The Choir - The Choral Interview: Recent Episodes
BBC Radio 3
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions. The Choir programme broadcasts every Sunday at 4pm, exploring all things choral, with performances and...
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks choral and film music with Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Ralph Allwood, founder of Inner Voices and the Eton Choral Course
Sara Mohr-Pietsch chats with actress Anne Reid, to chat about her favourite choral music
Sara's guest is Paul Mason, Guardian journalist and Economics Editor of Channel 4 News.
Singer John Potter and composer Sasha Johnson Manning explore the landscape of contempoary choral music.
Conductor and oboist Nicholas Daniel chats to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his favourite choral works.
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'.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch samples the choral passions of composer, viola player and arranger John Metcalfe.
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.
Director of Cheltenham Music Festival Meurig Bowen shares a selection of his choral favourites, including a family treasure from the BBC Proms archive.
Winner of the 2014 British Composer Award for choral music, Cecilia McDowall, talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her own choral favourites.
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.
Saxophonist and jazz composer John Surman talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his favourite choral music.
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.
Sara talks to Norwegian composer and rising choral star, Ola Gjeilo, who introduces some of his favourite choral music.
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.
Vanessa Redgrave also joins Sara to for a chat about her involvement in choral singing, with a selection of choral favourites.
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
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.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch invites keyboardist and director of the Acadamy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr, to share his choral passions
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.
Jonathan Dove talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about writing for choirs, and the choral music that most inspires him.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Eugene Skeef composer, performer, teacher and founder of musical charity Umoya Creations.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to countertenor, Iestyn Davies about his time as a Cambridge chorister under legendary music director, George Guest.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to singer and vocal coach Linda Hirst about her life in choral music.
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
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.
The Choir presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to composer and baritone Roderick Williams about his choral passions.
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.