Sounds Choral
Sundays at 2 pm and Tuesdays at 3 pm
A weekly exploration into the colorful world of choral music with a rotating panel of hosts from around the choral scene.
Sounds Choral is the recipient of the 2024 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Broadcast/Media Award in concert music.
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Sounds Choral this Sunday (6/28 at 2 pm) features an interview with British conductor Suzi Digby about her ensemble's latest release. -
Sounds Choral this Sunday (6/21 at 2 pm) explores the rare but evocative combinations in the choral music world - works for choir and classical guitar.
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This week's Sounds Choral Sunday (6/14 at 2 pm) welcomes the Italian composer, keyboardist and conductor Rafael Fusco. -
This program looks at composers response through the choral art to war with music by Verdelot, Haydn, Beethoven, Vaughan-Williams, Britten and your host Steven Sametz
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A program with a wide eclectic selections showing the diversity on choral music by composers who move beyond traditional sources
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Over the last decades there has been an explosion of performances and recordings of Monteverdi's justly acclaimed 1610 Vespers. On this program our host with his Ensemble The Thirteen- expand out and present the 'Lost Vespers' of the Italian Master.
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Host Ethan Sperry shares recordings of the Portland State University Chamber Choir, which held its first concert on May 19, 1976, this Sunday (5/17 at 2 pm) on Sounds Choral. -
Sounds Choral this Sunday (5/10 at 2 pm) pays tribute to mothers and grandmothers.
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Sounds Choral this Sunday (5/3 at 2 pm) spotlights two American works from the 1960s.
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