WWI Choral Commemorations, Berio's Sinfonia
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the latest in the world of choral music, with another of the UK's amateur singing groups in Meet My Choir and Sara's Choral Classic.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the latest in the choral world, including music by Howard Skempton, Hildegard of Bingen and the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet. Sara is joined by Paul Spicer to talk about some of the choral events commemorating the centenary of WW1, including his own Unfinished Remembering, commissioned by the Birmingham Bach Choir. We'll join composer Torsten Rasch in rehearsal for the premiere of A Foreign Field at the Three Choirs Festival. And today's Choral Interviewee is celebrated Welsh mezzo-soprano Della Jones.
In our regular Meet My Choir feature at 4.30pm we spotlight the Lucy Cavendish Singers, and at 5pm Sara's Choral Classic is Berio's Sinfonia.
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Meet My Choir: Lucy Cavendish Singers, Cambridge
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Howard Skempton
2 Poems of Edward Thomas
Choir: Exaudi. Conductor: James Weeks.- Mode Records.
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Cecilia McDowall
Standing as I do before God
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Torsten Rasch
A Foreign Field (extract)
Choir: Three Choirs Festival Chorus.- Rehearsal recording.
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Sir George Dyson
To Music
Choir: Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir. Director: Paul Spicer.- Regent : REGCD274.
- Regent.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Toward the Unknown Region
Choir: CBSO Chorus. Director: Nicholas Cleobury. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Director: Norman Del Mar.- EMI : CDM-5 65131-2.
- EMI.
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Hubert Parry
I was Glad
Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.- Heritage.
- HTGCD217.
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Joseph Parry
Myfanwy
Choir: Morriston Orpheus Choir.- MUSIC FOR PLEASURE : CDMFP 6027.
- MUSIC FOR PLEASURE.
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia - 3rd movement
Ensemble: Electric Phoenix. Director: Terry Edwards. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.- Philips 466 094 2.
- Philips.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata no. 7 BWV.7 (Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Cantatas Vol. 1: City Of London.
- Soli Deo Gloria.
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Hildegard von Bingen
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Choir: Sequentia. Director: Barbara Thornton.- Harmonia Mundi : 05472773202.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Didn't It Rain
Choir: Norfolk Jubilee Singers.- MCA : 3519-20.
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- Sun 6 Jul 2014 16:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
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