How much energy do we all use in rehearsal and concert? Robert & Eamonn talk to dietician/singer Kate Powell - and also meet Instagram's 'choirconductor' Jonas Rasmussen. Music by Jean Francaix, Britten and Benevoli.

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Morven McIntyre introduces The National Youth Choir of Scotland with director Christopher Bell while Eamonn, Sammy and Robert remember Berty Rice. Music by James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave and Elizabeth Poston.

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Spem, Howells and the Tallis googly.

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Editor and singer Sally Dunkley joins Robert and Eamonn to understand why composers enjoy 'false relations', the major and minor chord at the same time. Music by Tallis, Shepherd, Byrd, Monteverdi with The Sixteen, The Cardinall's Musick, Gesualdo Six, I Fagiolini, Apollo 5 and more.

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Has anyone actually been to more choral concerts than Clare Stevens? Meet a music journalist who was denied the sort of access many of us took for granted because of the Troubles in 1970s Belfast but has been making up for it ever since.

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Rev Dr Jonathan Arnold takes Eamonn and Robert through the different celebrations this midwinter time, with music by the late Andrew Carter, Orlandus Lassus, J.S.Bach and Joanna Marsh.

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Eamonn, Robert and Sammy (Nicholas...) with some festive choral chat, Christmas mishaps remembered and fabulous music by Errollyn Wallen, Howells and Giovanni Gabrieli.

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Robert and Eamonn get chatty, and hear from soprano Rebecca Lea (once they've worked out which one) about a new album of Winter Songs.

MUSIC LINKS

Jamie W. Hall - Dust of Snow / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oYvoOT

Richard Rodney Bennett - A Good-Night / Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4rmFHxQ

The Nineteenth Night of December - Sun Keting / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49vzU2m

David McGregor - Ariadne / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/49CmIca

Cheryl Frances-Hoad - The Core of Time / Rebecca Lea / Caroline Jaya-Ratnam; Listen on Apple Music - https://apple.co/4oUPlpr

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