CHORAL CHIHUAHUA

The Finzi episode

Eamonn is joined by Nick Pritchard to talk Finzi. Bumper ep with lots of quality chat and choons!! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/choral-chihuahua. Hoste

A little drinkie with Robert & Eamonn

Robert & Eamonn catch up and mostly try to order drinks but discuss French food, Berio, James MacMillan and tonic water. Music by Kerensa Briggs, Kenneth Leighton and Mon

Double Doyle and Trouble

Eamonn talks to brother and sister Justin and Julia Doyle (Donk) about their path to conducting and singing, the importance for a soprano of learning the spoons and the w

Isn't Monteverdi brilliant?

Robert and Nicholas talk about Monteverdi, in a pub garden. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/choral-chihuahua. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m

Bruno Turner

Remembering Bruno Turner. Eamonn talks to Andrew Vanderbeek, Sally Dunkley, Mark Brown and Robert about this pioneering publisher and performer of Renaissance Music who d

Pershore Abbey

Robert enjoys coffee, doesn't enjoy a sandwich and talks to Fagiolini singers on his way to Worcestershire. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/choral-chihuahua

Jonas Rasmussen

Eamonn meets conductor, composer and creator Jonas Rasmussen (aka, @choirconductor on Instagram etc)... and they also gatecrash an I Fagiolini rehearsal. Support this sh

CAKE AND BENEVOLI

Robert talks to Eamonn and tracks down Sammy to reflect on I Fagiolini's series of THREE albums by the 17th century multi-choir master Orazio Benevoli. Support this show

Episode 100

Robert, Eamonn and Catherine, Robert's 'French baroque wife', talk Morales, Charpentier and wildly dramatic Schubert. Performances by De Profundis, Le Concert Spirituel a

Singers v Conductors

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.

National Youth Choir of Scotland and memories of Berty Rice

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

The truth about False Relations (2)

Spem, Howells and the Tallis googly. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/choral-chihuahua. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The truth about False Relations (1)

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,

Clare Stevens - Choral Music journalist

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

From Persian lands afar

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

A Christmas Episode

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

It’s beginning to feel…

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

Our Man in Oz - Part 2

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 Devel

The Breakfast Show

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 Pä

Introducing Susannah Cibber

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.