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Saint-Saens' Years at the Madeleine
4: Poetry, Proust and the Madeleine
In conversation with musicologist Jean-Michel Nectoux ,
Richard Langham Smith unravels a literary connection and discusses Saint-Saens as a scene painter, transcriber and innovator.
Le Rouet d'Omphale
The Composer (piano roll) Violin Sonata No I in D minor
Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Marc Neikrug (piano) Le Deluge (excerpts) Soloists
National Orchestra of the Ile de France/
Jacques Mercier
Etude en forme de valse, Op 52 No 6
Alfred Cortot (piano roll) Records

Contributors

Musicologist:
Jean-Michel Nectoux
Unknown:
Richard Langham Smith
Violin:
Pinchas Zukerman
Piano:
Marc Neikrug
Piano:
Alfred Cortot
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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