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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F major, Op. 3/5 'Serenade'
Orchestra: Janacek Quartet
Geoffrey Grigson
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sat 16 Oct 1982
Critic, Poet
Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Geoffrey Grigson.
Choices
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Benjamin Britten
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Soloist: Peter Pears, Dennis Brain Orchestra: Boyd Neel String Orchestra Conductor: Benjamin Britten
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Henry Purcell
When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
Soloist: Victoria de los Angeles Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra Conductor: John Barbirolli
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Castaway's favourite
Joseph Haydn
She never told her love (Canzonetta)
Soloist: Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten
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Benjamin Britten
Death be not proud (from The Holy Sonnets of John Donne)
Soloist: Peter Pears Orchestra: Zorian String Quartet Conductor: Benjamin Britten
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Giuseppe Verdi
Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) (from Nabucco)
Orchestra: La Scala Chorus and Orchestra
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