Friday Night is Music Night [10/06/2011]

Synopsis
Radio programme celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company with music written for Shakespearean adaptations in film, theatre, ballet and opera. Includes soliloquys performed by members of the RSC. The music ranges from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Verdi’s Macbeth, William Walton’s score for Henry V and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. There’s also music from Patrick Doyle’s score for the Kenneth Branagh film versions of Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate, Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys From Syracuse, West Side Story and the film SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
Roderick Dunck conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Series
Friday Night is Music Night
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Radio
Transmission details
10 Jun 2011 at 20:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 2)
Duration
120 mins

Credits

Music
Cole Porter; Felix Mendelssohn; Giuseppe Verdi; Leonard Bernstein; Patrick Doyle; Richard Rodgers; Sergei Prokofiev; William Walton
Contributor
Robert Dunck

Additional Details

Theatre company
Royal Shakespeare Company
Production type
Other
Plays
Comedy of Errors, The; Henry V; Macbeth; Merry Wives of Windsor, The; Midsummer Night’s Dream, A; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet; Taming of the Shrew, The
Subjects
Drama; Music
Keywords
Royal Shakespeare Company; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); musical adaptations

Notes

Notes
For a detailed list of the music played in this programme see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011mqnm

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email
listening@bl.uk
Web
http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window
Phone
020 7412 7676
Fax
020 7412 7441
Address
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Friday Night is Music Night [10/06/2011]". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av73917 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)