A Christian service performed on only three days of the year: just before Easter, focussing on the darkness of life without Christ. Insightful chat from Sammy, Robert and (finally) Eamonn with brilliant performances from I Fagiolini (Victoria), Tenebrae (Gesualdo), Les Arts Florissants (Couperin), Trinity Cambridge (Poulenc) and Gesualdo Six (Joanna Ward).

TRACKS : (1) Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tenebrae Responsories: Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday, Nocturn III; I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3x2X5zW (2) Carlo Gesualdo - Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday, First Nocturn: Tristis est anima mea; Tenebrae / Nigel Short - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3Tpn3Fb (3) François Couperin - Troisième Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint; Les Arts Florissants / William Christie - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4a0L4JO (4) Francis Poulenc - 4 Motets pour un temps de pénitence, FP 97; The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge / Stephen Layton - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3Tmf2kh (5) Joanna Ward - Christus factus est; The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/494d0Lo 

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Revd Canon Dr Victoria Johnson - outgoing precentor at York Minster and incoming to St John's College Cambridge - gives Sammy and Robert some context on Lent while they listen to plangent and powerful tracks by Dobrinka Tabakova, Buxtehude, Tallis (natch) and Bairstow. (THIS EPISODE DOES NOT CONTAIN JAMES MACMILLAN'S MISERERE. BUT IT SHOULD.)

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TRACKS : (1) Edward Bairstow - The Lamentations; The Choir of York Minster / Philip Moore - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3TrCyxI (2) Thomas Tallis - Lamentations of Jeremiah; Aperi Animam / Daniel Koplitz (3) Dietrich Buxtehude - Membra Jesu Nostri (excerpt); Ricercar Consort / Philippe Pierlot - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3Peeb4a (4) Dobrinka Tabakova - Turn Our Captivity, O Lord; The Sixteen / Harry Christophers - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3V9JGQs

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Robert tries to understand where singing and music are in schools in 2024 and gets a summary from Tim Burnage on how things have changed. He talks to Thomas Leech, director of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme and we also hear from Eamonn in Dublin on a new initiative run by Chamber Choir Ireland.

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TRACKS : (1) John Sheppard - In pace (extract); Leeds Cathedral Girls Choir and Scholars / Thomas Leech (2) Plainchant: Alleluia tollite jugum (extract); Leeds Cathedral Senior Girls' Choir / Thomas Leech (3) Thomas Tallis - Loquebantur variis linguis; Leeds Cathedral Girls Choir and Scholars / Members of The Sixteen / Harry Christophers (4) Fintan O’Carroll - Suantrái ár Slánaitheora; Chamber Choir Ireland / Paul Hillier - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/48xV8s1 (5) Levente Gyöngyösi - Ubi caritas; Pro Musica - Szabó Dénes - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3uMVopp

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Clare Wilkinson, Sammy and Robert chat about what matters when singing or listening to polyphony - mostly in Renaissance music but relevant more widely. Some good tips in this one for singers - and even conductors!

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TRACKS : (1) William Byrd - Mass for Three Voices: V. Agnus Dei; The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/498J41K (2) Jacobus Clemens non Papa - Ego Flos Campi; Henry's Eight - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3waLIp7 (3) Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur - Le cantique des cantiques: II. La voix du bien-aimé; I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth https://apple.co/3HVwDKO

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...or IMPENDING DOOM. Nicholas has an actually very light-hearted chat with Ellie Slorach of Kantos Chamber Choir and Harry Bradford of Recordare about the journey with their young choirs so far, while Robert tries to remember what it felt like back in 1986 with I Fagiolini...

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TRACKS : (1) Gustav Holst - I Love My Love; Recordare / Harry Bradford - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/4baLizc (2) Rebecca Dale - Materna Requiem: 10. In paradisum: If I Should Go; Kantos Chamber Choir / Clark Rundell - Listen on Apple Music https://apple.co/3S82uwf (3) Lisa Robertson - To Tell It Like It Is; NYCGB Fellowship / Ben Parry https://apple.co/3ScwIOG

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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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