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On the 25th anniversary of Noël Coward's death, Petroc Trelawny includes hit songs from the shows, including at 8.20 Nina from
Argentina. His music selection also includes Musorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain is performed by the London Philharmonic (conductor Klaus Tennstedt ) at 6.00, and Canteloube's Bailero from the Songs of the Auvergne follows the 7.00 news, sung by Frederica von Stade (mezzo), with the Royal Philharmonic. There is ballet music at 7.15 from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, and, following the news at 8.00, Zubin Mehta conducts the Los Angeles PO in Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.

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Conductor:
Klaus Tennstedt
Sung By:
Frederica von Stade
Unknown:
Zubin Mehta

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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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