The Choir 16 Feb 2014

[EnemyoftheStoat]

So, today's programme offers an interview and studio performance from a "vocalist" (not a choir) plus today's choral classic, Faure's Requiem. Performed by whom? No details I can find anywhere. That's so CFM....

Shopping beckons.

[french frank]

Moira Smiley has a vocal/instrumental ensemble which seems to be a kind of folk-rock close harmony group. They have a new 'album' coming out, so maybe they'll be playing tracks from that rather than her performing on her own.

[mercia]

Faure's Requiem. Performed by whom? No details I can find anywhere.

Cambridge Singers, three movements thereof

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vd58n

I'm afraid I switched off in the first Moira Smiley, that's how closed my mind is

[DracoM]

And, oh the thrill of it, SMP gets to singalongamoira.
Cabaret stuff a la West Coast.
Sweet Honey in the Rock did it all years ago.

Plus eviscerated Faure.

Hmm.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm listening now on iPlayer. Please pass the bucket.

Radio Minus 2.

[HARRIET HAVARD]

Yet another programme being dragged down the sewer. SMP, CB-H, Cowan, Pet Rock etc- collectively looking like the wrecking crew.

[DracoM]

Interesting silence: looks as if The Choir programme as presently set up is not making the impact intended?
Specific reasons from anyone?
The more I listen, I'm afraid, the the more Radio 2 it seems.

[teamsaint]

And, oh the thrill of it, SMP gets to singalongamoira.
Cabaret stuff a la West Coast.
Sweet Honey in the Rock did it all years ago.

Plus eviscerated Faure.

Hmm.

first time i have seen them name checked on this forum. I have " Live at Carnegie Hall".
Is there anything else worth checking out, Dracs?

[Gabriel Jackson]

And, oh the thrill of it, SMP gets to singalongamoira.
Cabaret stuff a la West Coast.
Sweet Honey in the Rock did it all years ago.

Hmm.

Except they're totally different.

[MrGongGong]

I made a piece with Moira a few years ago
but sadly missed this one, "folk-rock" it wasn't

[jean]

Interesting silence: looks as if The Choir programme as presently set up is not making the impact intended?
Specific reasons from anyone?

Maybe a thread about the programme in general?

I have nothing further to say about the Feb. 16th one.

[DracoM]

I sort of meant comments on the latest - 23rd.
I'm not really convinced yet that forum members care much about The Choir programme every week.

Shall I post up the contents of every week and leave it at that?

[jean]

I sort of meant comments on the latest - 23rd.

But this thread wasn't about this week's.

And I neither enjoyed nor disliked it enough to start one.

(I was surprised to be told that the beginning of Mozart's C minor Mass was in Greek, since you'd be hard put to it to find a mass that started any other way.)

[MrGongGong]

(I was surprised to be told that the beginning of Mozart's C minor Mass was in Greek, since you'd be hard put to it to find a mass that started any other way.)

Diamanda Galas ?

(not for the faint hearted)

[DracoM]

But this thread wasn't about this week's.

And I neither enjoyed nor disliked it enough to start one.

(I was surprised to be told that the beginning of Mozart's C minor Mass was in Greek, since you'd be hard put to it to find a mass that started any other way.)

Does one need any further confirmation of the shallowness of the preparation of the programme's scripts? How did that gaffe get past any editorial process?