Spirit World, The

Synopsis

Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the theme of the spirit world. The programme includes an excerpt from Verdi’s Macbeth. Dominic West’s reading of the Apparition Scene soliloquy from Hamlet is followed by the musical adaptation of the same scene in Ambroise Thomas’s opera Hamlet. The programme closes with the slow movement from Beethoven’s Ghost Trio, a piece which is thought to be based on sketches for an opera based on Macbeth, a project that was never realised.

Series

Words and Music

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

Notes

For details of the music and verse featured in this programme, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic (accessed 4/2008).

Subjects

Drama; Music

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Producer

Tim Prosser

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Ambroise Thomas; Giuseppe Verdi; Ludwig van Beethoven

Cast

Dominic West

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email

listening@bl.uk

Web

http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7412 7676

Fax

020 7412 7441

Address

96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB