John Humphrys, one of Britain’s best-known broadcasters, explores some of classical music’s most fascinating stories and the common ground between them in Connecting Notes, Saturdays from 9pm-10pm beginning on Saturday 6 January.
With a successful career spanning six decades, John has presented on both radio and TV, and has anchored many of the country’s flagship news programmes, including the Today Programme.
In the final episode, John explores the world of choral music. He has a personal connection to the genre, having joined a choir last year, which he explains, as well as commenting on what it is about singing that has become so special to him.
John celebrates the diversity of UK choral music with a range of amateur and professional choirs, including the Welsh male voice tradition, through a recording made by the Treorchy Male Voice Choir. Elsewhere, Voces8 performs The Seal Lullaby by American composer Eric Whitacre, and John selects a performance of the ‘Lacrimosa’ from Mozart’s Requiem: a piece which his own choir are tackling.