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  • "Press Among the Popular Throngs" (2016 Audio)

    aka: Pop Sonnets

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Erik Didriksen takes hit songs from artists such as Taylor Swift and Coldplay and rewrites them as Elizabethan-style sonnets. Tumblr, where Didriksen has posted...

  • From Script to Stage to Script (2016 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture

    Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Tiffany Stern. This lecture considers the relationship between ballads and Shakespeare’s plays...

  • "Ay, Prithee, Sing." (2015 Audio)

    aka: Music for Shakespeare’s Lyrics

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The majority of Shakespeare’s plays call for singing — and while the lyrics to the songs appear to have always been a part of the text, the musical notes...

  • The Choir [13/02/2011] (2011 Radio)

    aka: English Madrigals with Emma Kirkby

    Series
    The Choir

    Radio programme. Singer Emma Kirkby joins Aled Jones to sample Elizabethan Madrigals and some modern settings of verses by Shakespeare. Includes ‘Shakespeare Songs’ by Matthew Harris, ‘Songs and...

  • Curse of Rome (2008 Multimedia, Video)

    Director
    Kenneth Doren

    Video work by Kenneth Doren. Doren’s statement from the CASP website: "`The Curse of Rome’ for solo voice subverts Shakespeare’s text of ‘Julius Caesar’ to the restructuring of melodies based on...

  • BBC Proms Chamber Music (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon on 3

    The Proms Chamber Music broadcast that starts of the 4-hour Afternoon on 3 programme is presented by Penny Gore. Tenor Philip Langridge brings a personal contribution to the centenary celebration for...

  • Joseph Summer - What a Piece of Work is Man (2005 Audio)

    aka: What a Piece of Work is Man

    Series
    Shakespeare Concerts

    Shakespeare’s plays and poems set to music by Joseph Summer with Alan Schneider, tenor; Maria Ferrante, soprano; Elem Eley, baritone; Ja-Nae Duane, mezzo-soprano; Barbara Shepherd, French horn; Miroslav...

  • Shakespeare’s Songbook (2004 Audio)

    A book collection of 160 songs - ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs and rounds - that appear in, or are alluded to in Shakespeare’s plays. Drawing heavily on the resources of the Folger...

  • Sweet Power of Music: Songs in Shakespeare, The (2004 Radio)

    Series
    About Shakespeare

    13-part American radio series, hosted by Sharon Swenson, in which Shakespeare scholars discuss aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In this episode Nancy Christiansen, Brigham Young University (BYU), discusses...

  • When Love Speaks (2002 Audio)

    Producer
    Michael Kamen

    A collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets read by actors, and songs inspired by the sonnets. The many performers include John Gielgud, Annie Lennox, Richard Attenborough, Peter Barkworth, Bryan Ferry, Kenneth...