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Shakespeare-themed radio programme. Orchestral music, mainly by Mendelssohn, Germain and Sullivan, with old and modern settings of Shakespearean lyrics followed by passages from The Taming of the Shrew....
Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Incidental Music Op. 61 played by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The Orchestra and the Scottish Philharmonic Singers are conducted by Jaime Laredo. The Opus 61...
Radio broadcast. The Western Studio Orchestra lead by Frank Thomas plays incidental music to Shakespeare’s plays. Nicolai’s Overture for The Merry Wives of Windsor is followed by Mendelssohn’s Scherzo...
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 4 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM includes...
Dance. Excerpts from Frederick Ashton’s ballet The Dream danced by the Joffrey Ballet and directed and staged by John Hart. Music by Mendelssohn, arranged by John Lanchbery. Videotaped in studio rehearsal...
Radio broadcast presented by John Brunning introducing music on St. George’s Day and the anniversary Of Shakespeare’s death. Shakespeare-related music covers Patrick Doyle’s ‘Overture’ from MUCH...
Ballet. George Balanchine’s ballet, music by Mendelssohn, danced by Pacific Northwest Ballet and recorded at the Sadler’s Wells theatre in February 1999. The vocal pieces are sung by Libby Crabtree and...
BBC Proms concert live from the Royal Albert Hall. In the second half the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs a semi-staged performance of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream conducted by...
Radio broadcast. In this first of four Proms Saturday Matinee concerts, Petroc Trelawny introduces readings from Shakespeare, interspersed with music inspired by his plays performed by the Britten Sinfonia....
Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the subject of the moon as a symbol of purity, as a capricious, changeable being, as an object to reach in the imagination and through scientific...
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