
37 episodes

CHORAL CHIHUAHUA Choral Chihuahua
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4.8 • 62 Ratings
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Choral Chihuahua is a podcast in which British choral directors chat about things that matter to them: composers they love, points of technique, classic but also niche choral works, other groups and singers they admire. With a light touch, Eamonn Dougan, Robert Hollingworth and now also Nicholas Mulroy chew the choral cud about how (and why) you do it and what they've learnt along the way. Choral Chihuahua is brought to you by I Fagiolini and University of York Music and produced by Polyphonic Films. It's supported through your donations and I Fagiolini Charitable Trust.
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Spring!
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
The second of two programmes in which Eamonn and Nicholas consider J.S.Bach's two Passion settings.
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#WeAreTheBBCSingers
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
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)
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)
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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Customer Reviews
A “must listen” for choral singers/enthusiasts
Very entertaining with lots of wonderful stories and yet full of useful information too. This podcast brings together the vast experience of Harry Christophers, Robert Hollingworth and Eamonn Dougan and includes lots of interesting guests and extracts from many of the great recordings by The Sixteen, I Fagiolini and others.
A wonderful antidote to all the grim news out there at the moment. Thank you Harry, Robert and Eamonn.
A window into another world
I’m firmly rooted in the none-I Fiagolini Factory Records tradition of A certain Ratio / Joy Division. I think that Robert massively underplayed just how cool being a a Factory artist was(albeit the classical artists never got their full deserts).Just checked and cassettes of his album currently £55 on Discogs!
All that said; fascinated, engaged & amused by the amiable & insightful discussions here about music I love but know so little about. Thanks for the insight into a parallel music universe.
‘Chewing the choral cud’
So engaging and witty. A total treat.