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Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Alternative title
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
Synopsis
Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. Part 4 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM includes excerpts from Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rotterdam Philharmonic/Jeffrey Tate), Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner), Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox) and Lampe, Pyramus and Thisbe (Opera Restored/Peter Holman).
Series
Sound Stories
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Radio
Transmission details
21 May 1998 at 11:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration
60 mins

Credits

Producer
Piers Burton-Page
Music
Benjamin Britten; Felix Mendelssohn; Henry Purcell; John Frederick Lampe
Contributor
Peggy Reynolds

Additional Details

Production type
Documentary/Educational/News
Plays
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
Subjects
Drama; Music
Keywords
Music; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email
listening@bl.uk
Web
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Phone
020 7412 7676
Fax
020 7412 7441
Address
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NW1 2DB

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