BBC Proms 2016 [18/08/2016]

Synopsis: BBC Proms concert live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Penny Gore presents a Prom celebrating Shakespeare-inspired music from the stage and screen. Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert with a transatlantic flavour in all-British first half and a second part devoted to American musicals. Walton arr Muir Mathieson: Prelude (Richard III). Finzi: Suite (Love’s Labour’s Lost). Sullivan: The Tempest, Op
1 (Overture to Act 4). Walton compiled Christopher Palmer: As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare. Joby
Talbot: Springtime Dance (The Winter’s Tale). Bernstein:
Symphonic Dances (West Side Story). Porter: Another
Openin’, Another Show; Always True to You; Where is the
Life that Late I Led?; So In Love (Kiss Me, Kate). Rodgers/Hart: Dear Old Syracuse; You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea; Falling in Love with Love; Sing for your Supper; This Can’t Be Love (The Boys from Syracuse). Porter: Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Kiss Me, Kate). Hannah Waddingham, Anna-Jane Casey, Sarah Eyden, Graham Bickley (singers), BBC Concert Orchestra/Keith Lockhart.
Series: BBC Proms 2016
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 18 Aug 2016 at 19:30 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 165 mins

History: Including 8.20 Interval: Proms Extra. Michael Pennington explores the depiction of actors and acting as a metaphor in Shakespeare’s plays. Sarah Dillon hosts the recording with an audience at Imperial College Union in London

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