Bruckner and trains

[Cardigan]

The opening bars of the fourth movement of Dvořák's z nového světa sound remarkably like a steam train accelerating from rest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqtJH2f1Yk

The rest of it may also be familiar.

[ppppenguin]

I find it hard to listen to the New World symphony without thinking of "Television Comes to London"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH7AxAOfeIk

Can't find a full version online at the moment. I think there's one somewhere on the BBC website.

The other music in the film is by Lalo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i2eA4WgOcY

[ppppenguin]

Glad to say that I now have a copy of the programme and a transcript too. Both came to me via "backdoor" channels that I mustn't compromise by publishing them. I've attached the first page of the transcript.