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  1. Falstaff (1938 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Evening Concert

    Elgar’s symphonic study is performed by the BBC Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.

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  2. King Lear (1937 Radio)

    Series
    BBC Orchestra, The

    Radio broadcast. Led by Aylmer Buesst, the BBC Orchestra plays Haydn’s composition which was originally composed to accompany a performance of King Lear in Esterhaz castle. It is comprised of an overture,...

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  3. Otello (1937 Radio)

    Director
    Charles Moor

    Verdi’s opera relayed in its entirety from the opening performance of the Covent Garden international opera season at the Royal Opera House, London. With Giovanni Martinelli as Otello and Fernanda Ciani as...

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  4. Falstaff (1937 Radio)

    Following a five-minute introduction, the third Act of Verdi’s comic opera (the second of the pranks played upon Falstaff), is broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The Royal Opera...

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  5. Ode on Dedicating a Building to Shakespeare (1937 Radio)

    Producer
    Felix Felton

    Radio broadcast of the ode written by David Garrick, with music by Arne, for the Stratford-upon-Avon Jubilee of 1769. Julian Herbage conducts The Boyd Neel String Orchestra and The BBC Singers. With Ion...

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  6. Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1937 Radio)

    Director
    Ernst Schoen

    Radio broadcast of scenes from Otto Nicolai’s opera. The BBC Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by George Knepler, with Ernst Schoen as director. The opera is performed in English, translation by D....

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  7. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1937 Television)

    Director
    Stephen Thomas
    Producer
    Stephen Thomas

    Televised recording of a masque arranged from the fairy scenes of the play. With music by Felix Mendelssohn conducted by Hyam Greenbaum.

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  8. Top of the Town (1937 Film)

    Director
    Ralph Murphy; Walter Lang

    Musical set in Manhattan. An heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located on the top of a 100-storey skyscraper. Extravagantly produced and a huge flop. Includes a scene in a nightclub in...

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  9. Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936 Film)

    Director
    Roy Mack

    Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...

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  10. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The (1936 Radio)

    aka: Katerina Izmaylova

    Radio transmission of a special concert of Shostakovitch’s opera in four acts, organised and relayed by the BBC from Queen’s Hall, London. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Albert...

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