Music for the Theatre

Alternative title: Theatre Music: Shakespeare
Synopsis: First in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. A team of actors joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for specially recorded scenes from Hamlet by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. These are preceded by the first Russian musical work written for a play by this ‘inspired barbarian. Also included:

Gerald Finzi’s music for a radio performance of Love’s Labours Lost.
Balakirev, Overture from King Lear (Conductor: Tito Ceccherini)
Giuseppe Verdi, Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello (Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda)
Thomas Arne, When daisies pied and violets blue
(Conductor: Peter Holman)
Dmitri Shostakovich, King Lear, Op 58a
Series: Afternoon on 3
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 16 Apr 2012 at 14:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 180 mins

Music: Dmitri Shostakovich; Gerald Finzi; Giuseppe Verdi; Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev; Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Thomas Arne
Contributor: Penny Gore

General: Radio series focusing on recent performances by the BBC Philharmonic and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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