Latest I fagiolini Podcast Episodes
Singing in Pregnancy
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - May 13, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourIn the third episode about issues facing female singers, Eamonn again talks to Dr Jenevora Williams and Charlotte Mobbs about how physical and mental changes affect singing, with contributions from several female colleagues. TRACKS : (1) Tomás Luis de Victoria - Ne timeas Maria; The Sixteen / ...
The US Choral Scene
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - April 29, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourOpen your eyes and ears to the US choral scene, and be surprised! Christiana Howell and Luthien Brackett tell Sammy and Robert about the wealth of choral music in the US, from schools to spirituals, social change and MONEY... TRACKS : (1) Trad. Arr. F.M. Christiansen - Beautiful Savior; St. Ola...
Choral Conducting
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - April 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourEamonn Dougan kicks-off our eighth season, talking choral conducting with guests Patrick Russill, Hilary Campbell and Jack Apperley. TRACKS : (1) Tomás Luis de Victoria - Tantum Ergo; Choir of the London Oratory / Patrick Russill (2) Judith Weir - Love Bade Me Welcome; Eric Ericson Chamber Choi...
Music for Tenebrae
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - March 25, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourA Christian service performed on only three days of the year: just before Easter, focussing on the darkness of life without Christ. Insightful chat from Sammy, Robert and (finally) Eamonn with brilliant performances from I Fagiolini (Victoria), Tenebrae (Gesualdo), Les Arts Florissants (Couperin...
The best things about LENT
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - March 11, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutesRevd 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 CON...
Music Education
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - February 26, 2024 06:00 - 56 minutesRobert 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...
Polyphony
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - February 12, 2024 06:00 - 54 minutesClare 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! Follow Clare Wilkinson on X Find out more about Cambridge Early Music Summer Sc...
Starting a Choir
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - January 29, 2024 06:00 - 59 minutes...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.kantoschamber...
Vocal Jazz
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - January 17, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutesWe'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 ...
Christmas Chihuahua
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - December 18, 2023 06:00 - 1 hourEamonn, 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 ...
Singing and the menopause
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - December 04, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutesCharlotte 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 Ant...
The Fast Show
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - November 20, 2023 06:00 - 59 minutesAre 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 : (mos...
Forever blowing bubbles
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - November 06, 2023 06:00 - 1 hourRobert and Eamonn finally meet and talk: commissioning, a South African project 25 years on and at the National Youth Girls Choir course introduce Carris Jones (the first female back row singer at St Paul's Cathedral) and Joanna Tomlinson. Also why you should blow bubbles into your drinks after ...
Everything you wish you’d known about hormones and the voice
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - October 23, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutesRobert talks to vocal coach / young voice specialists Charlotte Mobbs and Dr Jenevora Williams about physical and mental issues facing young females as they go through puberty and voice development. TRACK LISTING : Carole King - (You make me feel like) A Natural Woman Aretha Franklin Gustav ...
Byrdland or 'Nobody wants a flowery organ voluntary'
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - October 09, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutesNicholas goes to St Paul's Cathedral to talk to master of the choristers Andrew Carwood and Byrd scholar Dr Katie Bank (of Byrd Central) about their passion for William Byrd's music. Is Peter Phillips right? Do audiences like Tallis while singers prefer Byrd? TRACK LISTING : Byrd - Fantasia BK...
Benevoli Benevola
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - September 25, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutesA rather tired Robert and Nicholas chat with Julia Doyle immediately after sessions for a premiere recording of a fabulous four-choir mass from 17th century Rome. [Recorded July 1st] TRACK LISTING: Orazio Benevoli – Missa Tu es Petrus (Various sections) - I Fagiolini / Hollingworth Orazio ...
Meet Robert Quinney and Ellie Stamp
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - September 11, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutesMeet Robert Quinney, director of music at New College, Oxford: also young professional singer Ellie Stamp. Thomas Guthrie, Nicholas Mulroy and Robert Hollingworth continue to muse on creativity and STUFF. TRACK LISTING: Howells - Magnificat from New College service New College Choir, Robert ...
We need to talk about directors
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - September 04, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutesAn improbable sixth season begins with an oblique response to the recent John Eliot Gardiner incident. Singer/opera director Thomas Guthrie joins Nicholas Mulroy and Robert Hollingworth to mull things over. In New York, Nicholas talks to director Aria Umezawa and singer Isaiah T Bell with an alt...
More with ’The Youth’
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - July 24, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutesRobert drops in on the Sixteen’s Genesis 16 programme for young choral singers and talks to the singers and grumpy old Eamonn, and the ep ends with an interview with Sarah Latto of Echo Vocal Ensemble, former G16 and now running her own choral groups. TRACK LISTING : Trad. arr. Gustav Holst -...
Eamonn and the third agers
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - July 11, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutesEamonn is running a singing course in Italy with some older singers who have a post-Covid perspective on singing in choirs. Lots of interesting technical tips in this one plus lovely and unfamiliar late 16th century Italian music. TRACK LISTING : Luca Marenzio - Iniquos odio habui The Sixteen...
Boys' Voices
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - June 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourWhile we all enjoy the musicianship and the inevitably brief treble career of Malakai Bayoh, Nicholas talks to Scott Price, Director of Music at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial [state] School, London, and Anita Morrison, who has taught boys (brilliantly) at London Oratory School, St John's Cambridge, ...
Back in the saddle
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - June 05, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutesRobert and Nicholas meet up after a few weeks off to mispronounce Norwegian (twice), talk Monteverdi (again) and to 'get Marian' with Victoria (natch) Song of Songs and Cecilia McDowall. Te' Jondalen Og Fri Trad.etter Ivar T.Dahl / Agnes Buen Garnds Arr.Henrik Ødegaard / Grete P.Helgerød Oslo...
Spring!
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - April 10, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutesSammy (they've given up calling him Nicholas), Eamonn & Robert blow away the cobwebs to welcome in music for SPRING. Lili Boulanger, Guillaume de Machaut, Caroline Shaw, Peter Warlock and Monteverdi (not Zefiro torna either) - with the Carice Singers, Gabrieli Consort, Gothic Voices, The 24 (Uni...
Bach Passions - Part 2
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - March 27, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutesThe second of two programmes in which Eamonn and Nicholas consider J.S.Bach's two Passion settings. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/choral-chihuahua. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#WeAreTheBBCSingers
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - March 14, 2023 14:47 - 43 minutesEmergency ep: Eamonn and Robert dip their toes into the dizzying breadth of repertoire of The BBC Singers. Could be a useful introduction to decision makers that don't know the group that well... Music by Ravel, Boulez, Gabriela Lena Frank, Laura Mvula, Brumel and Bernard Hughes. #WeAreTheBBCSin...
Bach Passions - Part 1
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - March 06, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutesThe first of two programmes in which Eamonn and Nicholas consider J.S.Bach's two Passion settings. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/choral-chihuahua. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Music for LENT ('slow' in French / 'fast' in English)
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - February 20, 2023 06:00 - 58 minutesEamonn, Nicholas and Robert trawl some mostly unusual repertoire for Lent and Holy Week. Giovanni Croce - Mascarate da Furlani (1590) I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth Dawn Walters - Pro dolorosa Eius passione (2021) Swan Consort / Anita Datta Poulenc - Vinea mea electa (1938) Bavarian Rad...
Playing with Purcell (in Norway)
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - February 06, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourIn a Norway as snowy as 'The Cold Scene' from King Arthur, Robert and new regular presenter Nicholas Mulroy work with friend and violinist, Bjarte Eike - the creative playboy behind Barokksolistene and The Alehouse Boys - and find that play has a serious place in music-making. Purcell - Curtain...
A morning in York
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - January 23, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourIn the space of a single morning but several coffees in York, Robert meets Roderick Williams the night after he premieres a new version of Dichterliebe in English, T.J.Callahan to find out what Shape Note singing is, and asks singing teacher Susan Young what three things she thinks choral conduc...
Phew - made it....
CHORAL CHIHUAHUA - December 23, 2022 06:00 - 55 minutesRobert and Eamonn just about made it through the autumn - even a brief encounter in Dublin - and chat through recent times, looking forward to 2023. After lockdowns and the post-crisis desperation for work, has anything changed? Music by Kim Porter, Thea Musgrave, Judith Weir, H.Diack Johnstone,...
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