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Choir and Organ

Music: Classical

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing.

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Choir and Organ: Iestyn Davies, Beethoven Ode to Joy

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Music: Classical: Choral

Sara Mohr Pietsch

06/04/2014

Iestyn Davies, Beethoven Ode to Joy

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Countertenor Iestyn Davies talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about his choral background.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by countertenor Iestyn Davies, who talks about his time as a Cambridge chorister under music director George Guest. Plus the Esoterics.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to countertenor, Iestyn Davies about his time as a Cambridge chorister under legendary music director, George Guest, and finds out from founding director Eric Banks about The Esoterics, a choir based in Seattle that performs twentieth century a cappella choral settings of poetry, philosophy, and spiritual writings from around the world. We catch up with Junction 14 Ladies Barbershop Choir in "Meet my choir", and Sara's choral classic is Beethoven's triumphal setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy", the final movement of his Symphony no.9.

First broadcast in April 2014.

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