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Sound Stories: Five Great Rivers: 5: The Mississippi

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod.

Including excerpts from:
Rodgers...Mississippi River Blues - Jimmie Rogers (vocal)
Coleridge-Taylor...Hiawatha - Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, conductor Kenneth Alwyn
Handy...St Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
Thomson...Suite: The River - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, conductor Neville Marriner
Gottschalk...Le Bananier - Philip Martin (piano)
Kern...Ol' Man River (Showboat) - Soloists, London Sinfonietta, conductor John McGlinn

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Presenter:
Donald MacLeod
Source: Radio Times

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