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Surro The Polignac Salon

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Second in a series of ten programmes devoted to some of the music associated with the salon of the Princesse Edmond de Polignac, who devoted her share of the Singer sewing-machine fortune to the patronage of the arts. Today. Debussy and Ravel are encountered in the Princess's salon, and the music to be heard also includes a work dedicated to her by Gabriel Faur é, the Suite: Pellets and Mllisande. Written and narrated by Piers Burton-Page gramophone records

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Gabriel Faur
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Piers Burton-Page
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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