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Heat 7, 2018

Paul Gambaccini hosts the latest heat of the wide-ranging music quiz, from the 麻豆官网首页入口's venerable Maida Vale studios.

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Three more music lovers join Paul Gambaccini for the toughest music quiz of them all, this week from the 麻豆官网首页入口's Maida Vale studios. As always the competitors face questions on every aspect and genre of music, from ballet and opera to Bond themes and Broadway melodies. They'll also be asked to choose a category on which to answer specialist questions, with no prior warning of the topics on offer.

Taking part are:
Mark Adnitt, a retired civil servant from Taunton
David Greenwood, a project manager from Haslemere in Surrey
Richard Messingham, a Head of Communications from Leystonstone

The winner will take another of the places in the 2018 semi-finals.

Producer: Paul Bajoria

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 22 Sep 2018 23:00

Music Played

  • Counterpoint Programme Seven

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita in E Major

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

    Piano Trio in B flat Op.97 "Archduke"

    Performer: Zingara Trio.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 10572.
  • Offenbach

    Gaite Parisienne

    Music Arranger: Rosenthal. Performer: National Orchestra of France c Lorin Maazel.
    • CBS.
    • CD-42610.
  • 麻豆官网首页入口 Concert Orchestra & Radiohead

    麻豆官网首页入口 One's Blue Planet II Opening Theme

  • The Fishermen's Friends

    Pass Around the Grog

    • Unknown.
    • Unknown.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No. 60 in C Hob XVI:50 (first movement)

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter.
    • RCA.
    • 09026638442.
  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise (Die Krahe)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.
    • Philips.
    • 411 463-2.
  • One Act Operas

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria Rusticana - Brindisi - Viva Il Vino

    Performer: Andrea Bocelli.
    • Universal.
    • 4784376.
  • Gustav Holst

    Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool

    Performer: Adrian Boult. Performer: The New Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 5669342.
  • The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company

    When I, Good Friends, Was Call'd To The Bar

    • CASTLE.
    • CCSCD228.
  • Pastoral Music

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Pastoral Symphony - Symphony No 3

    Conductor: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 82876557082.
  • London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis

    Pastoral Symphony: Messiah

    • Duo.
    • u/k.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen

    Performer: Edith Mathis. Performer: Karl Engel. Performer: Kurt Weber.
    • Novalis.
    • 1500262.
  • Classical Fire

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der, Welcher Wandert Diese Strabe

    Performer: Christoph Strehl. Performer: Dorothea R枚schmann. Performer: Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 00289-4775789.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Feu d'Artifice

    Performer: Igor Stravinsky. Performer: New York Philharmonic.
    • Grove Music.
    • 69948 71960 2 9.
  • Maurice Ravel

    L'Enfant et les sortileges

    Performer: Lorin Maazel. Performer: Orchestre national de France.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 423 718-2.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 17 Sep 2018 15:00
  • Sat 22 Sep 2018 23:00

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