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• Features on all things choir and organ from fantastic fugues to "bonkers" choral works.

  

• Take part in our quiz and try to identify the carols we’re playing backwards on the organ

  

• Christmas is joyous, and we offer you choral tips on how to stay merry through the season

  

• We rate Christmas Carols on how well they can send you to sleep

  

• Seven ways an organist might occupy the bars’ rest in a performance of The Planets.

  

• The King's Singers share top tips on how to make your choir sound its best.

  

• Roderick Williams tells us about his passion for organ music.

  

• The Melrose Quartet on why anyone can sing harmonies

  The Melrose Quartet explore the joyous roots of close harmony singing.

  Duration: 12:39

• The Village Carol Tradition

  Professor Ian Russell tells us about a carolling tradition.

  Duration: 11:42

• "A toe-curling poem in praise of Lenin..."

  Shostakovich's Symphony No. 2, commissioned for the 10th anniversary of the Revolution.

  Duration: 0:57

• Learning to play the organ

  Simon Williams, Director, RCO Academy, on learning to play the organ.

  Duration: 6:53
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• Voices Now Big Choral Census

• Robert Hollingworth and The 24

• Anna Carina Sundstedt and Steffen Bruun

• Musarc
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