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Castaway's favourite
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 In G Minor
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Luciano Pavarotti
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sat 14 Feb 1976
Opera singer - tenor
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
Choices
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Che farò senza Euridice (What is Life?) (from Orpheus and Euridice)
Soloist: Tito Schipa
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Gaetano Donizetti
Pour mon âme (Qual destino) (from The Daughter of the Regiment)
Soloist: Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Conductor: Richard Bonynge
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Gaetano Donizetti
Era d'amor l'immagine (from Maria Stuarda)
Soloist: Luciano Pavarotti Orchestra: Teatro Communale Orchestra Conductor: Richard Bonynge
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral'
Orchestra: Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Georg Solti
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Unhatched chicks (from Pictures at an Exhibition)
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Zubin Mehta
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Giuseppe Verdi
Dies irae (from Requiem Mass)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
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