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Down Your Way? "The Horseguards, Whitehall" but Don B has already posted this - sort of! Haydn Wood!
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"When the music stops, Daphne Oxenford will be here to tell you a story." "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin."
Listen with Mother (for all you youngsters who don't recognise those words).
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Pleased to note so many replies--thanks, all.
Really I was thinking of already established pieces of music which became sig tunes at a later date.
Re the query about whether the Forsyte Saga music was specially composed, no, it wasn't. It was Elizabeth Tudor from Eric Coates' suite the Three Elizabeths, composed in 1944.
Mention of Listen with Mother certainly reminds me of the wonderful Berceuse from Faure's Dolly Suite, which was played at the close of the programme, after they'd told us about tomorrow. But they played a short piece early on in the programme also and this changed every week. "Are you ready for the music (and on Mondays--it's different today). When the music stops, Daphne Oxenford (or whoever) will be here." Pieces that I remember from this opening section include Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Little Swans from Swan Lake (which became a lifelong favourite of mine from its use on the programme), the same composer's Chinese Dance from the Nutcracker and the first of Francis Poulenc's Mouvements Perpetuels, which is one of those tunes that everyone knows but not so many can name.
Keep posting here!
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What was that Radio 4 travel programme from years back? I liked the signature tune but now I can't remember how it went! Can't recall who presented it either...  Could this be 'Breakaway' (by Denny Dennis and Geraldo and his music?) presenter Bernard Falk, amiable scouser who ran dodgy travel agents up the wrong way and sadly died aboard his mysteriously runaway speedboat... |
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Another board has reminded me of Glazunov's The Seasons, I think Autumn. It's the sort of tune you hear and if you've been round the block a bit, immediately think "Ah, the Home Service." But what it introduced, I can't remember for the life of me.
And I didn't realise Listen with Mother was so highbrow. In fact all my earliest memories of broadcasting are of the TV. I do remember the day we first got ITV. I'd never heard a northern accent before.
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Sibelius At the Castle Gate, from The Sky at Night
PW, which work is that from? I had no idea it was Sibelius! It's from the incidental music to Pelleas et Melisande. I've watched The Sky at Night since I was a schoolboy. It was only years later that I "discovered" Sibelius and realised I'd been unknowingly listening to his music for decades! But I don't think I've ever heard all of Pelleas et Melisande. I must put it on my [ever-growing] list... |
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While on this subject, I'll repeat an unanswered question from a few weeks ago, if I may:
Les Chasseresses from Delibes' ballet Sylvia is really familiar. I think it was used on a television programme, probably in the 70s. Does anybody know which programme? (It might have been something to do with ships, as that's the image the music evokes in my mind.)
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I don't think I've ever heard all of Pelleas et Melisande. I must put it on my [ever-growing] list...
If you have not yet invested in too much of its content, may I recommend Bis's "The Essential Sibelius"? 15 well filled discs (only one is less than 70 minutes, and two are over 80 minutes), of fine recorded performances (Lahti SO/Vanska in the symphonies, for instance). There are two entries for it at Amazon UK, and for the best price for delivery to the UK you have to consider the issue of customs duty, etc., so the one offered at £42.34 plus £1.24 p&p from France looks the best option. The apparently cheaper offers from the other side of the Pond could cost an arm and leg in Customs and Post Office charges. |
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What was that Radio 4 travel programme from years back? I liked the signature tune but now I can't remember how it went! Can't recall who presented it either... Could this be 'Breakaway' (by Denny Dennis and Geraldo and his music?) presenter Bernard Falk, amiable scouser who ran dodgy travel agents up the wrong way and sadly died aboard his mysteriously runaway speedboat... YES!!! That's the one! Thanks marbleflugel.  |
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I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the Onedin Line yet. Or did I miss it?
(the Love Scene from Spartacus in Phrygia, by Katchaturian, IIRC)
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Crown Court, the rather wonderful 1970s ITV show usually aired at weekday lunchtimes, had the 4th movement of Janacek, Sinfonietta as its sig. toon.
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Nice recall, Mart-That was Granada TV in its creative heyday-really good fit to the mood. I like Debbie Wiseman's Elgarian theme to Judge John Deed (aka Nail the Bastards) for similar reasons.
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What was that music quiz with Robin Ray, Joyce Grenfell etc ? Face The Music ? Anyway, the theme to that was Walton's Facade I believe.
As it was for the Childrens Hour series Mompty and Peckham ('As the Cat said to the Dog') on the old Home Service, oooh, some time in the late 1890s I suppose it must have been. Certainly in the period when you had to turn the wireless on a minute or so before the starting time for the valves to warm up (honest). |
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Granada used one of Malcolm Arnold's English Dances for What the Papers Say, and, unless I'm much mistaken, wasn't part of the final movement of Rachmaninov's first symphony used for Panorama in the 60s?
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