Friday Night is Music Night [10/06/2011]

Synopsis: Radio programme celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company with music written for Shakespearean adaptations in film, theatre, ballet and opera. Includes soliloquys performed by members of the RSC. The music ranges from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Verdi’s Macbeth, William Walton’s score for Henry V and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. There’s also music from Patrick Doyle’s score for the Kenneth Branagh film versions of Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate, Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys From Syracuse, West Side Story and the film SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
Roderick Dunck conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Series: Friday Night is Music Night
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 10 Jun 2011 at 20:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 2)
Duration: 120 mins

Music: Cole Porter; Felix Mendelssohn; Giuseppe Verdi; Leonard Bernstein; Patrick Doyle; Richard Rodgers; Sergei Prokofiev; William Walton
Contributor: Robert Dunck

Theatre company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Production type: Other
Plays: Comedy of Errors, The; Henry V; Macbeth; Merry Wives of Windsor, The; Midsummer Night’s Dream, A; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet; Taming of the Shrew, The
Subjects: Drama; Music
Keywords: Royal Shakespeare Company; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); musical adaptations

Notes: For a detailed list of the music played in this programme see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011mqnm

British Universities Film & Video Council