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Richard Strauss
Beim Schlafengehen (from Four Last Songs)
Soloist: Lisa Della Casa Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Karl Bohm
Jennifer Vyvyan
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Broadcast
First broadcast: Mon 18 Jul 1966
Opera singer - soprano
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Jennifer Vyvan.
Choices
2.
Edith Evans & John Gielgud
The Way of the World (Act 4)
3.
Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes Act 2, Scene 2
Soloist: Peter Pears Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Conductor: Benjamin Britten
4.
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Flight of the bumble-bee (from The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Soloist: George Malcolm
5.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Soloist: David Oistrakh Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Dmitri Mitropoulos
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Robert Schumann
Intermezzo (from Liederkreis, Op. 39)
Soloist: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore
8.
Castaway's favourite
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soave sia il vento (from Cosi fan tutte)
Soloist: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nan Merriman, Sesto Bruscantini Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
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