, Ailsa Campbell, Robin Datta, Alistair Donaghue, Solomon Hayes, Ellie Stamp and Dominic Wallis.)

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Autumn Lieds

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 05:00:23 GMT

Eamonn and Robert are back to chew the choral cud - this week about autumnal projects. Music by James MacMillan, Billiam Wyrd, Joanna Marsh, Eoghan Desmond - and J.S.Bach in absolute rip-roaring form: why isn't the Gloria from his F Major Lutheran Mass available on the NHS? Performances by The Sixteen, I Fagiolini, Fretwork and the Gabrieli Consort & Players.

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Disgusting Rucksack

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:00:15 GMT

Robert and Eamonn do lazy Poulenc, angry Monteverdi, fizzy Bach and remember a Whitacre moment. Also salad - but why the disgusting rucksack? Featuring The Sixteen, Polyphony and I Fagiolini.

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Stour Music

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 05:00:13 GMT

Robert gets out and about, visiting an old flint church in a Kent field on the Pilgrims' Way, with a history of singers (Deller x 2), early music, a puddings fixation and 10 Midsummer concerts. A feast from The City Musick, Fieri Consort, Swingles, the Rameau Project, Marian Consort and the four natural trumpets of Spiritato.

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Rachel Joy Staunton

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:00:40 GMT

'Tenors and basses - would anyone like to conduct?' Ouch. Meet Rachel Staunton, director of London Youth Choirs. Inclusive by nature: also keen to espouse the chip butty (non-UK listeners, apologies). Inspiring episode and a must for anyone who in interested in what choirs could be and mean!

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Nicholas Mulroy

Mon, 30 May 2022 05:00:44 GMT

'And I believe you were once arrested in Ecuador...' Meet tenor Nicholas Mulroy - Monteverdi and Bach specialist but so very much more: the soul of many I Fagiolini projects, thinker about art, assistant director of the Dunedin Consort but with strong musical interests in South America. A joyful episode.

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Cecilia McDowall

Mon, 16 May 2022 05:01:33 GMT

Coming late to (professional) composition, Cecilia McDowall is now one of the most prominent composers of the UK music scene, particularly well known in choral circles but with more plans for the future than seems decent. Meet her and hear some quite haunting pieces, with performances by The Sixteen, Sospiri, Susanna Fairbairn, Cleveland Chamber Choir and Eamonn himself...

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Oddi e soddi

Sun, 01 May 2022 23:01:55 GMT

Eamonn and Robert enjoy piercing Rubbra, Bertolusi and Monteverdi - can that dissonance really be right? We finally get to hear Eamonn singing (Purcell) and another top hit from the Vox album. Also, who is Julia Donk?

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An 'unknown' French masterwork

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 08:34:42 GMT

Robert's favourite piece of 20th century choral music is 'Les Cantiques des cantiques' (The Song of Songs) by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur from 1952. It's a 12-voice tapestry of choral sensualité that takes your breath away. Eamonn and Robert introduce it and ask why it's not more performed. (Spoiler: current time-sensitive discount offer on buying the scores at the end!)

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Pastorals New

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:03 GMT

Eamonn and Robert talk about two new albums: I Fagiolini's 'Draw on sweet night' of John Wilbye madrigals and The Sixteen's 'An Old Belief', featuring Parry's 'Songs of Farewell'.

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Catching Up

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 01:00:02 GMT

Robert and Eamonn finally meet in the same room for Choral Chihuahua, discuss recent things and play favourite tracks.

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Carolyn Sampson

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 06:00:01 GMT

No hyperbole required: simply meet one of the most fabulous sopranos around, and if you're not swayed by her semiquavers in the first minute of the programme, press button B and get your money back.

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RECORDING (Side B)

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 06:00:32 GMT

The chat continues with some of the good things that recordings can enable - but how far should you go in embracing technology? With music by Luca Marenzio, Olivier Messiaen, Giovanni Gabrieli, Alessandro Striggio, Handel, Haydn, Adrian Williams.

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RECORDING (Side A)

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:01:41 GMT

The non-intrepid trio discuss the how, the where and above all the why of recordings. Wouldn't we all be better off doing a concert?

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The one-to-a-part bug

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:00:15 GMT

Regular hosts Robert and Eamonn with guest Clare Wilkinson talk about one-to-a-part singing, their top tracks and moments and why it's not just a small choir.

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Roderick Williams OBE

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:32:48 GMT

Composer, opera and lieder singer, ex-Fagiolino, he fell into the choral cauldron when small.

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On Tour

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:00:41 GMT

Harry, Robert and Eamonn chat about the highs and lows of touring, the food, the unforgettable onstage moments and 'the call of shame'.

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Mary King

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 05:30:01 GMT

Meet Mary King - polymath of the singing world: fearless singer of contemporary roles, ex-member of the Clerkes of Oxenford, vocal coach and the ACTUAL inventor of 'Eamonn's' phrase 'inner chihuahua'.

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Matthew Brook

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:30:38 GMT

A Fagiolino and Sixteener now turned soloist, much loved by audiences, hear the warm-hearted Matthew discuss everything from preparation, attitude and terrible giggling.

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The V Word

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:00:57 GMT

Vibrato in choral music - very out of fashion, everyone has a view: hear Robert, Eamonn and Harry's.

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Whither Chihuahua

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 05:00:54 GMT

It's time time to get technical... join Robert, Eamonn and Harry in Part One of Whither Chihuahua: a two-episode deep dive into choral technique.

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Sir James MacMillan

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:00:55 GMT

Sir James MacMillan, one of the world's finest living composers of sacred music, is interviewed by Harry and Eamonn, two conductors who know his music from the inside out.

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When Sally Met Harry

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 05:00:48 GMT

Our first Chihuahua guest: a singer / practical scholar who has sung early choral music at professional level since the 1970s - the quiet legend that is Sally Dunkley.

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The Spem Episode

Mon, 25 May 2020 05:59:23 GMT

Thomas Tallis' motet 'Spem in alium' for 40 separate parts is a piece every singer of early choral music knows and has stories about. Harry, Robert and Eamonn have recorded it as singers and conductors and give us their take on this infamous monster of Tudor polyphony.

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Opening bars

Mon, 04 May 2020 19:33:18 GMT

Eamonn talks to Harry and Robert about how they started their own ensembles - The Sixteen and I Fagiolini.

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