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Choral chat with Robert Hollingworth and Eamonn Dougan

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.
Latest Episode11/25/2022

Away with the Fagies

Season 3, Ep. 5
...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.
11/25/2022

Away with the Fagies

Season 3, Ep. 5
...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.
11/10/2022

Tea with Alastair Hume - An original King's Singer

Season 3, Ep. 4
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?)
10/25/2022

The Parents

Season 3, Ep. 3
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.
10/11/2022

Robert meets THE YOUTH

Season 3, Ep. 2
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.)
9/27/2022

Autumn Lieds

Season 3, Ep. 1
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.
7/11/2022

Disgusting Rucksack

Season 2, Ep. 23
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.
6/27/2022

Stour Music

Season 2, Ep. 22
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.