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 Joanna Marsh. 

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

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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 of Snow / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oYvoOT

Richard Rodney Bennett - A Good-Night / Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4rmFHxQ

The Nineteenth Night of December - Sun Keting / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49vzU2m

David McGregor - Ariadne / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49CmIca

Cheryl Frances-Hoad - The Core of Time / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oUPlpr

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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 LINKS

Monteverdi - Volgea l'anima mia / La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina; Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/5UrdSHZvhMRkuDGqi0q5y5?si=d09e867cc16842a9

Grieg - Foraarsregn / Sigmund Hjelset / Per Vollestad; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oVWjtW

Bernard Hughes - Perhaps / The Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4hSHeal

Guerrero - Ave Virgo sanctissima / The Marian Consort / Rory McCleery; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3JMTDjB

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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 Pärt - Stabat Mater / SANSARA / Fretwork / Tom Herring; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49h8UDy

Robert Heppener - Del iubilo del core che esce in voce / Netherlands Chamber Choir

JS Bach - Der Gerechte kommt um, BWV deest / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3JcskPr

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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 LINKS

Handel - Acis and Galatea : Act II "The flocks shall leave the mountains" / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/46PP3db

Handel - Messiah : "He Was Despised" / Dunedin Consort / John Butt / Clare Wilkinson; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/48K080P

Thomas Arne - Rosamunde : "Rise, Glory, Rise" / Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood / Dame Emma Kirkby - Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3VYuODQ

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Ahead of The Cumnock Tryst, Eamonn is joined by Sir James MacMillan and Taylor Scott Davis to talk composition and community choirs. 

MUSIC LINKS

Taylor Scott Davis - Magnificat anima mea / VOCES8, Barnaby Smith; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4nrSVab

Stephen Paulus - The Road Home / Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4mGAuNF

Alfred 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/42CKdNZ

James MacMillan - When You See the Millions of the Mouthless Dead / The Elysian Singers, Sam Laughton; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/46qlmPA

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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.

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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

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Eamonn has been working in Sydney, Australia and managed to grab a chat with Brett Weymark and Elizabeth Scott of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.

MUSIC LINKS

Ross Edwards - Mountain Chant II - Crooked Mountains / University of New Hampshire Chamber Singers, William Kempster

Ralph Vaughan Williams -"A Sea Symphony" / London Synphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Hickox; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/3IgMUgE

Luke Byrne - Desert Sea / Gondwana Chorale, Carl Crossan 

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