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US music series presenting classical music on television. The Kansas City Philharmonic, led by conductor Jorge Messter, plays Tchaikovsky’s fantasy-overture in the Cowtown Ballroom before an audience of...
Radio programme. A two-part series in which Humphrey Carpenter investigates the attraction of Shakespeare for musicians and composers. Part 1 claims that Shakespeare’s works have inspired over 20,000...
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...
Third concert in a week’s series of BBC Radio 3 ‘Afternoon Performances’ dedicated to showcasing music written for and inspired by the works of Shakespeare and other literary authors. The...
Documentary film recalling the first Elizabethan age through surviving architecture, art, furniture, music and literature. The music, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is played by the London Sinfonia and sung by...
Radio broadcast. The actor duo William Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner recite excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays: Henry VIII - Cardinal Wolsey’s Farewell As You Like It - The Seven Ages of Man Macbeth -...
A concert for the 2000 Stratford-upon-Avon English Music Festival. The BBC Singers come to Holy Trinity Church in a programme of 19th-century music and settings of Shakespeare. Pieces are: Mendelssohn...
A mixed radio programme comprised of music and 10-minute excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays. The musical pieces are played by the Glasgow Station Orchestra (with Herbert A. Carruthers as conductor). Effie...
Following a 15-minute introduction, the Glyndebourne Opera Festival Chorus performs Verdi’s Macbeth during the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama. The production is relayed from the...
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....