Just one recording today, which starts with a trail for Amazon.
Then it’s the next episode of Maestro – Opera.
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This week the contestants have to conduct operatic arias. The soloists are Rebecca Evans and Alfie Boe.
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Sue Perkins conducts O Mio Babino Caro by Puccini.
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She scores 32.
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Katie Derham has to conduct Just One Cornetto, more properly known as O Sole Mio.
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She got rather upset in the rehearsals, and at least two of the judges said they thought her mentor was not helping her properly. Awkward. She scores 29.
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Goldie conducts Un Moto di Gioia by Mozart from The Marriage of Figaro.
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He scores 27.
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jane Asher conducts E luchevan le stelle from Puccini’s Tosca.
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She scores 29.
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Alex James’ wife is at full term with their baby, so he’s hoping the baby doesn’t come on the day of the performance. It comes during the week, though.
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He conducts Summertime, by Gershwin, from Porgy and Bess.
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He scores 23.
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Before the orchestra vote to save two of the contestants, judge Simone Young conducts a duet, O Soave Fanciulla. A piece of music that can make me cry. And has.
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Her fellow judges seem to have liked it.
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The vote is supposed to be to save one from the bottom three, but due to a tie, it’s a bottom four.
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The orchestra votes to save Goldie and Jane Asher, so we say goodbye to Katie and Alex.
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Media Centre Description: Clive Anderson hosts Maestro’s next studio challenge as five famous amateurs with a passion for classical music do battle with their batons conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra. In the fourth round the students step up to the podium to conduct a programme of popular operatic arias sung by soloists Alfie Boe and Rebecca Evans in front of the panel of expert judges – conductors Sir Roger Norrington and Simone Young, double bassist Dominic Seldis, composer and cellist Zoe Martlew.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Tuesday 2nd September 2008 21:00
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Tuesday 2nd September 2008 21:00