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Sounds of Shakespeare

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show live from Stratford-upon-Avon for the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show live from Stratford-upon-Avon for the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare. With guest poet Ian McMillan helping to start a special day for the town.

BBC Radio 3 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare with a season celebrating the four centuries of music and performance that his plays and sonnets have inspired. Over the anniversary weekend, from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th April, Radio 3 will broadcast live from a pop-up studio at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Other Place Theatre and other historic venues across Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Sat 23 Apr 201607:00
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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen ("Hark, hark! the lark"), D889

    Performer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.

  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco

    The Taming of the Shrew Op.61

    Orchestra: West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • NAXOS.
    • 2.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    "Esultate!" - Otello's entrance, from Otello

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Levine.
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • Anne Dudley

    Strange Capers

    Orchestra: Musicians of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Conductor: Michael Tubbs.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    "If music be the food of love"

    Performer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • RCA.
    • 6.

  • Dag Wirén

    Portia's Castle Orchestra, fifth movement of Romantic Suite (The Merchant of Venice)

    Orchestra: Dala Sinfonietta. Conductor: Stefan Karpe.
    • NOSAG.
    • 5.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Intimations of Immortality

    Choir: Corydon Singers. Orchestra: Corydon Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • HYPERION.
    • 17-18.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Storm, from film music for King Lear

    Orchestra: Belgian National Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • RCA.
    • 14.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Ballet music from Macbeth

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • William Walton

    Henry V - Prologue

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 4.

  • Henry Purcell

    "From rosie bow'rs", from incidental music for Don Quixote

    Orchestra: The Consort of Musicke. Conductor: Anthony Rooley.
    • CORO.

  • Henry Purcell

    Rondeau, from Second Music in The Fairy Queen

    Orchestra: Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • MUSICA OSCURA.
    • 12.

  • Duke Ellington

    Half the Fun, from Such Sweet Thunder

    Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 11.

  • Amy Beach

    "Take, O take those lips away", from Three Shakespeare Songs, Op 37

    Performer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: James Lisney.
    • BIS.
    • 11.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • MERCURY.
    • 5.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    "Tutto nel mondo e burla" (finale of Falstaff)

    Orchestra: Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • EMI.
    • 26.

Broadcast

  • Sat 23 Apr 201607:00
    BBC Radio 3