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Third in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is joined by drama students from the Royal Scottish...
Radio documentary. Part 1 of an eight-part series in which Howard Goodall explores links between musical genres. In the first episode Goodall chooses music inspired by the works of Shakespeare with excerpts...
Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. Part 5 MACBETH includes excerpts from Verdi’s...
Radio programme marking 85 years of weather forecasting on the BBC with poetry and music. The programme includes an excerpt from Shakespeare’s King Lear ('Blow wind and crack your cheeks’) read by Mark...
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the femme fatale, an idea exemplified (among others) in the figure of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra. The programme starts with...
Radio broadcast. Tony Robinson tells modern versions of original tales against a background of music they inspired. This first programme features the story of star-crossed lovers set against the music of...
An anthology in words and music of Shakespeare’s writings about love. The songs by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Sullivan, Poulenc and Cecilia McDowall are performed by soprano Gillian Humphreys, with...
Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Chris Johnston and Alexander Sovronsky about the use of mood music and...
Featuring the music of Laura Mvula and speeches heard from Iqbal Khan’s 2017 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Antony and Cleopatra. This release also includes 6 minutes of Antony Hopkins’s music...
Radio broadcast. Graham Fawcett reflects on Romeo and Juliet as interpreted by composers Bernstein, Bellini and Gounod.