Semi-final 3, 2025
Paul Gambaccini asks the questions to decide who takes the last of the places in the final of the wide-ranging music quiz.
(12/13)
There's one remaining place in the 2025 Counterpoint Final and it will go to the winner of today's contest. The three players today have all won their respective heats earlier this series, and will be on their mettle as they face Paul Gambaccini's eclectic questions. Anything could come up from film themes to grand opera, ballet music to prog rock, classic jazz to the music of video games.
They will also each have to choose a special topic on which to answer their own set of questions, with no prior warning of what the subjects are going to be.
Appearing are:
Eleanor Ayres from Cambridge
Jim Maginnis from County Armagh
Clive Manning from London.
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Producer: Paul Bajoria
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita in E Major
Performer: Jacques Loussier.- The Best of Bach.
- MUSIC CLUB.
- MCCD-113.
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Benjamin Britten
Irish Reel (Around the Village Green)
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Debbie Wiseman
Do Not Go Gentle
Performer: Tom Hollander. Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.- A Poet in New York.
- Silva Screen Records.
- SILCD1446.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Rake's Progress
Performer: Nadine Sierra. Performer: THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.- The Rake's Progress.
- Columbia.
- ML-6051.
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Frank Sinatra
L.A. Is My Lady
- My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra.
- Reprise.
- 9362-46712-2.
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Michael Ball & Alfie Boe
Up Where We Belong
- Together At 91热爆.
- Tag8 Music Ltd.
- TAG80035LP.
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Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
Joy And Pain
- The Very Best Of Jazz Funk (Various.
- Global Records & Tapes.
- RADCD-129.
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Charlie Parker
My Little Suede Shoes
- Live At Rockland Palace.
- Charlie Parker.
- CP-502.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein Orchestra
IF I Loved You
Performer: John Raitt.- CAROUSEL ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING.
- MCA.
- MCAD-10048.
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Billie Holiday
God Bless The Child
- Blood, Sweat & Tears.
- CBS.
- CDCBS 63504.
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Julie Andrews
The Sound of Music
- CLASSIC JULIE: CLASSIC BROADWAY.
- DECCA.
- 468-593-2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 9 Kreutzer
Performer: Nemanja Radulovi膰.- Beethoven Violin Concerto Violin Sonata No 9.
- Warner Classics.
- 5054197743399.
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Beethoven
Leonore III Overture
Performer: Seiji Ozawa. Performer: Saito Kinen Orchestra.- Beethoven: Leonore 3.
- Decca.
- 4850027.
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Beethoven
Wellington's Victory, Op. 91
Performer: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Performer: North-South Skirmish Association (Cannons and Muskets).- Battle Music of Beethoven & Liszt - Kunzel/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
- TELARC.
- CD80079.
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Maria Rimsky-Korsakov
Sheherezade
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Mackerras.- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Capricco Espagnol: Mackerras.
- Telarc.
- CD80208.
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Carl Nielsen
Dance of the Prisoners
Performer: San Francisco Symphony.- Aladdin Suite.
- Decca.
- 50027.
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Mikl贸s R贸zsa
Thief of Baghdad
Performer: N眉rnberger Symphoniker.- A Centenary Celebration.
- Var猫se Sarabande.
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