Semi-Final 2, 2017
Paul Gambaccini asking the questions as three heat winners compete for a place in the 2017 final.
(11/13)
Which jazz drummer was a child prodigy in the 1920s, reputedly earning more than any child performer apart from the film actor Jackie Coogan? And in which film did Marni Nixon, whose singing voice had doubled for many a famous film star down the years, finally first appear on screen?
Paul Gambaccini has the answers to these and many other questions in the second semi-final of Counterpoint - but will the competitors know? Another of the places in the 2017 Final awaits the winner of today's contest. To get that far, as always, they'll have to put in a creditable performance on a musical 'specialist subject' which they've had no chance to prepare.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Semi-Final Two
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita in E Major
Performer: Jacques Loussier.- MUSIC CLUB.
- MCCD-113.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Night On The Bare Mountain
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.- London.
- 443 896-2.
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Harry James
Sleepy Lagoon
- VOCALION.
- CDLF-8100.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 (second movement)
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 435 350-2.
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Talking Heads
Psycho Killer
- EMI.
- STOP-15.
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Joe Brown
I'll See You In My Dreams
- Joe Brown Records.
- UGCD 008.
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Alfred Schieske & Orchester des Theater des Westens
Bringt mich punktlich zum Altar
- Philips.
- S 08644 L.
British Music Hall & Musical Comedy
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Max Miller
The Hiking Song
- EMI Comedy Classics.
- CDECC-10.
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Howard Talbot
The Girl With The Brogue
Composer: Lionel Monckton. Performer: Ann Howard. Performer: The John McCarthy Singers.- EMI.
- 789-057 2.
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Billy Merson
The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
- HAPPY DAYS.
- CDHD-154.
The Appliance of Science
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Tom Lehrer
The Elements
- Rhino.
- un-known.
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Johann Strauss II
Perpetuum Mobile
Performer: The Berlin Philharmonic c. Herbert Von Karajan.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 423-2212.
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Thomas Dolby
She Blinded Me With Science
- EMI.
- 99420.
Elgar
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Edward Elgar
Finale: Allegro (Variation XIV; E.D.U) from the Enigma Variations
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 463 265-2.
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Edward Elgar
In The South (Alassio)
Performer: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.- DG.
- 463-265-2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537
Composer: Edward Elgar. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen. Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic.- Sony Classical.
- SK 89012.
Today's semi-finalists
GARRY HOLLAND, a writer from Oxfordshire
STEVE LODGE, a stock-taker and former teacher from Bridgwater in Somerset
JOHN TATTERSALL, a retired nurse from Todmorden in West Yorkshire.
Broadcasts
- Mon 11 Sep 201715:00BBC Radio 4
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