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: Swashbucklers!

Swashbucklers!

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, Swashbucklers!

To the Greenwood! Hoist your mains! En garde! Sunday Night plays the Swashbucklers!

Michael Praed presents the Swashbucklers! The BBC Concert Orchestra plays classic film scores including Robin Hood, Zorro, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. 

Michael Praed, television's most memorable Robin Hood, returns to the greenwood to present a special Sunday Night is Music Night: the Swashbucklers!. 

The 60-piece BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Richard Balcombe, will cut and thrust their way through some of the greatest film scores ever written for the swordsmen of the silver screen. 

Including Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Sea Hawk and Robin Hood, Alfred Newman's Zorro, Hans Zimmer's Pirates of the Caribbean, John William's Indiana Jones and Star Wars and Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings. 

Classical repertoire includes Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Khachaturian's Spartacus and, as used in the Russell Crowe film Master and Commander, Boccherini's String Quintet in C Major. 

Michael will also read extracts from high adventure novels, including Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk and The Three Musketeers. 

Not to be missed by adventurers young and old - All for one and one for all!

First broadcast in July 2015.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

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