Contemporary Choral Music
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores contemporary choral music with guests including composer Sasha Johnson Manning. Birtwistle's The Moth Requiem is Sara's choral classic.
As part of Radio 3's New Year New Music, Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores contemporary choral music including music by Berio, Kerry Andrew, Will Todd, Morten Lauridsen. She is joined by guests composer Sasha Johnson Manning, known for her choral compositions, including Manchester Carols and Requiem and singer John Potter, who's sung anything and everything from early music to the most contemporary avant-garde choral music, with many different groups including the Hilliard Ensemble and Swingle II. The International Chorale of Brussels introduce themselves in our regular spot,"Meet My Choir" and Harrison Birtwistle's "The Moth Requiem", an elegiac piece written for female voices, harps and alto flute, inspired by a poem about a moth trapped inside a piano, is Sara's choral classic.
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Meet My Choir: International Chorale of Brussels
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Meredith Monk
Particular Dance
Ensemble: Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble.- Impermanence.
- ECM.
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Sasha Johnson Manning
New Boy Born
Choir: Manchester Carollers. Orchestra: Northern Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tanner.- The Manchester Carols.
- Naxos.
- 10.
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Luciano Berio
Cries of London
Ensemble: The Swingle Singers. Conductor: Luciano Berio.- DECCA : 425-620-2.
- DECCA.
- 12.
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Phillip Neil Martin
Human Drum
Choir: Juice. -
Morten Lauridsen
O Magnum Mysterium
Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale. Director: Paul Salamunovich.- RC : RCM-19705.
- RC.
- 17.
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Will Todd
Mass in Blue
Choir: Vasari Singers. Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse. Orchestra: Will Todd Ensemble.- SIGNUM : SIG CD-083.
- SIGNUM.
- 5.
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Sasha Johnson Manning
Requiem (excerpt)
Choir: St Louis Chamber Chorus. Conductor: Barnes, Philip.- Regent.
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Kerry Andrew
Salve Regina
Choir: Merton College Oxford Choir. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas. Conductor: Peter Phillips. -
Veljo Tormis
Hunting Game
Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: T玫nu Kaljuste.- VIRGIN CLASSICS : VC-545185.
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
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Harrison Birtwistle
The Moth Requiem
Choir: 91热爆 Singers. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.- Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem.
- Signum Classics.
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Judith Weir
Love Bade Me Welcome
Choir: Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge Choir. Conductor: Geoffrey Webber.- DELPHIAN : DCD34095.
- DELPHIAN.
- 17.
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F Zapata Bello
Mi Tumbao
Choir: Entre Voces.- Polyfollia 2008.
- Polyfollia.
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- Sun 3 Jan 2016 16:0091热爆 Radio 3
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