Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions. The Choir programme broadcasts every Sunday at 4pm, exploring all things choral, with performances and...
Rachel Podger
Sara chats with baroque violinist Rachel Podger about her love of singing.
3/12/2017 • 11 minutes, 7 seconds
Oz Clarke
Wine writer and broadcaster Oz Clarke chats with Sara about his choral history.
2/19/2017 • 15 minutes, 32 seconds
Rachel Portman
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks choral and film music with Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman.
1/8/2017 • 12 minutes, 56 seconds
Rebecca Lodge
Rebecca Lodge talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about what it's like to sing Schoenberg.
1/1/2017 • 7 minutes, 51 seconds
Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt chats with Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her choral passions.
10/16/2016 • 16 minutes, 37 seconds
Paul Mealor
Composer and conductor Paul Mealor chats about his favourite choral music.
10/9/2016 • 14 minutes, 14 seconds
Iain Bell
Composer Iain Bell chats with Sara about some of his favourite choral music.
6/26/2016 • 15 minutes, 32 seconds
Jeremy Huw Williams
Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams chats about his favourite choral music.
6/12/2016 • 14 minutes, 23 seconds
Robin Holloway
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions.
5/29/2016 • 14 minutes, 40 seconds
Mark De-lisser
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions.
5/15/2016 • 14 minutes, 25 seconds
Daniel Pailthorpe
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions.
4/24/2016 • 18 minutes
Simon Callow
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews performers about their choral passions.
4/17/2016 • 15 minutes, 50 seconds
Ralph Allwood
Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Ralph Allwood, founder of Inner Voices and the Eton Choral Course
4/3/2016 • 18 minutes, 12 seconds
Adele Anderson
Adele Anderson, of the group Fascinating Aida, talks about her favourite choral music.
3/27/2016 • 14 minutes, 41 seconds
Anne Reid
Sara Mohr-Pietsch chats with actress Anne Reid, to chat about her favourite choral music
2/28/2016 • 14 minutes, 23 seconds
Paul Mason
Sara's guest is Paul Mason, Guardian journalist and Economics Editor of Channel 4 News.
2/15/2016 • 20 minutes, 27 seconds
Tasmin Little
Violinist Tasmin Little shares some of her favourite choral works with Sara.
1/24/2016 • 16 minutes, 4 seconds
New Year New Music
Singer John Potter and composer Sasha Johnson Manning explore the landscape of contempoary choral music.
1/3/2016 • 20 minutes, 57 seconds
Choral Interview - Stephen Hough
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough shares some of his favourite choral works.
12/27/2015 • 16 minutes, 21 seconds
Alexander Armstrong
Alexander Armstrong shares some of his choral favourites with Sara.
11/29/2015 • 18 minutes, 21 seconds
Karl Jenkins
Composer Karl Jenkins chats to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his favourite choral works.
11/15/2015 • 14 minutes, 8 seconds
Nicholas Daniel
Conductor and oboist Nicholas Daniel chats to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his favourite choral works.
10/25/2015 • 14 minutes, 21 seconds
Deborah Coughlin
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'.
10/11/2015 • 19 minutes, 39 seconds
Nigel Hess
Film and television composer Nigel Hess chats about his choral favourites
10/6/2015 • 14 minutes, 35 seconds
John Metcalfe
Sara Mohr-Pietsch samples the choral passions of composer, viola player and arranger John Metcalfe.
6/14/2015 • 17 minutes, 55 seconds
Masaaki Suzuki
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.
5/31/2015 • 15 minutes, 30 seconds
Colin Lawson
Period clarinettist Colin Lawson shares his choral favourites.
5/17/2015 • 12 minutes, 39 seconds
Meurig Bowen
Director of Cheltenham Music Festival Meurig Bowen shares a selection of his choral favourites, including a family treasure from the BBC Proms archive.
4/19/2015 • 13 minutes, 28 seconds
Bob Flowerdew
Gardener Bob Flowerdew tells Sara about his favourite choral pieces
4/7/2015 • 16 minutes
Richard Watkins
The horn player Richard Watkins chats with Sara about his choral favourites.
3/15/2015 • 13 minutes, 53 seconds
David Pountney
Artistic director of Welsh National Opera, David Pountney shares his choral passions.
2/15/2015 • 16 minutes, 30 seconds
Cecilia McDowall
Winner of the 2014 British Composer Award for choral music, Cecilia McDowall, talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her own choral favourites.
2/1/2015 • 14 minutes, 9 seconds
Karen Gibson
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.
1/4/2015 • 16 minutes, 11 seconds
John Surman
Saxophonist and jazz composer John Surman talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his favourite choral music.
11/23/2014 • 19 minutes, 37 seconds
Hilliard Ensemble
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.
11/18/2014 • 22 minutes, 48 seconds
Ola Gjeilo
Sara talks to Norwegian composer and rising choral star, Ola Gjeilo, who introduces some of his favourite choral music.
11/16/2014 • 19 minutes, 57 seconds
Sir Thomas Allen
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.
11/4/2014 • 15 minutes, 55 seconds
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave also joins Sara to for a chat about her involvement in choral singing, with a selection of choral favourites.
10/5/2014 • 15 minutes, 57 seconds
Della Jones
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
7/6/2014 • 13 minutes, 44 seconds
Kerry Andrew
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.
6/30/2014 • 17 minutes, 47 seconds
Richard Egarr
Sara Mohr-Pietsch invites keyboardist and director of the Acadamy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr, to share his choral passions
6/22/2014 • 16 minutes, 57 seconds
Edward Higgingbottom
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.
5/25/2014 • 19 minutes, 22 seconds
Jonathan Dove
Jonathan Dove talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about writing for choirs, and the choral music that most inspires him.
5/11/2014 • 19 minutes, 44 seconds
Eugene Skeef
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Eugene Skeef composer, performer, teacher and founder of musical charity Umoya Creations.
4/20/2014 • 19 minutes, 13 seconds
Iestyn Davies
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to countertenor, Iestyn Davies about his time as a Cambridge chorister under legendary music director, George Guest.
4/6/2014 • 18 minutes, 48 seconds
Linda Hirst
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to singer and vocal coach Linda Hirst about her life in choral music.
3/16/2014 • 16 minutes, 51 seconds
John Eliot Gardiner
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
3/3/2014 • 26 minutes, 23 seconds
Moira Smiley
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.
2/16/2014 • 16 minutes, 7 seconds
Roderick Williams
The Choir presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to composer and baritone Roderick Williams about his choral passions.
2/2/2014 • 15 minutes, 55 seconds
Debbie Wiseman
Film composer Debbie Wiseman talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her choral favourites.
1/26/2014 • 14 minutes, 21 seconds
Sarah Connolly
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.