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20/11/2016

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents coverage of the Category Finals stage of Choir of the Year 2016, focusing on the Children's category. Plus choral music by pupils of Nadia Boulanger.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces coverage of Choir Of The Year's Children's Category Finals. Plus, choral music by pupils of the great French composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, including Copland, Quincy Jones, Roy Harris and Astor Piazzolla. Our Meet My Choir this week is the North Kingston Choir from Kingston-upon-Thames, whilst Sara's Choral Classic is Brahms's Geistliches Lied.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 20 Nov 2016 16:00

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Music Played

  • Amanda Doak

    Danny Boy

  • Johannes Brahms arr. John Eliot Gardiner

    Geistliches Lied

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem)

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Choir: Paris Orchestra Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie.
    • EMI : CDC-747342-2.
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • Aaron Copland

    Simple Gifts & I Bought Me a Cat (Old American Songs)

    Orchestra: Elgin S O. Conductor: Robert Hanson. Choir: St Charles Singers.
    • Naxos 8559297.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Psalme 24 'Le terre appartient a l'Eternel'

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS : 9745-.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.
  • Anna Silver & Rod Spencer

    Get on Board this Train

  • Amanda Doak

    Danny Boy

  • Jane Silvester

    Cold Tractor & Tractor Ride & Ride Home (Seven Songs Home)

  • Jane Silvester

    Streetseller

  • Roy Harris

    Songs for All Seas, All Ships (Symphony for Voices on poems of Walt Whitman)

    Choir: St Louis Chamber Chorus. Conductor: Philip Barnes.
    • REGENT REGCD414.
    • REGENT.
    • 11.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Damigella tutta bella (Sei scherzo musicali, 1607)

    Singer: Flore Wend. Singer: Nancy Waugh. Singer: Doda Conrad. Orchestra: Nadia Boulanger. Conductor: Nadia Boulanger.
    • BRUNSWICK AXTL 1051 3.
    • BRUNSWICK.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms arr. John Eliot Gardiner

    Geistliches Lied

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
  • Astor Piazzolla & The Swingle Singers

    Libertango

    • World Village : WV450025.
    • World Village.
    • 11.

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  • Sun 20 Nov 2016 16:00

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