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Geoffrey Smith presents Shakespeare-inspired jazz including Cleo Laine and John Dankworth’s Shakespeare and all that Jazz, and Duke Ellington’s suite, Such Sweet Thunder.
A new jazz work by Ken Rattenbury inspired by the ‘seven ages of man’ speech from As You Like It. The soliloquy is spoken by Alan Reeve-Jones and the music is conducted by the composer.
Alyn Shipton presents listeners’ requests as well as music from surprise guests, as part of Radio 3’s Sounds of Shakespeare weekend. Listeners join Alyn from the audience to introduce their requests on...
A live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Geoffrey Smith. Jazz musicians John Dankworth and Cleo Laine celebrate their 80th birthdays with a combination of Shakespeare and jazz. Dankworth...
A concert set by saxophonist Andy Sheppard and pianist Guillaume de Chassy performing music inspired by characters from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Recorded on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the 2014 London...
A four-part series, presented by Russell Davies, which analyses and deconstructs a selection of outstanding jazz scores, discovering how each arrangement actually works and what was in the mind of the...
Shakespeare set to music by John Dankworth and performed by Cleo Laine. Tracks are: Compleat Works, Sigh No More, Ladies, Fear No More, Witches, Fair and Foul, Shall I Compare Thee, Blow, Blow Thou Winter...
Duke Ellington composed incidental music for a Timon of Athens production at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in 1963. Ellington’s sketches and partial score remained in the Stratford archives since then...
Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 4: Count Orso offers a modern Viola a spectacular twelfth night, with a wardrobe beyond most cross-dressers’ dreams.
Mary-Ann Kennedy celebrates the global influence of Shakespeare’s work - with live performances including the visiting Nola Jazz band from New Orleans, and guest Andrew Dickson, author of "World Elsewhere:...
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