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Reel Love: Valentine’s Day Special

Celebrate love on screen with Edith Bowman - with music from Sense and Sensibility, Gone with the Wind and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Edith Bowman brings you a specially curated playlist of film scores for Valentine's Day, including Patrick Doyle's Sense and Sensibility, Max Steiner's Gone with the Wind, and Henry Mancini's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Plus music by John Williams, James Horner and Dario Marianelli. In Harmonising Hollywood, Composer and conductor Eimear Noone explores David Raksin’s hauntingly romantic score for the 1944 noir classic Laura, and in Pick of the Flicks Radio 3's Music Planet presenter Lopa Kothari spotlights the music of Howard Shore.

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Saturday16:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Alan Silvestri

    Father of the Bride (1991) "Main Title"

    • Varese Sarabande.

  • Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Lisa Batiashvili

    Cinema Paradiso (1988) "Theme"

    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • John Williams

    Raiders of the Lost Ark "Marion's Theme"

    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Patrick Doyle

    Sense and Sensibility "My Father's Favourite"

    • Sony Classical.

  • Max Steiner

    Gone with the Wind "Tara's Theme"

    • Decca.

  • Henry Mancini

    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    • Blue Note Heritage.

  • Gustavo Santaolalla

    Brokeback Mountain "Brokeback Mountain 1"

    • Verve Forecast.

  • Rachel Portman

    Emma "End TItles"

    • Hollywood Records.

  • Stephen Warbeck

    Shakespeare in Love "The Beginning of the Partnership"

    • Sony Classical.

  • Jean‐Yves Thibaudet

    Pride and Prejudice (2005) "Dawn"

    • DECCA.

  • John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra

    Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones "Across the Stars"

    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Howard Shore

    The Truth About Cats and Dogs "Cats and Dogs"

    • A&M Records .

  • James Horner

    Titanic "Rose"

    • Sony Classical.

Broadcast

  • Saturday16:00
    BBC Radio 3

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  • Valentine's

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  • Sound of Cinema

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