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Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...
Recorded at the 2013 Bregenz festival, this production of the Merchant of Venice is the premier of the only opera by the pianist and composer, André Tchaikowsky.
Radio programme. In this episode of his weekly series on work from various composers of the past three centuries, Charles Hazlewood examines the ‘Fantasy Overture’ from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo And Juliet....
First in a series of five radio programmes presented by Donal Macleod exploring the life and work of French composer Paul Dukas (1865-1935). This episode features an early Overture after Shakespeare, ‘Le...
Radio broadcast. Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Giuseppe Verdi and introduces highlights from Otello. He also considers the composer’s final contribution to the stage, based on...
Series in which a composer and a director collaborate to devise and make an original music work for television. 1 (director: Simon Reynell; composer: James Dillon) A distorted reflection of a single moment...
In the third episode of the radio series exploring the life and works of Vaughan Williams, presenter Donald Macleod explores the composer’s Shakespeare opera - Sir John in Love, and his Elizabethan and...
Radio programme in which pieces of classical music and speech illustrate the seven ages of Jaques’s speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The Wireless Orchestra is conducted by Stanford Robinson....
Radio programme dedicated to Shakespeare’s works in music and verse. J. Forbes Knowles and Neil Mclean perform Act III, iii of Much Ado About Nothing (19:55-20.05) and the ‘tent scene’ (III iii) from...
Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores two of Tchaikovsky’s composer’s key works, The Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet and the Sixth Symphony, The Pathetique. In the first programme he examines the...
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