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Alan Titchmarsh presents Melodies for You - a selection of popular classics for Easter Sunday. Including a new feature on Vintage Vocalists.

Alan Titchmarsh with Melodies for You. Alan presents a selection of classics for Easter Sunday including the Easter Hymn and Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni; the Wedding Cake Caprice by Saint Saens and a listener request for "In a Village Churchyard - an Easter Idyll"- a recording once a regular feature on "These You Have Loved" presented by Doris Arnold.

This week sees the start of a new feature on "Vintage Vocalists" as suggested by the listeners. This week Alan looks at the life and career of a cobbler's son from Recanati in Italy. A tenor the public nicknamed "Caruso Secondo" but who preferred to call himself "Gigli Primo" - Beniamino Gigli.

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Sun 24 Apr 2011 19:00
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Music Played

  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Cb Sir Charles Groves

    Orb And Sceptre

    • Spitfire Prelude & Fugue Etc..
    • EMI.
    • 5 672-22 2.

  • Haymes, Dick With Eileen Wilson

    It's A Lovely Day Today

    • 12 Songs From "Call Me Madame".
    • MCA.
    • MCAD-10521.

  • Birds, Bells, Organ And Choir

    In A Village Churchyard - An Easter idyll

    • Single.
    • His Master's Voice.
    • 7EG 8591.

  • Beniamino Gigli

    Vesti La Giubba

    • Beniamino Gigli In Opera And Song.
    • CONIFER.
    • CDHD-227.

  • National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana

    • Your Hundred Best Tunes: Volume 2.
    • DECCA.
    • 425 848-2.

  • Columbia Pictures Orch C.B. Morris Stoloff

    Theme - Moonglow and Picnic

    • Unforgettable Fifties.
    • Heartland Prods Inc..
    • CD 0867.

  • Freni, Mirella /Luciano Pavarotti/Vpo Cb Von Karaj

    Viene La Sera

    • Puccini's Greatest Love Songs.
    • DECCA.
    • 425-099 2.

  • Hough, Stephen Cbso C/B Sakari Orami

    The Wedding Cake

    • The Complete Works For Piano & Orchestra.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDA-67331/2.

  • Dunvant Male Choir And Band Of The Welsh Guards

    Morte Christe - When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

    • A Welsh Celebration For Band And Choir.
    • BANDLEADER.
    • BNA-5057.

  • Maria Callas

    Easter Hymn

    • Cavalleria Rusticana.
    • HMV.
    • E291269-1.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Apr 2011 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2