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CHORAL CHIHUAHUA
Choral Chihuahua
Frequency: 1 episode/22d. Total Eps: 86

Choral Chihuahua is a podcast in which British choral directors chat about things that matter to them: composers they love, points of technique, classic but also niche choral works, other groups and singers they admire. With a light touch, Eamonn Dougan, Robert Hollingworth and now also Nicholas Mulroy chew the choral cud about how (and why) you do it and what they've learnt along the way. Choral Chihuahua is brought to you by I Fagiolini and University of York Music and produced by Polyphonic Films. It's supported through your donations and I Fagiolini Charitable Trust.
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Eamonn's Partsong Fetish
Season 9 · Episode 1
lundi 2 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:04:47
As a gentle welcome back, therapy is provided for Eamonn's partsong fetish with Eamonn himself, Robert and also some wine. TRACKLISTING : (1) Elgar - The Prince of Sleep; Cambridge University Chamber Choir / Christopher Robinson (2) Elgar - Go Song of mine; Finzi Singers / Paul Spicer (3) Schubert - An die Sonne; Monteverdi Choir / Malcolm Bilson / John Eliot Gardiner (4) Schumann - Double Choir motets Op.141; NDR Chamber Choir / Philip Ahmann (5) Pearsall - Light of my soul; Bath Camerata / Nigel Perrin (6) Debussy - Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder!; I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth (7) Ravel - Ronde; Ensemble Vocal Philippe Caillard (8) Stanford - Heraclitus; Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir / Paul Spicer
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Summer Playlist
Season 8 · Episode 8
lundi 22 juillet 2024 • Duration 57:55
Eamonn & Robert 'get French' but also enjoy Echo Ensemble's new CD 'Innocence' and drop into the York Early Music Festival. Music by Machaut, Ravel, Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk & anon
LINKS :
www.tenebrae-choir.com/learning-connection/classroom-singing
thesixteen.com/freevideos/eamonns-top-tips-creating-space/
www.ifagiolini.com/amuse-bouche.html
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The best things about LENT
Season 7 · Episode 5
lundi 11 mars 2024 • Duration 52:41
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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Music Education
Season 7 · Episode 4
lundi 26 février 2024 • Duration 56:29
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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Polyphony
Season 7 · Episode 3
lundi 12 février 2024 • Duration 54:23
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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Find out more about Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools
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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Starting a Choir
Season 7 · Episode 2
lundi 29 janvier 2024 • Duration 59:48
...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...
www.recordarechamberchoir.co.uk
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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Vocal Jazz
Season 7 · Episode 1
mercredi 17 janvier 2024 • Duration 52:56
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.
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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Christmas Chihuahua
Season 6 · Episode 9
lundi 18 décembre 2023 • Duration 01:02:32
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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Singing and the menopause
Season 6 · Episode 8
lundi 4 décembre 2023 • Duration 46:36
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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The Fast Show
Season 6 · Episode 7
lundi 20 novembre 2023 • Duration 59:26
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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