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Heat 4, 2017

Episode 4 of 13

Paul Gambaccini welcomes competitors from Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Somerset to the latest heat of the eclectic music quiz.

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Which film composer's music accompanies Matthew Bourne's new touring production of the ballet The Red Shoes? And in which famously cryptic song lyric of the 1960s do old men play Chinese chequers by the trees?

The competitors in today's contest have no idea what questions await them, but they can be sure they will cover the widest possible range of music. They will also face the notorious specialist round, in which they have to pick from a list of five topics on which to answer individual questions - with no prior notice of what the topics are going to be.

Today's winner goes through to the semi-finals in September.

Producer: Paul Bajoria.

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 29 Jul 2017 23:00

Music Played

  • Programme Four

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita in E Major

    Performer: Jacques Loussier.
    • MUSIC CLUB.
    • MCCD-113.
  • Sam Cooke

    A Change Is Gonna Come

    • ABKCO.
    • 9807-446.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga-Let Me Weep

    Performer: Ewa Mallas Godlewska.
    • TRAVELLING.
    • K-1005.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Sympathy for the Devil

    • ABKCO.
    • ABKCO-8201402.
  • NiccolΓ² Paganini

    Caprice No 5

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • EMI.
    • CDC-747171 2.
  • Sting

    Come Again (Sweet Love Doth Now Invite)

    • deutsche grammophon.
    • dg-170 3139.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird: Infernal Dance of all Kashchei's subjects

    Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 437 850-2.
  • Classical Dreams

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta (La Rondine)

    Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa.
    • FILMTRAX.
    • MOMENT-101.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream - Incidental Music Op 61 Scherzo No. 1

    Performer: George Szell. Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • SONY MASTERWORKS.
    • SK-53549.
  • John Williams

    Dream Country

    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 8732918.
  • Oscar Hammerstein & Friends

  • Oscar Hammerstein II

    Stonecutters Cut It On Stone

    Composer: Richard Rodgers. Performer: Cameron Mitchell.
    • CAPITOL.
    • CDP 7-46635 2.
  • Richard Tauber

    All The Things You Are

    • Encore.
    • ENC-189.
  • Captain Sensible

    Happy Talk

    • A&M.
    • AMA-5026.
  • Musical Chairs

  • The Kinks

    Sittin' On My Sofa

    • ESSENTIAL.
    • ESM CD-507.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Musetta's Waltz Song - Quando M'en Vo

    Performer: Anna Netrebko.
    • DEUTSHCE.
    • 474 240--2.
  • Neil Innes

    Three Piece Suite

    • Hux.
    • B000695IRU.

Today's competitors

SUSAN DAVID, a retired counsellor from Redbourn in Hertfordshire

PETER EATON, a parish councillor from Hintlesham in Suffolk

STEVE LODGE, a stock-taker and former teacher from Bridgwater in Somerset.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 24 Jul 2017 15:00
  • Sat 29 Jul 2017 23:00

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