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Radio programme presented by John Shea showcasing a sequence of music with a featured Proms performer. In this episode Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace in music from Mendelssohn’s...
Animation. A meditation on A Midsummer Night’s Dream blending pastels, pencil, water colour, and cels to evoke the clown’s bewildering experiences. Set to the Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer...
Ballet performed by the Hamburg Ballet; music by Mendelssohn and Gyorgy Ligeti and choreographed by John Neumeier.
Radio broadcast. Excerpts from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are performed by Lady Tree, wife of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, as part of a programme for children. Felicity Tree sings and Victor...
A special, fully-staged production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s complete incidental music, broadcast on air, online and via red button. Director Tim Carroll introduces the production...
Dance. Recording of three ballets by Frederick Ashton, conducted by Emmanuel Plasson from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The first is The Dream featuring Akanet Takada as Titania, Steven McRae and...
Fourth in a series of ‘literary nights’ showcasing Shakespeare’s plays on radio. The programme is conducted with critical commentary by Professor Cyril Brett. Performances are by members of the Cardiff...
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...
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