Sunday Night is Music Night

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The world's longest-running live orchestral programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast from locations throughout the UK

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Sunday Night is Music Night: Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, Rodgers and Hammerstein

'Oh, What A Beautiful Evening!'- a Christmas special celebrating Rodgers and Hammerstein

Anneka Rice and Michael Praed host a star studded celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein's greatest shows- The Sound of Music, Carousel, Oklahoma, South Pacific and The King and I.

From the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Anneka Rice and Michael Praed host a special 'Sunday Night Is Music Night' for Christmas - 'Oh What A Beautiful Evening' - featuring the music of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. 

A star studded cast including Clare Teal, Tam Mutu, John Owen-Jones, Rosalie Craig, Hadley Fraser, Emma Williams and from Broadway, Ron Raines, together with the seventy piece BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Larry Blank, Capital Voices and a fifty voice chorus from the Arts Educational school, celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of 'The Sound of Music' and present songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's greatest musicals, 'The Sound of Music', 'Carousel', 'The King and I', 'Oklahoma' and 'South Pacific'. 

This glittering evening includes a special message from Dame Julie Andrews and features the songs ' I Have Confidence', 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin', 'The Surrey With the Fringe on Top', 'My Favorite Things', 'I Have Dreamed', 'There Is Nothin' Like A Dame', 'Oklahoma', 'If I Loved You', 'Climb Ev'ry Mountain' and many, many more ...

First broadcast in December 2015.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

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