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Heat 2, 2022

Counterpoint Series 35
Episode 2 of 13

Paul Gambaccini chairs the eclectic music quiz, with contestants from Sheffield, East Sussex and London making their bids for the series title

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Paul Gambaccini hosts the second heat of the general knowledge music quiz, with questions and extracts covering a range of music from Handel and Prokofiev to Paul Weller and the Pet Shop Boys. The competitors today will have to prove the breadth of their musical knowledge if they are to win through to the semi-finals and stand a chance of bidding for the Counterpoint champion's title in the spring.

Taking part today are
Andy Cormican from Sheffield
Jo Lawrence from Beckley in East Sussex
Richard Page from Eltham in south-east London.

The contest was recorded in London in front of a socially-distanced audience.

Assistant Producer: Stephen Garner
Producer: Paul Bajoria

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 8 Jan 2022 23:00
麻豆社 Radio 4 FM

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita in E Major

    Performer: Jacques Loussier.
    • THE BEST OF BACH.
    • MUSIC CLUB.
    • MCCD-113.

  • ROUND ONE

  • London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Charles Mackerras,

    Music for the Royal Fireworks - Overture

    • The HMV Collection: Fire.
    • HMV.
    • 5690402.

  • Jennifer Hudson

    Accentuate The Positive

    • RESPECT OST.
    • Epic.
    • n/a.

  • MISS DANIELLE DE NIESE & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Laudate Dominum

    • The Mozart Album.
    • Decca.
    • PROMO-JR7652.

  • The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company

    Being So Great - Richard II

  • Cleveland Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy

    MIDNIGHT (AND WALTZ-FROM CINDERELLA)

    • PROKOFIEV: CINDERELLA.
    • DECCA.
    • 410-173-2/174-2.

  • Madonna

    LIKE A PRAYER

    • THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION.
    • SIRE.
    • 7599-26440 2.

  • ROUND TWO PAUL WELLER AND BRITAIN

  • The Jam

    ETON RIFLES

    • SETTING SONS.
    • POLYDOR.
    • 831-314 2.

  • The Style Council

    HAVE YOU EVER HAD IT BLUE

    • THE SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF THE STYLE COUNCIL.
    • POLYDOR.
    • 837-896-2.

  • Paul Weller

    BLACK IS THE COLOUR

    • STUDIO 150.
    • V2.
    • VVR-1026902.

  • ROUND TWO CANINE COMPOSITIONS

  • Terry Bush

    MAYBE TOMORROW

    • NA.
    • NA.
    • NA-NA.

  • Vladimir Ashkenazy

    Chopin: Minute Waltz

    • The Classical Album 2001 CD1.
    • u/k.
    • u/k.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    SUBURBIA

    • PARLOPHONE :.
    • PARLOPHONE.

  • ROUND 2 A BOOK AT BEDTIME

  • Cast of Les Miserables film

    One Day More (Les Miserables)

    • Les Miserables.
    • First Night.
    • Encore-CD1.

  • ODYSSEY

    NATIVE NEW YORKER

    • ODYSSEY.
    • BIG BREAK.
    • CDBBR-005.

  • ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK

    Emma - Main Titles

    • Emma.
    • hollywood.
    • 0120692-hwr.

  • ROUND THREE

Broadcasts

  • Mon 3 Jan 2022 15:00
    麻豆社 Radio 4
  • Sat 8 Jan 2022 23:00
    麻豆社 Radio 4 FM

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