107.8 Black Diamond FM Your Community Radio Station in Midlothian

Tonight on the late show its the first Sunday of July so it's the Full Monty and

I will play

Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto #2 in C minor in full

Written and first performed by the composer in 1934 in Baltimore and conducted by Leopold Stokowski, you'll remember this from the 1945 film, Brief Encounter (or, perhaps not) which was based on Noel Cowards one act play, Still Life. This film regularly appears on Top 100 British Film listings and was even voted #2 by critics as recently as 2005 !!!

The concerto itself consistently appears in the top 5 of a certain commercial classical radio stations chart.

Indeed, it has done since the inception of that top 300 chart.

Quite a feat. So it clearly strikes a chord (forgive the pun) with the UK public. And so it should.

On the General Playlist we heard...

Mozart - Mass in C, Kyrie
Brahms - Symphony #4 in E, Allegro

Batman Begins OST - Molosus, Corynorhinus, Myotis, Eptesicus, Tadarida
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Liebestod
Einaudi - Dietro casa
Bellini - Bianco et Fernando, Sorgi et padre figlia Anne-Marie Owens mezzo soprano
Wagner - Gotterdammerung, Siegfrieds funeral march
Liszt - Liebestraum #3
Pachelbel - Canon in d
Schubert - Impromptu in A flat
Tchaikovsky - Barcarolle from the seasons
Villa-Lobos - Bacchianas Brasillieras
Glass - Candyman OST