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Entente Cordiale
It’s Saturday 24 July, and today we are pleased to present a selection of classical music from Britain and France.
In fact the emphasis is somewhat more on the French, but we’ll be hearing from a number of British composers such as Elgar, Vaughan Williams and of course Frederic Delius, who, while born in England, spent the latter part of his life across the Channel.
From the French side we will be featuring Poulenc, Fauré, Chopin (who was Polish born but became a French citizen) Debussy, Ravel and Berlioz, with performances both traditional and not so.
We also have a selection of “cross-channel” pieces in a somewhat lighter vein.
Today you can also hear the latest edition of “Where’ve You Been?” — details here — where we visit The Borderless Project’s amazing art installation, at 12 noon or 4pm Pacific / 8pm or midnight in the UK — and don’t miss “Engines of Our Ingenuity” — presented by the University of Houston: the series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them. The programme is broadcast every 4 hours from 4am Pacific.