We're back! Our spring season ('spring' is a bit 'hopeful' at the moment and also autumn for southern hemisphere listeners) opens with a look at vocal jazz in the cool company of the sextet, STANDARD DEVIATION. Ever tried it yourself and wondered just how it works? Now you can. Robert is joined by Tegan Eldridge, Olivia Hugh-Jones, Nell Norman, Hugh Beckwith, Harry Baker and Tom Lowen.

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TRACK LISTING :

Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home

Oscar Pettiford & Jon Hendricks, arr. Harry Baker

A Red Red Rose

trad./Burns, arr. Edward Randell (ex-Swingle)

I Know You Know

Esperanza Spalding, arr. Aled Walker

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Eamonn, Robert and Sammy finally make it to the same room for mulled wine, mince pies and some intriguing Christmas tracks. Virtual champagne is opened to celebrate 50 episodes of the podcast.

TRACK LISTING :

Trad. Arr. Stephen Sametz - Gaudete

Chanticleer

Peter Warlock - The Rich Cavalcade

Allegri Singers / Louis Halsey

John Rutter - What Sweeter Music

Tenebrae / Nigel Short

Juan Frances de Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Ana Beard-Fernandez - soprano / Nicholas Mulroy - tenor

Joanna Marsh - In Winter’s House

Gesualdo Six

J.S.Bach - Kyrie 2 & Gloria from Lutheran Mass in F BWV

Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh

With thanks to Voces8 and Standard Deviation for etymology and semantic jingles!

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Charlotte Mobbs and Dr. Jenevora Williams are back to talk to Eamonn about how the menopause affects singing. A REALLY USEFUL episode. [See also 3 eps back: ''Everything you wish you’d known about hormones and the voice"]

TRACK LISTING:

Vivaldi - Gloria: Gloria in excelsis

Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi / Richard Vendome

Trio Bulgarka - Nauchil Sai Dobri

Tim Lea Young - Three Wings

Voice Trio

Joni Mitchel - Both Sides Now

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Are we all a teeny weeny bit obsessed with slow-moving choral music? Isn't it fun to sing something fast? Robert and Sammy go for a short ride in a fast choral machine, with the help of Stef Conner, Joanna Marsh, Roderick Williams, Cheryl Frances-Hoade and Bernard Hughes.

TRACK LISTING :

(mostly 'sections from')

Monteverdi - Io mi son giovinetta

Consort of Musicke / Anthony Rooley

Flintstones Theme tune

Arr. & performed / Jacob Collier

Poulenc - Marie

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Britten - Let Nimrod (from 'Rejoice in the Lamb')

Tippett - The Windhover

Finzi Singers / Paul Spicer

Ravel - Ronde

Ensemble Vocal Philippe Caillard

Vaughan-Williams - Over hill, over dale

Swingle II

Daniel-Lesur - Le Songe

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Byrd - Vigilate

Voces8

Machaut - Amen from Gloria (Messe de Notre Dame)

Hilliard Ensemble

Robert Heppener - Del iubilo del core

Netherlands Chamber Choir / Heppener

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Robert and Eamonn finally meet and talk: commissioning, a South African project 25 years on and at the National Youth Girls Choir course introduce Carris Jones (the first female back row singer at St Paul's Cathedral) and Joanna Tomlinson. Also why you should blow bubbles into your drinks after all.

TRACK LISTING :

Monkitsi Seoketsa - uJehova

I Fagiolini / SDASA Chorale

Mendelssohn - Hear my prayer

St.Paul's Cathedral Choir and choristers from over the UK / Andrew Carwood (dir) / Nathaniel Morley (treble)

Patrick Gowers - Viri Galilaei (final section)

Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge / Stephen Layton (dir) / Harrison Cole (organ)

Joanna Marsh - A short story of falling

National Youth Girls Choir of GB / Joanna Tomlinson (dir) / Michael Higgins (piano)

David Bednall - Lux orta est iusto

Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader

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Robert talks to vocal coach / young voice specialists Charlotte Mobbs and Dr Jenevora Williams about physical and mental issues facing young females as they go through puberty and voice development.

TRACK LISTING :

Carole King - (You make me feel like) A Natural Woman

Aretha Franklin

Gustav Holst - Ave Maria

National Youth Training Choir / Greg Beardsall

Vivaldi - Salve Regina

Mhairi Lawson - soprano, La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler

The Blooming Heather Arr. Esther Jones / Rachel Staunton

National Youth Girls' Choir of Great Britain

Lucy Joy Morris (Violin), Dan Moriyama (Piano) Esther Jones (Conductor)

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Nicholas goes to St Paul's Cathedral to talk to master of the choristers Andrew Carwood and Byrd scholar Dr Katie Bank (of Byrd Central) about their passion for William Byrd's music. Is Peter Phillips right? Do audiences like Tallis while singers prefer Byrd?

TRACK LISTING :

Byrd - Fantasia BK62 (excerpt)

Christian Wilson, organ

Byrd - Lord, in they wrath, correct me not

Alamire / David Skinner

Byrd - Magnificat (excerpt) from The Great Service

Odyssean Ensemble / Colm Carey  Christian Wilson, organ

Byrd - Infelix Ego (last section)

The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood

Byrd - Ad Dominum cum tribularer (2nd half)

I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth

Byrd - O salutaris hostia a6

Marian Consort / Rory McCleery

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A rather tired Robert and Nicholas chat with Julia Doyle immediately after sessions for a premiere recording of a fabulous four-choir mass from 17th century Rome. [Recorded July 1st]

TRACK LISTING:

Orazio Benevoli – Missa Tu es Petrus (Various sections) - I Fagiolini / Hollingworth

Orazio Benevoli – Missa Si Deus pro nobis (two excerpts) - Le concert spirituel / Hervé Niquet

Bonifazio Graziani – Domine, ne in furore tuo - I Fagiolini: Rebecca Lea, Julia Doyle, Frederick Long

Bonifazio Graziani – Iustus ut palma (excerpt) - I Fagiolini / Hollingworth

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Meet Robert Quinney, director of music at New College, Oxford: also young professional singer Ellie Stamp. Thomas Guthrie, Nicholas Mulroy and Robert Hollingworth continue to muse on creativity and STUFF.

TRACK LISTING:

Howells - Magnificat from New College service 

New College Choir, Robert Quinney

Deborah Pritchard - Nunc Dimittis from New College Service

New College Choir, Robert Quinney

Leighton - excerpt from God's Grandeur (I Fagiolini)

Theme tune to Bod

Derek Griffiths

John Blow - Mourn for thy servant

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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An improbable sixth season begins with an oblique response to the recent John Eliot Gardiner incident. Singer/opera director Thomas Guthrie joins Nicholas Mulroy and Robert Hollingworth to mull things over. In New York, Nicholas talks to director Aria Umezawa and singer Isaiah T Bell with an alternative view on hierarchy in the rehearsal room. Also featuring a thrilling new mini-series: 'In the car with Martha McLorinan'.

TRACK LISTING:

Porpora - Come nave in mezzo all'onde

Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino armonico, Giovanni Antonini 

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