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Morning Performance: Film Music Week: 1: Britain

on BBC Radio 3

Tommy Pearson presents a week of music from the movies. In today's programme he looks at some of the great music written by three of the best British composers to work in the medium: Arthur Bliss, Malcolm Arnold and Richard Rodney Bennett. Rumon Gamba conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by these three, including the music Bliss wrote for Alexander Korda's adaptation of HG Wells's Things to Come, Arnold's music for the 1956 film Trapeze starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, and Richard Rodney Bennett 's music for the 1994 smash hit Four Weddings and a Funeral.

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Arthur Bliss
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Malcolm Arnold
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Richard Rodney
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Alexander Korda
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Richard Rodney Bennett

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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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