Spirit World, The

Synopsis: Radio programme featuring a selection of poetry and music on the theme of the spirit world. The programme includes an excerpt from Verdi’s Macbeth. Dominic West’s reading of the Apparition Scene soliloquy from Hamlet is followed by the musical adaptation of the same scene in Ambroise Thomas’s opera Hamlet. The programme closes with the slow movement from Beethoven’s Ghost Trio, a piece which is thought to be based on sketches for an opera based on Macbeth, a project that was never realised.
Series: Words and Music
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 27 Apr 2008 at 22:15 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 105 (total)

Producer

Tim Prosser

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Ambroise Thomas; Giuseppe Verdi; Ludwig van Beethoven

Cast

Dominic West

Notes: For details of the music and verse featured in this programme, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic (accessed 4/2008).
General: Words and Music is a BBC Radio 3 evening series that offers a selection of classical music, interspersed with poetry and prose chosen to illustrate a theme. The literary excerpts are read by leading actors.

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