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Composer of the Week: Sullivan

BBC Radio 3
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2: St Michael 's Church, Chester Square Donald Macleod hears Sullivan's most famous hymn tune, Onward Christian Soldiers. Plus his earliest surviving composition, 0 Israel; three Shakespeare songs, including Janet Baker singing
Orpheus with His Lute; and excerpts from
Cox and Box a nd The Pirates ofPenzance.
Cello Concerto in D Paul Watkins , BBCSO, conductor Charles Mackerras
We Have Heard with Our Ears Keble
College Choir, conductor Mark Laftin

Contributors

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St Michael
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Chester Square
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Donald MacLeod
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Janet Baker
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Paul Watkins
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Conductor:
Mark Laftin
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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