Brush Up Your Shakespeare

Alternative title: 2: Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
Synopsis: Second in a series of radio programmes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds introduces the following pieces of music:
Haydn’s "She Never Told Her Love", with April Cantelo (soprano), Raymond Leppard (harpsichord); Clifton’s "If Music be the Food of Love" and Addison’s "O Mistress Mine" performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) and Graham Johnson (piano); Henze’s "Sir Andrew Aguecheek" (Royal Winter Music II) is performed by Dietmar Kres; "O Come Away, Death" by Sibelius is played by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jorma Panula with Jorma Hynninnen as baritone; Heise’s "When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy" with Ignace Strafogel (piano) and Lauritz Melchio (tenor).
Series: Sound Stories
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Recording date: 28 Apr 1999
Transmission details: 15 Jun 1999 at 11:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 60 mins

Producer: Piers Burton-Page
Music: Franz Joseph Haydn; Hans Werner Henze; Jean Sibelius; John Addison; John Clifton; Peter Arnold Heise
Contributor: Peggy Reynolds

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