This World’s Globe - Celebrating Shakespeare

Synopsis

The 2 CD set celebrates the Globe experience with musicians and actors of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London.
Actors Liam Brennan, Tom Burke, John McEnery and Mark Rylance are featured in their performances as Romeo, Orsino, John of Gaunt and King Richard II. Also featuring material from Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing with introductions in the original pronunciation of Shakespeare’s time. All music is played on period instruments and there are excerpts of live performances on the Globe stage.
Disc 1 - ‘The Play’s The Thing’ is a sampler and guide to ‘hearing at the Globe’ - audience and actor can be heard together in some rare recordings of live performances from the Globe stage itself.
Disc 2 - ‘Groundlings to Gods’ assembles a wide range of music from Shakespeare’s time. The collection reflects the hierarchy of Elizabethan and Jacobean society, which the Globe’s architecture itself embodies  - music of the gods, tears of the muses, fanfares for kings and princes, courtly dances, music for banquets, songs, exuberant jibs and bawdy entertainment for taverns and brothels.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Audio

Year of release

2006

Notes

The double CD package features a 32-page full colour booklet with images from productions.
For a detailed list of contents see the Signum Classics website at http://www.signumrecords.com/catalogue/sigcd077/index.htm

Subjects

Drama; Music

Keywords

Elizabethan music; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); theatre history; Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; Elizabethan English

Credits

Director

John Dove; Tamara Harvey; Tim Carroll; Timothy Walker

Producer

Martin Cotton

Editor

Andrew Mellor; Raphael Mouterde

Music

Claire van Kampen; Keith McGowan; William Lyons

Cast

John McEnery
Liam Brennan
Mark Rylance
Peter Forbes
Philip Bird
Tom Burke

Production Company

Name

Signum Records Ltd.

Email

enquiries@signumrecords.com

Web

http://http://www.signumrecords.com/ External site opens in new window

Phone

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8997 4000

Fax

Fax: +44 (0) 20 8998 5767

Address

Suite 14 21 Wadsworth Road Perivale
Middlesex
UB6 7JD
United Kingdom

Distributor (Sale)

 

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