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Verdi and Shakespeare (2016 Video)
aka: Verdi: The Shakespeare Operas
A 4-DVD boxed set. Contents: MACBETH staged by Phyllida Lloyd with Simon Keenlyside and Liudmyl Monastryska as the Macbeths, Antonio Pappano conducts from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. OTELLO staged...
Friday Night is Music Night [22/04/2016] (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Friday Night is Music Night
Michael Maloney introduces a special Shakespeare-themed festival of music. Performers include the National Youth Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ben Parry, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra conducted by Mark...
Sounds of Shakespeare, The (2016 Radio)
- Series
- In Tune
Sean Rafferty and guests launch BBC Radio 3’s Sounds of Shakespeare weekend with a live showcase of the weekend’s musicians, singers and performers, including the world premiere of Love Sought - a new...
Sounds of Shakespeare, The (2016 Radio)
BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service charts the magical chemistry between Shakespeare’s language and the music it has given life to over the last 400 years - from Romeo and Juliet to The Tempest.
Garrick Ode (2016 Radio)
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- Radio 3 in Concert
A world premiere commemorative concert in Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon. Ex Cathedra, conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore, perform Thomas Arne’s 18th- century musical setting of An Ode to Shakespeare by...
Shakespeare Masque, A (2016 Radio)
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- Radio 3 in Concert
A Shakespeare Masque, written by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and composed by Sally Beamish. Ex Cathedra and City Musick are conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
World on 3 [22/04/2016] (2016 Radio)
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- World on 3
Mary-Ann Kennedy celebrates the global influence of Shakespeare’s work - with live performances including the visiting Nola Jazz band from New Orleans, and guest Andrew Dickson, author of "World Elsewhere:...
Building a Library (2016 Radio)
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- Record Review
Presented by Andrew MacGregor. Roger Parker recommends a recording of Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff.
Shakespeare on Record (2016 Radio)
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- Record Review
Explores the ways in which Shakespeare’s verse has been performed on disc. With actors Hugh Quarshie and Samuel West and Shakespeare scholar Kate Kennedy.
Music Matters [23/04/2016] (2016 Radio)
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- Music Matters
Music magazine series. Tom Service explores the music in Shakespeare’s plays and Shakespearean music from the BBC archives, with composer Gary Carpenter and theatre historian Sarah Lenton.