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The Choir - The Choral Interview Podcast

English, Music, 1 season, 51 episodes, 13 hours, 56 minutes
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions. The Choir programme broadcasts every Sunday at 4pm, exploring all things choral, with performances and...
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Rachel Podger

Sara chats with baroque violinist Rachel Podger about her love of singing.
3/12/201711 minutes, 7 seconds
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Oz Clarke

Wine writer and broadcaster Oz Clarke chats with Sara about his choral history.
2/19/201715 minutes, 32 seconds
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Rachel Portman

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks choral and film music with Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman.
1/8/201712 minutes, 56 seconds
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Rebecca Lodge

Rebecca Lodge talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about what it's like to sing Schoenberg.
1/1/20177 minutes, 51 seconds
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Angela Hewitt

Angela Hewitt chats with Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her choral passions.
10/16/201616 minutes, 37 seconds
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Paul Mealor

Composer and conductor Paul Mealor chats about his favourite choral music.
10/9/201614 minutes, 14 seconds
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Iain Bell

Composer Iain Bell chats with Sara about some of his favourite choral music.
6/26/201615 minutes, 32 seconds
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Jeremy Huw Williams

Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams chats about his favourite choral music.
6/12/201614 minutes, 23 seconds
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Robin Holloway

Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions.
5/29/201614 minutes, 40 seconds
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Mark De-lisser

Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions.
5/15/201614 minutes, 25 seconds
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Daniel Pailthorpe

Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions.
4/24/201618 minutes
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Simon Callow

Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions.
4/17/201615 minutes, 50 seconds
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Ralph Allwood

Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Ralph Allwood, founder of Inner Voices and the Eton Choral Course
4/3/201618 minutes, 12 seconds
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Adele Anderson

Adele Anderson, of the group Fascinating Aida, talks about her favourite choral music.
3/27/201614 minutes, 41 seconds
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Anne Reid

Sara Mohr-Pietsch chats with actress Anne Reid, to chat about her favourite choral music
2/28/201614 minutes, 23 seconds
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Paul Mason

Sara's guest is Paul Mason, Guardian journalist and Economics Editor of Channel 4 News.
2/15/201620 minutes, 27 seconds
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Tasmin Little

Violinist Tasmin Little shares some of her favourite choral works with Sara.
1/24/201616 minutes, 4 seconds
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New Year New Music

Singer John Potter and composer Sasha Johnson Manning explore the landscape of contempoary choral music.
1/3/201620 minutes, 57 seconds
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Choral Interview - Stephen Hough

Pianist and composer Stephen Hough shares some of his favourite choral works.
12/27/201516 minutes, 21 seconds
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Alexander Armstrong

Alexander Armstrong shares some of his choral favourites with Sara.
11/29/201518 minutes, 21 seconds
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Karl Jenkins

Composer Karl Jenkins chats to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his favourite choral works.
11/15/201514 minutes, 8 seconds
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Nicholas Daniel

Conductor and oboist Nicholas Daniel chats to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his favourite choral works.
10/25/201514 minutes, 21 seconds
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Deborah Coughlin

When Deborah Coughlin founded 'Gaggle' she soon found herself and her all-female group proclaimed as amongst the 'fifty most forward-thinking people in music'. This week she joins Sara Mohr-Pietsch to explain why, for her, the joy of choir singing is all about being given 'permission to make a noise'.
10/11/201519 minutes, 39 seconds
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Nigel Hess

Film and television composer Nigel Hess chats about his choral favourites
10/6/201514 minutes, 35 seconds
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John Metcalfe

Sara Mohr-Pietsch samples the choral passions of composer, viola player and arranger John Metcalfe.
6/14/201517 minutes, 55 seconds
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Masaaki Suzuki

Masaaki Suzuki is director of Bach Collegium Japan, one of the foremost early music ensembles in the world. He talks to Sara about his life in music and introduces her to some of his favourite choral recordings.
5/31/201515 minutes, 30 seconds
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Colin Lawson

Period clarinettist Colin Lawson shares his choral favourites.
5/17/201512 minutes, 39 seconds
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Meurig Bowen

Director of Cheltenham Music Festival Meurig Bowen shares a selection of his choral favourites, including a family treasure from the BBC Proms archive.
4/19/201513 minutes, 28 seconds
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Bob Flowerdew

Gardener Bob Flowerdew tells Sara about his favourite choral pieces
4/7/201516 minutes
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Richard Watkins

The horn player Richard Watkins chats with Sara about his choral favourites.
3/15/201513 minutes, 53 seconds
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David Pountney

Artistic director of Welsh National Opera, David Pountney shares his choral passions.
2/15/201516 minutes, 30 seconds
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Cecilia McDowall

Winner of the 2014 British Composer Award for choral music, Cecilia McDowall, talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her own choral favourites.
2/1/201514 minutes, 9 seconds
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Karen Gibson

Fresh from winning BBC Gospel Choir of the Year, the multiple choir conductor and workshop leader Karen Gibson talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about the choral music that inspires her.
1/4/201516 minutes, 11 seconds
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John Surman

Saxophonist and jazz composer John Surman talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his favourite choral music.
11/23/201419 minutes, 37 seconds
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Hilliard Ensemble

Recorded at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, The Hilliard Ensemble perform specially for The Choir and talk to Sara about their 40th anniversary, a new album and their forthcoming retirement.
11/18/201422 minutes, 48 seconds
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Ola Gjeilo

Sara talks to Norwegian composer and rising choral star, Ola Gjeilo, who introduces some of his favourite choral music.
11/16/201419 minutes, 57 seconds
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Sir Thomas Allen

Internationally acclaimed baritone Sir Thomas Allen recalls the rich musical heritage of his childhood, choral activities during his time studying at the Royal College of Music, and looks back on his career. Extended version of the interview that was originally broadcast on The Choir.
11/4/201415 minutes, 55 seconds
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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave also joins Sara to for a chat about her involvement in choral singing, with a selection of choral favourites.
10/5/201415 minutes, 57 seconds
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Della Jones

Welsh mezzo Della Jones talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her choral favourites including Vaughan-Williams' Toward the unknown region & Hubert Parry's I Was Glad
7/6/201413 minutes, 44 seconds
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Kerry Andrew

Singer, composer and member of vocal ensemble Juice Kerry Andrew talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her choral passions, including music from The Beach Boys and English folk group The Watersons.
6/30/201417 minutes, 47 seconds
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Richard Egarr

Sara Mohr-Pietsch invites keyboardist and director of the Acadamy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr, to share his choral passions
6/22/201416 minutes, 57 seconds
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Edward Higgingbottom

Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by Edward Higginbottom, Director of Music at New College Oxford, just before his retirement in Summer 2014, to talk about his choral passions.
5/25/201419 minutes, 22 seconds
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Jonathan Dove

Jonathan Dove talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about writing for choirs, and the choral music that most inspires him.
5/11/201419 minutes, 44 seconds
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Eugene Skeef

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Eugene Skeef composer, performer, teacher and founder of musical charity Umoya Creations.
4/20/201419 minutes, 13 seconds
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Iestyn Davies

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to countertenor, Iestyn Davies about his time as a Cambridge chorister under legendary music director, George Guest.
4/6/201418 minutes, 48 seconds
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Linda Hirst

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to singer and vocal coach Linda Hirst about her life in choral music.
3/16/201416 minutes, 51 seconds
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John Eliot Gardiner

In honour of the Monteverdi Choir's 50 year anniversary, Sara Mohr Pietsch speaks to the founder and conductor John Eliot Gardiner about the choir, and his favourite choral music
3/3/201426 minutes, 23 seconds
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Moira Smiley

Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets vocalist, Moira Smiley who performs in the studio with 8 friends and talks about the diverse influences on her music, which include folk styles, shape-note singing, classical song and Jazz.
2/16/201416 minutes, 7 seconds
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Roderick Williams

The Choir presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to composer and baritone Roderick Williams about his choral passions.
2/2/201415 minutes, 55 seconds
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Debbie Wiseman

Film composer Debbie Wiseman talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her choral favourites.
1/26/201414 minutes, 21 seconds
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Sarah Connolly

The acclaimed mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly tells The Choir presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her choral favourites in the first of a new series of interviews with leading lights of the classical music world - exploring the choral music that inspires them.
1/12/201417 minutes, 37 seconds