Heat 5, 2017
Paul Gambaccini welcomes competitors from the London area and the south coast of England to the latest heat of the eclectic music quiz.
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Join Paul Gambaccini for another contest between music enthusiasts from around the UK, bidding for a place in the semi-finals of radio's most prestigious musical quiz. This week's competitors are from the London area and the South coast of England, and Paul's questions test their knowledge of the classics, jazz, stage musicals and more than sixty years of rock and pop music. The musical extracts include familiar favourites alongside plenty of music you've yet to discover.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Programme Five
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita in E Major
Performer: Jacques Loussier.- MUSIC CLUB.
- MCCD-113.
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Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo a la Russe
Performer: CBSO / Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI Classics.
- 7243 5 85538 2 6.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo: Act III - Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza
Conductor: Georg Solti. Performer: Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.- Decca.
- 421 114-2.
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Scott Walker
Montague Terrace In Blue
- FONTANA.
- 510-879-2.
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Ernie Henry, Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford, Sonny Rollins & Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners
- Riverside.
- 08880-72305014.
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Jacques Offenbach
La Belle Helene
Conductor: René Leibowitz. Performer: The Paris Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus.- Regis.
- RRC2062.
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Chuck Berry
My Ding A Ling
- Chess.
- 6145 019.
Classical Contests
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Carl Maria von Weber
Leise, Leise
Performer: Karita Mattila.![]()
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger (Act 1)
Performer: Eugen Jochum. Performer: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Performer: Plácido Domingo.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 415-2792.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Performer: Freddy Kempf.Gounod & Massenet
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Charles Gounod
Ah Je Veux Vivre - Waltz Song (Romeo & Juliet)
Performer: Maria Callas.- EMI.
- CD CALLAS-1.
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Charles Gounod
Sanctus from Messe Solennelle De Ste Cecile
Conductor: Georges Prêtre. Performer: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France.- EMI.
- CDC 7 47094 2.
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Jules Massenet
Aragonaise (Le Cid)
Conductor: Louis Frémaux. Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.- EMI.
- CDM 7 63024 2.
Classical Water
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Wassermusik - Harlequinade: Der schertzende Tritonus
Conductor: Robert King. Performer: The King's Consort.- Hyperion.
- CDA 66967.
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Ottorino Respighi
Fontane di Roma - La fontana del Tritone al mattino
Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Performer: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.- Decca.
- 410 145-2.
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Franz Liszt
Annees de pelerinage: Les Jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este
Performer: Lazar Berman.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 471 447-2.
Today's competitors
RAY ALLEN, a retired head teacher from Portslade near Brighton
CHRIS BOURNE, a freelance translator and copy editor from London
MARK GRANT, an accountant from Bromley in Kent.
Broadcasts
- Mon 31 Jul 2017 15:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Sat 5 Aug 2017 23:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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