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Friday Night is Music Night with Rainer Hersch.

Friday Night is Music Night with Rainer Hersch.

In a programme orginally broadcast for Red Nose day Rainer sets out to prove that classical music doesn't have to be serious. No stranger to the radio airwaves Rainer's presented many series for BBC Radio 4, but this is his first appearance as conductor and presenter of the world's longest running orchestral radio show - Friday Night is Music Night.

Tonight's programme will feature the BBC Concert Orchestra and the London Voices with Rainer's own take on Pachelbel's Canon, the William Tell Overture, Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter and Leopold Mozart's Concerto for Hosepipe and Strings. There will be memories of musical legends Gerard Hoffnung and Victor Borge; and a rare performance of the Missa Hilarious by PDQ Bach.

Ken Bruce will be on hand as master of ceremonies.

Concert first broadcast on 17th March 2017.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Fri 26 Jan 201820:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    Friday Night Is Music Night Opening Sig Tune

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    Toccata Mambo

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Barwick Green

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    Soviet Archers

  • Alasdair Malloy & BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    THE TYPEWRITER

  • Victor Borge

    PHONETIC PUNCTUATION

    • CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
    • PHILIPS.
    • BBE-12154.

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    DANCE OF THE COMEDIANS

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch & LONDON VOICES CONDUCTED BY TERRY EDWARDS

    The Choir

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch & LONDON VOICES CONDUCTED BY TERRY EDWARDS

    SEX BOMB

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    VANITY FAIR

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    Karaoke Orchestra

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch & London Voices

    Pachelbel Canon Mash Up

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    OVERTURE: WILLIAM TELL

  • Gerard Hoffnung

    Bricklayers Lament

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch & Gareth Hulse

    The Watermill

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch & Sam Pearce

    Concerto For Hosepipe and Strings

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    Choral Symphony Variations

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch, Daniel Auchincloss, James Oldfield & London Voices

    Missa Hilarious

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    Minuet

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    Carmen Overture

  • BBC Concert Orchestra CB Rainer Hersch

    Friday Night Is Music Night Closing Sig Tune

Broadcasts

  • Fri 17 Mar 201720:00
    BBC Radio 2
  • Fri 26 Jan 201820:00
    BBC Radio 2

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