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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.

To get in touch with the programme, email thechoir@bbc.co.uk or send a tweet to @bbcradio3.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Sun 6 Jul 2014 16:00
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Music Played

  • Howard Skempton

    2 Poems of Edward Thomas

    Choir: Exaudi. Conductor: James Weeks.
    • Mode Records.
    • Mode : 226.
    • 28.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Standing as I do before God

    Choir: Sospiri. Conductor: Christopher Watson. Singer: Susanna Fairbairn.

  • Torsten Rasch

    A Foreign Field (extract)

    Choir: Three Choirs Festival Chorus.
    • Rehearsal recording.

  • Sir George Dyson

    To Music

    Choir: Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir. Director: Paul Spicer.
    • Regent : REGCD274.
    • Regent.
    • 13.

  • 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.
    • 1.

  • Hubert Parry

    I was Glad

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Heritage.
    • HTGCD217.

  • Joseph Parry

    Myfanwy

    Choir: Morriston Orpheus Choir.
    • MUSIC FOR PLEASURE : CDMFP 6027.
    • MUSIC FOR PLEASURE.
    • 1.

  • Luciano Berio

    Sinfonia - 3rd movement

    Ensemble: Electric Phoenix. Director: Terry Edwards. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips 466 094 2.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • 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.
    • 6.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Alma Redemptoris Mater

    Choir: Sequentia. Director: Barbara Thornton.
    • Harmonia Mundi : 05472773202.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.

  • Trad

    Didn't It Rain

    Choir: Norfolk Jubilee Singers.
    • MCA : 3519-20.

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  • Sun 6 Jul 2014 16:00
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Related Links

  • (www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk)
  • (3choirs.org)
  • (www.musicint.co.uk)
  • (www.paulspicer.com)