CHORAL CHIHUAHUA

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 LINKSMonteverdi - Volgea l'anima mia / La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina; Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/5UrdSHZvhMRkuDGqi0q5y5?si=d09e867cc16842a9Grieg - Foraarsregn / Sigmund Hjelset / Per Vollestad; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oVWjtWBernard Hughes - Perhaps / The Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4hSHealGuerrero - Ave Virgo sanctissima / The Marian Consort / Rory McCleery; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3JMTDjB

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 LINKSArvo Pärt - Stabat Mater / SANSARA / Fretwork / Tom Herring; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49h8UDyRobert Heppener - Del iubilo del core che esce in voce / Netherlands Chamber ChoirJS Bach - Der Gerechte kommt um, BWV deest / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3JcskPr

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 LINKSHandel - Acis and Galatea : Act II "The flocks shall leave the mountains" / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/46PP3dbHandel - Messiah : "He Was Despised" / Dunedin Consort / John Butt / Clare Wilkinson; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/48K080PThomas Arne - Rosamunde : "Rise, Glory, Rise" / Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood / Dame Emma Kirkby - Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3VYuODQ

Ahead of The Cumnock Tryst, Eamonn is joined by Sir James MacMillan and Taylor Scott Davis to talk composition and community choirs. MUSIC LINKSTaylor Scott Davis - Magnificat anima mea / VOCES8, Barnaby Smith; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4nrSVabStephen Paulus - The Road Home / Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4mGAuNFAlfred 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/42CKdNZJames MacMillan - When You See the Millions of the Mouthless Dead / The Elysian Singers, Sam Laughton; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/46qlmPA

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.

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

Eamonn has been working in Sydney, Australia and managed to grab a chat with Brett Weymark and Elizabeth Scott of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.MUSIC LINKSRoss Edwards - Mountain Chant II - Crooked Mountains / University of New Hampshire Chamber Singers, William KempsterRalph Vaughan Williams -"A Sea Symphony" / London Synphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Hickox; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3IgMUgELuke Byrne - Desert Sea / Gondwana Chorale, Carl Crossan 

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 LINKSOrlando Gibbons - O Clap Your Hands / VOCES8; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4498T0bEdward 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