‘it’s my job to be positive’

FOR almost 20 years now, choirmaster Gareth Malone has been bringing people together through the power of song. He’s done everything from inspiring schoolchildren to find their voices to forming choir

Gareth Malone opens up about touring, family and how he keeps cheery in difficult times

GARETH MALONE GETS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH HIS HOME

Radiant Dawn Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Tallis, James MacMillan, Owain Park et al Matilda Lloyd (trumpet); The Gesualdo Six/Owain Park Hyperion CDA 68465 69:35 mins This is an ingenious and moving

CONCERT HEAVEN Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet Wachtebeke (Belgium), 21 September 2002 Every five years with Le Concert Spirituel, we put on an i

Zaytoun Songs by JS Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell and Sayed Darwish et al Haitham Haidar (tenor), Sylvain Bergeron (archlute), Abdul-Wahab Kayyali (oud) et al Athene ATH 23027 51:44 mins In medieval Spain