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Dig out your top hat and bustle, cover those table legs and get into the In Tune Mixtape. It's 80s night! The tunes that defined a decade, from those soulmates Brahms and Dvorak to Gilbert and Sullivan, Gounod and Debussy, Sousa and Tchaikovsky.

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Tue 15 Jun 202119:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral March Of A Marionette

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.

  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral March of a Marionette

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Marches & Overtures a la Francaise: Paray.
    • Mercury.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Love unrequited... When you're lying awake (Iolanthe)

    Performer: Richard Suart. Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Orchestra: D’Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce‐Jones.
    • That's Entertainment.

  • John Philip Sousa

    The Washington Post - march

    Performer: Julian Leaper. Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major Op.81 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss. Ensemble: Elias String Quartet.
    • ONYX.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic.
    • Giulini in America: Los Angeles Philharmonic/Giulini.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 3.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Conductor: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Belle nuit (Les contes d'Hoffmann)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    1812 Overture, Op 49

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Ensemble: Royal Dutch Marine Band. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 7 Jan 201919:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Tue 15 Jun 202119:00
    BBC Radio 3

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