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Last broadcast on Sat, 3 Apr 2010, 20:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

For Easter weekend on Radio 4, Paul Gambaccini's in the quizmaster's chair for a very special edition of the long-running music quiz, 'Counterpoint'.

The quiz covers the usual broad mixture of musical styles - but all the extracts and musical clues in this special edition will be played live in the studio by the BBC Philharmonic, taking a breather from their current Mahler season of concerts.

Answering Paul's questions, and identifying the extracts, are three musical celebrities - soprano and radio presenter Catherine Bott; conductor and comedian Rainer Hersch; and musician, writer and comedian Kit Hesketh Harvey.

The BBC Philharmonic will be providing plenty of surprising arrangements of familiar melodies, from Tchaikovsky to Take That. You can hear which of the celebrity panellists proves to have the broadest musical knowledge in this unique collaboration recorded with an enthusiastic audience at BBC Manchester.

MUSIC IN THIS PROGRAMME

Wagner: Die Meistersinger - Act 1 Prelude
Walton: March 'Orb & Sceptre'
Elgar: Symphony No.1 - 1st Movement
Take That: Rule The World
Noel Coward: The Stately Homes of England
Stock, Aitken, Waterman: I Should Be So Lucky

Debussy: Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Wagner: Die Walkure - 'Ride of the Valkyries'
Bizet: Carmen - Prelude
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet - 'The Montagues and the Capulets'

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - Overture
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4 Finale
Verdi: La Forza del Destino - Overture

Dvorak: Symphony No.9 Slow movement
Mahler: Symphony No.5 Adagietto
Purcell: Dido And Aeneas - 'When I Am Laid In Earth' (Dido's Lament)

Mozart: Symphony No.40 (backwards)
Britten: A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (backwards)
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (backwards)

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 - Adagio
Chopin: Prelude in C Minor, Op.28 No.20
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances - 'Gliding Dance of the Maidens'

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet - 'Juliet As A Young Girl' with Bernstein: West Side Story - Opening
Rimsky Korsakov: 'Flight of the Bumblebee' from The Tale of Tsar Sultan, with Scott Joplin: 'The Entertainer'
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Opening - with Tchaikovsky 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' from The Nutcracker

Bizet: Carmen - Habanera
Ravel: Bolero
Puccini: Turandot - 'Nessun Dorma'

Broadcasts

  1. Fri 2 Apr 2010
    12:00
    BBC Radio 4 (FM only)
  2. Fri 2 Apr 2010
    12:04
    BBC Radio 4 (LW only)
  3. Sat 3 Apr 2010
    20:00
    BBC Radio 4

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