Semi-final 1, 2014
Paul Gambaccini returns to host the wide-ranging music quiz with three semi-finalists from the London area and Derbyshire. From 2014.
Paul Gambaccini returns to host the first of the 2014 semi-finals.
Three heats winners from earlier in the series, return to the BBC Radio Theatre in London to compete for a coveted place in the Counterpoint Final:
* Robert Charlesworth from London
* Ian Clark from East London
* Richard Ely from Derbyshire
The competition may get stiffer but the rules don't change: and each of the semi-finalists will have to choose a special musical topic on which to answer individual questions, with no prior warning of what the subjects are going to be.
Producer: Paul Bajoria
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.
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Music Played
Round One Music
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Jacques Offenbach
The Tales of Hoffmann Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Performer: Joan Sutherland. Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Performer: Richard Bonynge.- Decca.
- 417-3632.
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Sam Cooke
Another Saturday Night
Performer: Yusuf Islam.- POLYGRAM TV/ISLAND.
- 840-148-2.
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Kurt Weill
Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra
Performer: Nona Liddell. Performer: London Sinfonietta.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 423 255-2.
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TIM MINCHIN
The Smell of Rebellion
Performer: Cast of Matilda the Musical.- RSC.
- RSCE 002.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
FETE POLONAISE
Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Paul Paray.- Mercury.
- 475-6183.
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Rita Coolidge
WE'RE ALL ALONE
- EMI.
- 831-646-2.
Round Two Music
Debussy
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Claude Debussy
Preludes Bk 2 - Feux d'artifice (extract)
Performer: Walter Gieseking.- VAIA.
- VAIA 1117-2.
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Claude Debussy
Pagodes [no.1 of Estampes], arr. Grainger for percussion [orig. for piano]
Performer: Geoffrey Simon & The Philharmonia.- Cala.
- CACD 1001.
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Claude Debussy
Children's Corner - The Snow is Dancing
Performer: Walter Gieseking.- VAIA.
- VAIA 1117-2.
Covent Garden & ENO
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Richard Wagner
SIEGFRIED - Hoho! Hoho!
Conductor: Reginald Goodall. Performer: Alberto Remedios. Performer: Sadler’s Wells Opera Orchestra.- CHANDOS.
- CHAN-3045(4).
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Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes - Interlude V
Conductor: Colin Davis. Performer: Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.- Philips.
- 289 462 847-2.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Sempre Libera
Performer: Angela Gheorghiu. Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Sir Georg Solti.- Decca.
- 448-119-2.
Bob Dylan Covered
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DYLAN
MY BACK PAGES
Performer: The Byrds.- COLUMBIA.
- 983-399 2.
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DYLAN
SI TU DOIS PARTIR
Performer: Fairport Convention.- ISLAND MASTERS.
- CIDD-4.
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Bob Dylan
Make You Feel My Love
Performer: Bob Dylan.- Columbia.
- 486936-2.
Today's competitors
ROBERT CHARLESWORTH, a retired financial consultant from London;
IAN CLARK, a videographer from Leytonstone in East London;
RICHARD ELY, a trainer from Alfreton in Derbyshire.
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Mon 24 Nov 201415:00BBC Radio 4- Sat 29 Nov 201423:00BBC Radio 4
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