CHORAL CHIHUAHUA

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 ...

11 Okt 202252min

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:...

27 Sep 202245min

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.Support t...

11 Juli 202249min

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 feas...

27 Juni 202249min

'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)....

13 Juni 202251min

'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, assist...

30 Maj 20221h 2min

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 futu...

16 Maj 20221h 4min

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, w...

1 Maj 202251min