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Melodies for You was a long-running BBC radio music programme, broadcast on Sunday mornings until 1992 and Sunday evenings subsequently, which presented works of light popular and classical music.
The show was merged with Your Hundred Best Tunes in 2007 by BBC controller Lesley Douglas , who appointed Alan Titchmarsh as presenter.[5] The show was then dropped by controller Bob Shennan with the final broadcast on Sunday, 28 August 2011.[4]
In the final broadcast, Alan Titchmarsh played personal favourites:[6]
Gilbert Vinter and his Orchestra — The Arcadians Overture
Edita Gruberová — Der Holle Rache
Black Dyke Mills Band — The Titchmarsh Warbler
The New London Orchestra — Knightsbridge March
Iona Brown — The Lark Ascending
Jussi Bjoerling and Robert Merrill — Pearl Fishers Duet
Peter Skellern and Richard Stilgoe — Joyce the Librarian
The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines — Sunset
New Symphony Orchestra of London — The Nightmare Song from Isidore
Pat Metheny — Always and Forever
Thomas Round — Love Unspoken from The Merry Widow
BBC Concert Orchestra — Leap Year Waltz
Philharmonia Orchestra — Rose Adagio
Joyce Grenfell — Old Tyme Dancing
Manchester Children's Choir — Nymphs and Shepherds from The Libertine
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Pride and Prejudice
Shirley Jones and Gordon Macrae — If I Loved You
Huddersfield Choral Society and Orchestra — Hallelujah Chorus
References [ edit ]
^ International who's who in music and musicians' directory
^ a b c "Alan Titchmarsh With Melodies For You on Radio 2 comes to a close" (Press release). BBC. 18 August 2011.
^ Paul Donovan (9 November 2008). "Ross and Brand: Radio 2 clean up their act" . The Times . London.
^ Alan Titchmarsh with Melodies for You , BBC , 28 August 2011
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