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Shakespeare Day

As part of Radio 3's celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publishing of the first Shakespeare folio, Georgia Mann presents a special Shakespeare-related programme.

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Wed 8 Nov 202309:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Matthew Locke

    The First Musick (The Tempest)

    Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Locke: The Tempest; Biber: Battalia.
    • Teldec.
    • 32-34.

  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georges Prêtre.
    • New Year's Concert 2010.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Garden Scene (Much Ado About Nothing)

    Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Performer: Alasdair Beatson. Ensemble: Eusebius Quartet.
    • Korngold: Chamber Works.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 203.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Dance of the Shapes (The Tempest Op.109)

    Orchestra: Royal Danish Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Sibelius: The Tempest, Op. 109 (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 117.

  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobhán Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.

  • William Walton

    Overture 'The Globe Playhouse' (Henry V)

    Choir: Choristers of Westminster Cathedral. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Chandos.

  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae Pavan

    Music Arranger: Thomas Morley. Ensemble: Dowland Consort. Director: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Heavenly Noyse: Download Consort/Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
    • 21.

  • Michael Nyman

    Prospero's Magic (Prospero's Books)

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band. Director: Michael Nyman.
    • Prospero's Books.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Thomas Morley

    Go from my window

    Performer: Colin Tilney.
    • Sono Luminus.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • CBS.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Willow Song (Othello - suite Op.79)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.

  • Amy Beach

    Take, O take those lips away (3 Shakespeare Songs Op.37)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: James Lisney.
    • Bis.

  • Robert Johnson

    3 Masque dances

    Music Arranger: Tim Crawford. Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O’Dette. Performer: Robert Meunier. Performer: Bill Badley. Performer: Hugh Cherry. Performer: Paula Chateauneuf. Performer: Tim Crawford. Performer: Martin Eastwell. Performer: Tom Eve. Performer: Michael Fields. Performer: Roxana Gundry. Performer: Anja Lutzow. Performer: Klaus Jacobson. Performer: David Miller. Performer: David Parsons. Performer: Steven Player. Performer: Torbjorn Sonderquist. Performer: Richard Stone. Performer: Clive Ungless. Performer: Roy Goodman.
    • Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
    • BIS.
    • 8.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Othello Overture

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • LPO.

  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen (Horch, horch) D.889

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Llŷr Williams.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Patrick Doyle

    Prelude / O for a Muse of Fire (Henry V)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Warriors of the Silver Screen.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 14.

  • Anonymous (15th Century)

    The Agincourt Carol

    Ensemble: The Binchois Consort. Conductor: Andrew Kirkman.
    • Music For The 100 Years War.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Hamlet (Ball at the Palace)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Thomas Arne

    Under the Greenwood Tree (As You Like It)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook.
    • BIS.
    • 7.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made in Britain.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Macbeth and the Witches

    Performer: Jitka Čechová.
    • Supraphon.

  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • DG.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Onyx.
    • 04.

  • Thomas Campion

    Move now with measured sound

    Ensemble: The Newberry Consort. Director: Mary Springfels.
    • A Candle in the Dark: The Newberry Consort.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Cha-Cha; Meeting Scene; Cool Fugue; Rumble; Finale

    Orchestrator: Sid Ramin. Orchestrator: Irwin Kostal. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Bernstein: West Side Story: New York Philharmonic, Berstein.
    • CBS.

Broadcast

  • Wed 8 Nov 202309:00
    BBC Radio 3