It’s NOT the World Cup of (largely) classical music. This is the complete playlist of gams in Group G
Each team in each game of round one of the football represented by a short piece of music from the country. And then listeners picked one from each head to head. Results below
Game 1
1.BRAZIL – José Mauricio Nunes Garcia: Overture in D
SERBIA – Isidora Žebeljan: U krčmi (In the Inn)
- SWITZERLAND – Ernest Bloch: Prayer (from ‘Jewish Life’)
CAMEROON – Eboa Lotin: Munyengue Mwa Ngando
Game 2
- BRAZIL – Hector Villa Lobos The Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No.2
SWITZERLAND – Arthur Honegger, Pacific 231 - SERBIA – Ljubica Marić: Byzantine Concerto, Mvt2
CAMEROON – Francis Bebey: Esok Am
Game 3.
- SERBIA – Stevan Hristić: Ohridska Legenda Grlica (legend of the turtle dove)
SWITZERLAND – Iris Szeghy: … Perpetuum mobile - CAMEROON – Anne-Marie Nzie: Kugluku
BRAZIL – Chiquinha Gonzaga: O Abre Alas
RESULTS:
- Switzerland bt Cameroon
- Brazil bt Serbia
- Cameroon bt Serbia
- Brazil bt Switzerland
- Serbia & Switzerland – draw
- Cameroon & Brazil – draw
BRAZIL win the group with CAMEROON taking 2nd place, and they go into round 2!