Heat 1, 2016
The wide-ranging music quiz celebrates its thirtieth year on Radio 4, with Paul Gambaccini in the questionmaster's chair.
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Paul Gambaccini returns with the 30th anniversary series of the perennial music quiz, with questions ranging across every musical genre.
Whether your interest is in the Baroque, opera, choral music, the romantic symphony, the golden age of Hollywood, traditional and modern jazz, film music and TV themes or the rock and pop greats of the past fifty years, there's always something in Counterpoint to suit your taste. In this series 27 competitors from around the UK will be showing off the breadth of their musical knowledge, as well as hoping for some specialist questions that suit their expertise. After the knockout rounds, three of them will end up in the Final, which will come from the 2016 麻豆社 Proms to mark the programme's 30th birthday.
This year's first heat comes from the 麻豆社's Maida Vale studios and features music lovers from Essex, Kent and Lancashire.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita in E Major
Performer: Jacques Loussier.- MUSIC CLUB.
- MCCD-113.
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Nina Simone
Wild Is The Wind
- Universal Classics and Jazz.
- 98080-87.
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Knut Nystedt
Immortal Bach
Conductor: Simon Halsey. Performer: Berlin Radio Choir.- Harmonia Mundi.
- HMC-801873.
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Alan Jay Lerner
The Jousts
Composer: Frederick Loewe. Performer: The Company - Camelot.- THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.
- CDTER-1030.
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Alfred Brendel
The Hammerklavier Piano Sonata No 29 in B flat
- Philips.
- 446093-2.
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Fairport Convention
Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
- Hannibal.
- HNCD-4418.
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Frank Sinatra, Jr.
I'm A Fool To Want You
- ANGEL.
- CDQ-7243 836681 2.
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Frank Sinatra, Jr.
On The Street Of Dreams
- ANGEL.
- CDQ-7243 836681 2.
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Sir George Martin
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Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas
Little Children
- See For Miles.
- SEECD-422.
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The Beatles
Yesterday
- PARLOPHONE.
- CDP-746439 2.
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Bernard Cribbins
Right Said Fred
- EMI.
- SRS 5036.
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
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William Walton
Richard III - Prelude
Conductor: William Walton. Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra.- EMI CLASSICS.
- 7243-5 65003 2 7.
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Roger Quilter
It Was A Lover And His Lass
Performer: Janet Baker. Performer: Gerald Moore.- EMI.
- ASD 2929.
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Rufus Wainwright
Take All My Loves (Sonnet 40)
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 479 5508.
Classical Weather
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Claude Debussy
Estampes: No 3 Jardins Sous La Pluie
Performer: Fran莽ois鈥怞o毛l Thiollier.- NAXOS.
- 8.-555800.
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Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens: Chasse Royale Et Orage
Performer: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris.- EMI.
- CDM 7 63480 2.
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Henry Purcell
What Power art Thou? (King Arthur)
Performer: Les Arts Florissants. Performer: William Christie.- Erato.
- 4509985352.
Today's competitors
JOHN BRIGHT, a retired local government officer from Ingatestone in Essex;
DAVID JOHNS, a tour guide from Colne in Lancashire;
CHRISTINE McCOMBE, a retired teacher from Faversham聽in Kent.
Broadcasts
- Mon 20 Jun 2016 15:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sat 25 Jun 2016 23:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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