The Choir
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The Choir - 02/03/2008
Aled Jones explores the world of minimalist music and talks to Gavin Bryars about his career and his recent collaborations with the Latvian Radio Choir.
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The Choir - 02/12/2007
As part of The Choir's choral tour of the British Isles, Aled Jones explores Ireland, looking at leading choirs, composers and contests both in the Republic and in Northern Ireland.
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The Choir - 03/02/2008
Aled Jones talks to Robert Hollingworth about the genre of madrigal comedy, with a performance of a modern madrigal fable - Menotti's The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore.
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The Choir - 04/05/2008
Aled Jones presents music written to honour Mary, mother of Jesus. With works including a Regina coeli by Mozart and a Stabat mater by Nystedt and a Magnificat by Monteverdi.
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The Choir - 04/11/2007
In the year of the 150th anniversary of Edward Elgar's birth, Aled Jones explores Elgar's choral legacy. Plus the final instalment of performances from Let the Peoples Sing.
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The Choir - 06/01/2008
Aled Jones explores how to be an effective member of a choir. Plus a look at the wide-ranging use of choral music in computer games, films, television and advertising.
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The Choir - 06/04/2008
Aled Jones introduces modern examples of the mass, recorded by the BBC Singers and the Bach Choir, and discusses the difference in settings for the cathedral and parish church.
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The Choir - 06/07/2008
Aled Jones talks to Mary King about her VoiceLab project at London's Southbank Centre. Plus Radio 3's Choir of the Year 2008 competition and 'the world's greatest choral composer'.
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The Choir - 07/02/2010
Aled Jones presents choral music inspired by the idea of light and talks to composer James Whitbourn about Luminosity, his recent large-scale work for choir and dancers.
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The Choir - 08/06/2008
Aled Jones is joined by Monteverdi Choir founder John Eliot Gardiner, and three members Gareth Keene, Julia Doyle and Lawrence Wallington to talk about the choir, past and present.
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The Choir - 09/03/2008
Aled Jones introduces psalms with settings by Ives, Bernstein and Bobby McFerrin. And Jeremy Summerly and Sarah Baldock see if a cathedral choir can be judged by its psalm chanting.
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The Choir - 09/12/2007
Aled Jones is joined by Renaissance specialist Peter Phillips, who explains why polyphony upset the Church authorities and how composers got round their demands.
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The Choir - 11/11/2007
Live from London's Royal Albert Hall, Aled Jones presents A World Requiem by John Foulds. An epic and moving memorial to the 'war dead of all nations'.
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The Choir - 12/10/2008
Is the UK neglecting its older singers? Aled Jones investigates. Plus music to reflect the constant choral interchange between Britain & America.
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The Choir - 13/01/2008
Aled Jones explores the choral world of French composer Lili Boulanger, plus there's a complete performance of Faure's Requiem conducted by Thierry Fischer with the BBC NOW.
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The Choir - 13/04/2008
Aled Jones presents choral music from Australia and New Zealand, including music reflecting the Maori tradition, and also talks to Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe.
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The Choir - 13/07/2008
Aled Jones looks back on 2008's musical discoveries, including choral groups from Tahiti, Iceland, the US and New Zealand. Plus the 2008 Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival.
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The Choir - 14/02/2010
As Lindsay Gray approaches his first anniversary as director of the Royal School of Church Music, he talks to Aled Jones about leadership, tradition and modernisation.
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The Choir - 16/03/2008
Aled Jones explores Iceland's strong choral tradition with composer Haflioi Hallgrimsson and music critic Hilary Finch. Plus new choral releases including new music for Passiontide.
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The Choir - 16/09/2007
Aled Jones introduces music from the 32 voices of French chamber choir Accentus. Including music by Debussy, Mahler, Poulenc, Ravel and Schoenberg.
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The Choir - 17/02/2008
David Fanshawe has spent over 10 years recording singers across the Pacific Islands. He talks to Aled Jones about his travels and Tahitian and French Polynesian choral traditions.
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The Choir - 18/11/2007
Music technologist Jono Buchanan talks about writing and recording a piece with a computerised choir. Aled Jones introduces German gypsy music, sacred motets and drinking tunes.
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The Choir - 20/04/2008
To mark 50 years since Vaughan Williams's death in 1958, Aled Jones explores the composer's contribution to choral music and visits the Leith Hill Festival, founded by him in 1905.
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The Choir - 21/02/2010
Aled Jones introduces settings of Auden and announces results from the BBC's Choral Ambition scheme. He also pays tribute to choirmaster Stanley Vann in his 100th birthday year.
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The Choir - 21/10/2007
Aled Jones presents performances by an international selection of children's choirs, all performing in Let the Peoples Sing, an international competition for amateur choirs.
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The Choir - 22/06/2008
Aled Jones introduces a concert given in Bath Abbey featuring the Great Voices of Bulgaria under Ilya Mihaylov performing traditional folksongs and music from the Orthodox Church.
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The Choir - 23/03/2008
Aled Jones meets choral director Terry Edwards, who has worked on film and with many choirs around the world. Plus a tribute to Alan Thurlow, outgoing Chichester Cathedral organist.
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The Choir - 23/09/2007
Aled Jones's guests are Deborah Roberts and Laurie Stras, musical directors of Musica Secreta, an early music group that specialises in performing music for female vocal ensemble.
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The Choir - 23/12/2007
Aled Jones has some seasonal music to celebrate the culmination of The Choir's year-long Sing to the Nation feature and is joined in the studio by John Rutter.
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The Choir - 24/02/2008
Aled Jones presents choral settings of words by the American poet, Walt Whitman, to music from Vaughan Williams, Holst, Delius, Hindemith and Charles Ives.
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The Choir - 25/05/2008
Aled Jones plays a selection of modern works inspired by plainsong, including Durufle's Requiem. Plus Universal A and R executive Tom Lewis, and members of the Mediaeval Baebes.
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The Choir - 25/11/2007
Aled Jones celebrates the anniversaries of a pair 20th Century composers - Jean Sibelius and French composer and organist Jean Langlais.
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The Choir - 26/10/2008
Two of the country's leading human beatboxers - Shlomo and Jestar* - perform their vocal tricks with Aled Jones. There's also music for Halloween, All Souls and All Saints Day by the BBC Singers.
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The Choir - 27/04/2008
Aled Jones explores the competitive world of American university a cappella singing - where traditional choral music is being ousted by the sounds of Oasis and Ozzy Osbourne.
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The Choir - 28/09/2008
Aled Jones talks to Harry Christophers, the founder of one of the UK’s most successful vocal ensembles, The Sixteen. Plus news from YL, one of Finland’s oldest male voice choirs.
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The Choir - 28/10/2007
Aled Jones presents highlights from the Tallis Festival hosted by the Exmoor Singers of London, including the world premiere of a work by Peter McGarr, Love You Big as the Sky.
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The Choir - 29/04/2007
Aled Jones joins Le Concert Spirituel director Herve Niquet in Paris to celebrate the 350th anniversary of one of France's great choral composers, Michel-Richard de Lalande.
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The Choir - 29/06/2008
Aled Jones talks to American composer Eric Whitacre. Plus new releases from Stile Antico and Wells Cathedral, and a look at the appeal of choirs for prime-time television.
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The Choir - 30/03/2008
Aled Jones is joined from Beijing by a choir director hoping to perform large-scale Western choral music in China. Plus a visit to New York to look at the gay choral scene.
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The Choir - 30/09/2007
Aled Jones takes a choral perspective on Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, and discovers the singing village of Premana, a tiny alpine community with a vibrant tradition of folk-song.
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The Choir - 30/12/2007
Aled Jones presents another programme of music from the world of choirs.
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The Choir - A Tribute to Richard Hickox
Aled Jones is joined by some of the closest collaborators of the late Richard Hickox to explore the conductor's work in choral music.
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The Choir - Accompanists
Aled Jones and guests Sarah Baldock, Iain Farrington and Jeffrey Howard discuss the role of the accompanist, a pivotal position in the choral team.
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The Choir - Aled Jones
Aled Jones talks Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2006 champions Chantage and their conductor James Davey.
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The Choir - Aled Jones
Aled Jones presents the Voice Project, performing Gwilym Simcock's I Prefer the Gorgeous Freedom at the 2009 London Jazz Festival with the composer. Plus a recording by Chantage.
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The Choir - American Gospel Music
Aled Jones explores the gospel music scene in America and marks the 50th anniversary of the death of composer Bohuslav Martinu.
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The Choir - An Ode to Music
Aled Jones looks at choral responses to the ancient poetic idea of the ode. With Purcell's Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, plus music by Holst, Britten, Kodaly and Rorem.
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The Choir - Aswatuna Choral Festival
Aled Jones journeys to the Aswatuna Festival in Petra, Jordan, an event which brings together choirs from across the Middle East, including Palestinian and Iraqi groups.
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The Choir - BBC Singers/VocalEssence Stephen Cleobury Concert
Aled Jones presents a special BBC Singers concert for the 60th birthday of their Conductor Laureate, Stephen Cleobury. Including a special appearance by American choir VocalEssence.
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The Choir - Bodleian Library Exhibition
With Aled Jones. Conductor Harry Christophers reports from Oxford's Bodleian library on its exhibition of British choir manuscripts. Plus a look at 2009's big choral anniversaries.
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The Choir - Buddhist Chant
Aled Jones visits a Tibetan centre in South London to explore the Buddhist chant tradition. Plus a focus on choirs around the world tackling music from outside their national style.
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The Choir - Choir of the Year 2010
Aled Jones is joined by Robert Hollingworth to announce the Category Finalists taking part in Choir of the Year 2010.
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The Choir - Choir of the Year 2010/Latin American Choral Music
Aled Jones finds out the latest from Choir of the Year 2010, as well as sampling the foot-tapping choral rhythms of Latin America.
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The Choir - Choir of the Year - Category Final 1
Aled Jones and choral conductor Deborah Catterall present highlights from the 2008 Choir of the Year competition, looking at the youth and adult choirs.
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The Choir - Choir of the Year - Category Final 2
Aled Jones and Deborah Catterall present highlights from the 2008 Choir of the Year competition, focusing on those left in the Open and Children's categories and in the Grand Final.
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The Choir - Choir of the Year Category Finals 1
Aled Jones introduces highlights from the 2010 Category Finals of the amateur choral competition Choir of the Year. With results from the Children's category and the Open category.
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The Choir - Choir of the Year - Youth and Adult Category
Aled Jones presents highlights from the latest round of Choir of the Year 2010. Featuring choirs in the Youth and Adult categories.
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The Choir - Choir Profile: Polyphony
Aled Jones finds out about Polyphony, one of the UK's most admired professional choirs, as he talks to Stephen Layton, who founded the group 22 years ago and still leads it today.
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The Choir - Choirs of Angels
Aled Jones turns his attention heavenward to find choral music with an angelic theme.
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The Choir - Choral Music to Make You Smile
Aled Jones presents a classic performance from the Hoffnung Music Festival. Plus news from more choirs who have benefited from the BBC's Choral Ambition scheme.
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The Choir - Christmas Carols
Aled Jones explores how composers, choirs and publishers approach one of the most tradition-bound areas of the choral repertoire - Christmas carols. Plus new carols for this season.
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The Choir - Christmas Music for Choirs
Aled Jones talks to Sasha Johnson Manning, whose Manchester Carols aim to retell the story of the Nativity for the 21st century. Plus a selection of Christmas choral rarities.
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The Choir - Dance
Aled Jones explores the idea of dance in choral music and presents complete performances of two major choral ballets -Stravinsky's Les Noces and Holst's The Golden Goose.
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The Choir - David Willcocks Celebration
Aled Jones presents a celebration of the work of choral conductor and composer David Willcocks
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The Choir - Eric Whitacre, Elizabeth Poston
Aled Jones is joined by celebrated choir composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. Plus the mystery of choral composer Elizabeth Poston, writer of Jesus Christ the Apple Tree.
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The Choir - Gaelic Choral Music, Handel's Messiah
Presented by Aled Jones. Featuring ENO's staged production of Messiah, Andrew Robertson on the choral events at the 2009 Royal National Mod and an update on Sing Hallelujah.
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The Choir - Great Handel choirs/Haydn's Heiligmesse
Aled Jones previews ENO's Sing Hallelujah celebrations with choral director Simon Lole's pick of great Handel choirs on disc. Plus a complete performance of Haydn's Heiligmesse.
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The Choir - Great Organist Composers, Sing Live
Aled Jones is joined by organist David Bednall, a choral composer inspired by Strauss, Puccini, Ravel and Vaughan Williams, and learns about the singing organisation Sing Live.
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The Choir - Handel Week - Chandos Anthems
Aled Jones investigates Handel's time as composer-in-residence at Cannons, the Edgware home of the Earl of Carnarvon, where he produced his 11 Chandos Anthems.
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The Choir - Haydn Mariazeller Messe/Groove for Thought Artist Profile
Aled Jones talks to members of close-harmony group Groove for Thought, fusing the worlds of R&B, gospel and jazz. Plus a complete broadcast of Joseph Haydn's Mariazeller Messe.
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The Choir - Haydn Part Songs
Aled Jones explores the part songs inspired by Haydn's visit to one of England's burgeoning singing societies - the so-called glee clubs.
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The Choir - Hoddinott Hall Concert
Aled Jones presents the programme from Hoddinott Hall, the new home of the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, introducing the first choral concert of their opening season.
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The Choir - Hungarian Choirs
Aled Jones introduces more performance from the Aswatuna choral festival. Plus a tour of the Hungarian choral scene with music from Bartók, Kodály, and the contemporary composer János Vajda.
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The Choir - Iberian and Latin American Choral Music
Aled Jones talks to conductor Carlos Fernandez Aransay about Iberian and Latin American choral music from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Plus the Sing Hallelujah project.
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The Choir - Interviews with Terry Edwards and Eric Whitacre
Aled Jones revists two interviews from 2008 - with Terry Edwards, one of Britain's most prolific music directors, and composer Eric Whitacre, writer of popular works for choirs.
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The Choir - John Armitage Memorial Trust/Choral Competition/Sport Relief
Aled Jones marks ten years of the John Armitage Memorial Trust and explores its growing legacy of new music for voice, brass and organ. Plus Britain's newest choral competition.
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The Choir - Juice Ensemble Profile
Aled Jones meets the vocal trio Juice, who discuss their interest in contemporary music and perform in the studio. Plus music inspired by the themes of evening and night.
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The Choir - Karl Jenkins and The Really Big Chorus
Aled Jones is joined by Karl Jenkins to discuss the composer's choral works and his new commission for The Really Big Chorus. Plus The Really Big Chorus founding member Don Monro.
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The Choir - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Aled Jones presents music from a concert given at the Hall for Cornwall, Truro, by multi-Grammy Award-winning a cappella vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
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The Choir - Latin American Music
Aled Jones examines the cross-cultural roots of Latin American choral music with Carlos Fernandez Aransay. Plus the 350th anniversary of Andre Campra's birth and Choir of the Year.
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The Choir - Let The Peoples Sing
Aled Jones presents coverage of the final of the Let The Peoples Sing amateur choir contest, held in 2009 in Oslo. With contributions from BBC Singers producer Michael Emery.
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The Choir - Live performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah
From St David's Hall in Cardiff, Aled Jones introduces the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales performing Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah.
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The Choir - London Festival of Contemporary Music 2009
Aled Jones previews the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music 2009 and talks to experimental vocalist Phil Minton about his Feral Choir.
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The Choir - Masses by Opera Composers
Aled Jones introduces masses by composers better known from the glamour of the Italian Grand Opera stage - Puccini, Rossini, Mascagni and others. Plus Bernstein's theatrical Mass.
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The Choir - Matthew Whittall/Haydn Grosse Orgelmesse
Aled Jones talks to Canadian composer Matthew Whittall, famed in Finland for his distinctive choral sound. Plus Haydn's Missa in Honorem BVM (Grosse Orgelsolomesse).
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The Choir - Mendelssohn Weekend
From the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Aled Jones and his guests explore how Mendelssohn's creative personality was laid bare in his choral music.
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The Choir - Messiaen Programme
BBC Singers perform Messiaen's Cinq Rechants and its companion, Jolivet's Epithalame, widely regarded as one of the most difficult choral pieces ever written.
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The Choir - Michael Bawtree, Choir of the Year
Aled Jones talks to conductor Michael Bawtree about the logistics of bringing several choirs together for a performance. Plus more category finalists from 2010's Choir of the Year.
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The Choir - Missa Cellensis
Aled Jones introduces a complete performance of Haydn's giant Missa Cellensis (St Cecilia Mass) and also presents a report from the composer's professional home of Eisenstadt.
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The Choir - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Aled Jones talks to members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, who have been broadcasting live to Americans every week since 1929. Plus composer Anthony Bolton on his love of choirs.
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The Choir - Mozart in Salzburg
Mozart in Salzburg: Aled Jones visits the city where Mozart wrote most of his significant choral music, and seeks out the divide between the composer's faith and duty.
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The Choir - Multi-Part Music
Aled Jones explores our recurring fascination with multi-part choral music, with composer Gabriel Jackson, whose own 40-part anthem is one of the latest additions to the tradition.
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The Choir - Music Related to War
Aled Jones explores music written in response to warfare and presents Jonathan Willcocks's cantata A Great and Glorious Victory, marking the Battle of Trafalgar.
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The Choir - Musical Heritage of the English Oratories
Aled Jones explores the rich musical heritage of the English Oratories, which were established by Cardinal John Henry Newman in 1848.
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The Choir - Musicals
Aled Jones talks to West End theatre manager James McKeon and chorus member Aoife Nally about choral singing in musicals.
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The Choir - New Choirs Revisited
With Aled Jones. Choral director Peter Broadbent returns with his pick of promising choral talent, and Aled explores the choral legacy of Charles Ives.
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The Choir - Nonsense Texts, Roxanna Panufnik
Aled Jones presents choral music featuring nonsense words or no words at all. He also talks to Roxanna Panufnik about her new mass for the London Oratory School Schola.
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The Choir - Polyfollia Vocal Showcase
Aled Jones introduces a selection of up-and-coming vocal talent, gathered for a unique showcase in the Normandy town of Saint-Lo for the 2010 Polyfollia Choral Showcase 2010.
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The Choir - Purcell Weekend
Aled Jones is joined on the streets of Westminster by music historian Bruce Wood to recreate a choral 'day in the life' of Purcell. Plus a look at the incomplete Hear My Prayer.
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The Choir - Rautavaara - 05/10/2008
Aled Jones talks to Finnish choral conductor, writer and journalist Kari Turunen about Einojuhani Rautavaara and the post-war choral scene in Finland.
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The Choir - RheinVokal Festival Concert
Aled Jones presents music from 2008's RheinVokal Festival in Germany, including English works dedicated to St Cecilia, madrigals by Gesualdo and Scarlatti's Stabat mater.
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The Choir - Robert Lucas Pearsall
Aled Jones is joined by Anthony Rooley to uncover the unsung Victorian choral hero Robert Lucas Pearsall. Plus highlights from the 2009 Tampere Vocal Festival in Finland.
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The Choir - Robert Schumann
Aled Jones focuses on the choral works of Robert Schumann and talks to two admirers of his music - conductor Simon Halsey, and singer and song specialist Norbert Meyn.
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The Choir - Ronald Corp/Josette Simon
Aled Jones is joined by Ronald Corp, director of the New London Children's Choir. He also discusses the Kaos Signing Choir for Deaf and Hearing Children with actress Josette Simon.
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The Choir - Russian Choral Repertoire
Aled Jones is joined by choral conductor David Trendell to discuss singing Russian repertoire. Plus news of an a cappella festival and a performance of Rachmaninov's The Bells.
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The Choir - Scottish Choral Music
Aled Jones presents choral music from Scotland, with Dunedin Consort artistic director Susan Hamilton as well as musician and broadcaster Mary Ann Kennedy.
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The Choir - Simon Preston, Georgian Choral Music, Liverpool Metropolitan Choir
Aled Jones champions Georgian choral music, celebrates a 50th in Liverpool, begins our countdown to the Choir of the Year 2010 finals, and talks to Simon Preston.
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The Choir - Sing Hallelujah
Aled Jones introduces a special programme celebrating the Sing Hallelujah project, which encourages people to discover the joy of singing through Handel's great Hallelujah Chorus.
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The Choir - Sing Hallelujah/Choir of the Year 2010/Exile and Loss
Aled Jones looks forward to two major events in the choral world - Sing Hallelujah and Choir of the Year 2010. He also explores the musical themes of exile and loss.
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The Choir - Soviet Choral Music
Aled Jones explores how Soviet composers turned to choral music to meet the demands of their leaders for patriotic pieces.
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The Choir - SS Wesley
Aled Jones celebrates composer SS Wesley, who transformed the Anglican choral landscape. Plus a brief focus on the illegal downloading and photocopying of choral music.
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The Choir - Stuart Barr
Aled Jones talks to choir trainer Stuart Barr, who shows how he uses scientific research to help choirs find new ways of singing in his choral workshops.
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The Choir - Tampere Vocal Festival
Aled Jones picks the best from the 2009 Tampere Vocal Festival in Finland and talks to one choral director about how a visit to the city transformed his musical life.
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The Choir - The Bach Choir Profile
Aled Jones talks to members of the Bach Choir, an ensemble founded in Victorian London and subsequently imitated by many others around the world.
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The Choir - The Challenges of Recording Choirs
Music producer Adrian Peacock talks to Aled Jones about the challenges of recording choirs. Plus a catch-up with some of the groups who took part in Radio 3's Wings project.
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The Choir - The Choral Arranger
Aled Jones is joined by Michael Neaum, Lin Marsh and Alexander L'Estrange to discuss arranging works for choir and some of the challenges faced by the choral arranger.
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The Choir - The Joyful Company of Singers, Choir of the Year 2010
Aled Jones and conductor Peter Broadbent discuss the Joyful Company of Singers's concert at 2010's Presteigne Festival. Plus more choirs competing in the Choir of the Year finals.
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The Choir - The Kodaly Method
Aled Jones presents a celebration of the life and work of Hungarian composer, philosopher and teacher Zoltan Kodaly, one of the most important figures in 20th-century choral music.
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The Choir - The Monteverdi Choir
Aled Jones is joined by Monteverdi Choir founder John Eliot Gardiner and members Gareth Keene, Julia Doyle and Lawrence Wallington to talk about the choir past and present.
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The Choir - The Natural World
Naturalist and broadcaster Miranda Krestovnikoff joins Aled Jones to explore choral music inspired by the natural world. With Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Sviridov, Delius, Brumel.
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The Choir - The Prince Consort
Aled Jones is joined by vocal ensemble The Prince Consort to explore issues surrounding choral works written for solo voices and their repertoire, ranging from Brahms to Rorem.
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The Choir - The Real Group and Rajaton
Aled Jones talks to Anders Jalkeus who co-founded Sweden's Real Group 26 years ago and has seen its members reach celebrity status in their home country. Plus Finnish group Rajaton.
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The Choir - The Singing Revolution
The Singing Revolution: Latvian conductor Kaspars Putnins tells Aled Jones how music played a vital role during the overthrow of Communism in the Baltic states.
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The Choir - TV Choral Competitions, Arvo Pärt's Kanon Pokajanen
Aled Jones presents a rare complete performance of Arvo Part's epic work Kanon Pokajanen at the 2010 Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Plus the phenomenon of TV choral stand-offs.
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The Choir - Untitled
Aled Jones meets David Hill, one of the UK's leading choral conductors, at the beginning of his first season as Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers.
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The Choir - Voces Nordicae
Aled Jones is joined by members of the Swedish group Voces Nordicae. Plus a performance of Snofrid by one of Sweden's key musical figures, Wilhelm Stenhammar.
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The Choir - War Requiem
Aled Jones presents a complete performance of Britten's War Requiem. WIth Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor) and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone).
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The Choir - Weddings
Aled Jones explores the world of choral music for weddings and is joined by Nigel Short of St Bart's Church, David Guest of the Wedding Music Company and the Rev Richard Coles.
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The Choir - West Gallery Music
Aled Jones explores the revivial in West Gallery music, also known as Psalmody.
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The Choir - William Mathias Focus
Aled Jones discusses William Mathias's life and choral music with his daughter Rhiannon Mathias, Stephen Cleobury of King's College, Cambridge and Welsh music expert Geraint Lewis.
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