Semi-Final 1, 2014
Paul Gambaccini returns to the chair, with the first of the semi-finals in the 2014 season of the wide-ranging music quiz.
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Paul Gambaccini is back in the questionmaster's chair as the 2014 season of the annual music quiz reaches the semi-final stage. Three heats winners from earlier in the series return to compete for a coveted place in the Counterpoint Final.
The competition may get stiffer but the rules don't change: and each of the semi-finalists will have to choose a special musical topic on which to answer individual questions, with no prior warning of what the subjects are going to be.
This week's contestants are from the London area and from Derbyshire.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Round One Music
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Jacques Offenbach
The Tales of Hoffmann Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Performer: Joan Sutherland. Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Performer: Richard Bonynge.- Decca.
- 417-3632.
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Sam Cooke
Another Saturday Night
Performer: Yusuf Islam.- POLYGRAM TV/ISLAND.
- 840-148-2.
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Kurt Weill
Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra
Performer: Nona Liddell. Performer: London Sinfonietta.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 423 255-2.
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TIM MINCHIN
The Smell of Rebellion
Performer: Cast of Matilda the Musical.- RSC.
- RSCE 002.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
FETE POLONAISE
Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Paul Paray.- Mercury.
- 475-6183.
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Rita Coolidge
WE'RE ALL ALONE
- EMI.
- 831-646-2.
Round Two Music
Debussy
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Claude Debussy
Preludes Bk 2 - Feux d'artifice (extract)
Performer: Walter Gieseking.- VAIA.
- VAIA 1117-2.
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Claude Debussy
Pagodes [no.1 of Estampes], arr. Grainger for percussion [orig. for piano]
Performer: Geoffrey Simon & The Philharmonia.- Cala.
- CACD 1001.
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Claude Debussy
Children's Corner - The Snow is Dancing
Performer: Walter Gieseking.- VAIA.
- VAIA 1117-2.
Covent Garden & ENO
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Richard Wagner
SIEGFRIED - Hoho! Hoho!
Conductor: Reginald Goodall. Performer: Alberto Remedios. Performer: Sadler鈥檚 Wells Opera Orchestra.- CHANDOS.
- CHAN-3045(4).
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Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes - Interlude V
Conductor: Colin Davis. Performer: Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.- Philips.
- 289 462 847-2.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Sempre Libera
Performer: Angela Gheorghiu. Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Sir Georg Solti.- Decca.
- 448-119-2.
Bob Dylan Covered
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DYLAN
MY BACK PAGES
Performer: The Byrds.- COLUMBIA.
- 983-399 2.
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DYLAN
SI TU DOIS PARTIR
Performer: Fairport Convention.- ISLAND MASTERS.
- CIDD-4.
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Bob Dylan
Make You Feel My Love
Performer: Bob Dylan.- Columbia.
- 486936-2.
Today's competitors
ROBERT CHARLESWORTH, a retired financial consultant from London;
IAN CLARK, a videographer from Leytonstone in East London;
RICHARD ELY, a trainer from Alfreton in Derbyshire.
Broadcasts
- Mon 24 Nov 2014 15:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sat 29 Nov 2014 23:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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