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Heat 9, 2015

Counterpoint Series 29
Episode 9 of 13

Paul Gambaccini chairs the wide-ranging music quiz, this week from Media City in Salford.

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Competitors from the North of England join Paul Gambaccini for the ninth and last heat in the 2015 tournament of the wide-ranging music quiz.

In which 20th century choral work would you hear the 'Song of the Wood-Dove'? And which jazz violinist claimed to have been born on board a ship carrying his Italian emigrant parents to the United States?

Today's trio of competitors will have to answer questions such as these in their attempt to win a semi-final place. They'll also have to choose a musical topic in which to specialise, from a list of five of which they've had no prior warning. Every musical genre and era is fair game, all the way from medieval music to opera, jazz, film and TV music and contemporary rock and pop.

Producer: Paul Bajoria.

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 8 Aug 2015 23:00
麻豆社 Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita in E Major

    Performer: Jacques Loussier.
    • MUSIC CLUB.
    • MCCD-113.

  • Marvin Gaye

    GOT TO GIVE IT UP

    • Motown.
    • 014-367-2.

  • Richard Wagner

    DANCE OF THE APPRENTICES

    Performer: Eugen Jochum. Performer: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 415-278-2.

  • Phil Spector

    SALLY GO ROUND THE ROSES Recording

    Performer: Pentangle.
    • Castle.
    • ESACD-857.

  • Edward Elgar

    SALUT D'AMOUR

    Performer: STEVE RACE/JOHN AMIS.

  • Edward Lear

    The Owl and the Pussycat

    Composer: Igor Stravinsky. Performer: Adrienne Albert. Performer: Robert Craft.
    • Sony Classical.
    • SM2K-46298.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Straight, opening her fertile womb - from The Creation

    Performer: CBSO / Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: David Thomas. Performer: Philip Langridge.
    • EMI.
    • CDS 7-54159 2.

  • Ravel

  • Maurice Ravel

    ALBORADA DEL GRACIOSO

    Performer: Charles Dutoit. Performer: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al.
    • Decca.
    • 410 010-2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Lever du Jour from 'Daphnis et Chloe'

    Conductor: Charles Munch. Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 09026 61846 2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    L'Enfant et les sortileges

    Conductor: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 457 589-2.

  • Miles Davis

  • Charlie Parker

    Scrapple From The Apple

    • Verve.
    • 9828-126.

  • The Miles Davis Nonet

    Jeru

    • CAPITOL JAZZ.
    • CDP-7 92862 2.

  • Miles Davis

    So What

    • COLUMBIA.
    • CK-64935.

  • Punk & The 70s New Wave

  • Sex Pistols

    ANARCHY IN THE U.K.

    • Virgin.
    • CDV-2142.

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Mirage

    • Polydor.
    • 9-838779.

  • P WELLER

    IN THE CITY

    Performer: The Jam.
    • POLYDOR.
    • 987-7181.

Today's competitors

MARK CLOWES, a librarian from Swinton in South Yorkshire

NICK REED, a charity administrator and fundraiser from Masham in North Yorkshire

ALAN SHUTT, a retired teacher from Chesterfield.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 3 Aug 2015 15:00
    麻豆社 Radio 4
  • Sat 8 Aug 2015 23:00
    麻豆社 Radio 4

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