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Swan Song

on BBC Radio 4 FM

with Eric Porter as Frederic Chopin On 16 November 1848 Chopin played for the last time in public, at London's Guildhall. A week later he returned to Paris. He was already gravely ill. He had arrived in England earlier that year and spent six months teaching and giving recitals, most of them in private houses.
PEGGY BRANFORD has compiled an account of the visit from Chopin's own letters to his relatives and friends. Narrator GARY WATSON
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

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Eric Porter
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Frederic Chopin
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Peggy Branford
Narrator:
Gary Watson
Producer:
Alan Haydock

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