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Semi-final 2, 2014

CounterpointSeries 28
Episode 11 of 13

Paul Gambaccini welcomes with three more semi-finalists from the Vale of Glamorgan, Wiltshire and Cheshire. From 2014.

Paul Gambaccini hosts the second 2014 semi-final of the wide-ranging music quiz.

The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock and pop.

Three more competitors are in the BBC's Maida Vale studios for the second semi-final.

*John Durbin from the Vale of Glamorgan
*Mike Kemp from Wiltshire
*Stephen Whitaker from Chester

Producer: Paul Bajoria

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Dec 202504:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Music Played

  • Round One Music

  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Fanciulla Del West

    Conductor: Franco Capuana. Performer: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • Decca.
    • 421 595-2.

  • DWIGHT BARKER

    THE NAVY LARK SIG TUNE - TRADE WIND HORNPIPE recording

    Performer: * Tommy Reilly.
    • EMI.
    • CDEMS-1554.

  • Madness

    THE PRINCE

    • VIRGIN.
    • CDV-2862.

  • Krzysztof Komeda

    Rosemary's Baby: Lullaby

    Performer: Mia Farrow.
    • BMG.
    • IFPI L551.

  • ANTONY HOPKINS

    Mock Mozart

    Composer: Peter Ustinov. Performer: USTINOV, PETER ACCOMPANIED BY ANTONY HOPKINS.
    • Parlophone.
    • 07243-53263126.

  • Ferde Grofé

    Huckleberry Finn

    Conductor: Howard Hanson. Performer: Eastman-Rochester Orchestra.
    • Mercury.
    • 434 355-2.

  • Round Two Music

  • MEL BROOKS FILMS & MUSIC

  • Anne Bancroft & Mel Brooks

    SWEET GEORGIA BROWN

    • n/a.
    • n/a.

  • REINER, CARL AND MEL BROOKS

    THE 2000 YEAR OLD MAN

    • TVT.
    • 9432-2.

  • Mel Brooks

    Springtime for Hitler

    • RCA Victor.
    • 828765-12902.

  • Water in Music

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Die Moldau - Vltava

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 417 587-2.

  • Bob Nolan

    COOL WATER

    Performer: Burl Ives.
    • Brunswick.
    • LAT 8395.

  • Mitzi Gaynor

    I'M GONNA WASH THAT MAN OUTA MY HAIR

    • RCA.
    • ND-83681.

  • Stokowski & Toscanini

  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours

    Conductor: Leopold Stokowski. Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • Walt Disney.
    • DSTCD 452 D.

  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal - Prelude to Act 1 (extract)

    Conductor: Arturo Toscanini. Performer: NBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA.
    • 74321 59482 2.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    SYMPHONY NO. 7 'LENINGRAD', OP.60 IN C MAJOR

    Conductor: Arturo Toscanini. Performer: NBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA.
    • GD60293.

Today's competitors

JOHN DURBIN, a humanist celebrant from the Vale of Glamorgan;

MICHAEL KEMP, from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, who's retired;

STEPHEN WHITAKER, a second hand book dealer from Neston in Cheshire.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 1 Dec 201415:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sat 6 Dec 201423:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Thu 4 Dec 202514:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 4 Dec 202520:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 5 Dec 202504:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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