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Richard Tauber

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Richard Tauber.

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Fri 25 Sep 194220:00
Forces Programme

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture

    Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Arturo Toscanini

  • Percy B. Kahn

    Ave Maria

    Soloist: Enrico Caruso

  • Marlene Dietrich

    Falling In Love Again

  • Richard Tauber

    Symphonic Prologue and Epilogue to an Imaginary Play

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Edvard Grieg

    Last Spring (from Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Eugene Goossens

  • Greta Keller

    These Foolish Things

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 6 in B minor 'Pathétique'

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky

  • Tristan und Isolde

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

Credits

PresenterRoy Plomley
Interviewed GuestRichard Tauber

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Sep 194220:00
    Forces Programme

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