Shakespeare
Subtitle: in music & words
Contributors: Decca Record Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Subjects: Secular Choruses; Songs and music; English drama; Orchestral music; Operas; Musical settings; Ballets; Excerpts; Songs; English poetry
Notes: "Shakespeare 400."

Title from label.

Various performers.

Vocal selections sung in English, French and Italian; sonnets & scenes spoken in English.
Table of contents: title: disc 1. Music inspired by Shakespeare.; title: Romeo and Juliet, op. 64. Dance of the knights  -- Prokofiev (the Cleveland Orchestra ; Lorin Maazel, conductor); title: Fear no more the heat of the sun, op. 18, no. 3  -- Finzi (Amy Dickson, saxophone ; Aurora Orchestra ; Nicholas Collon, conductor); title: Roméo et Juliette. Ah, je veux vivre  -- Gounod (Renée Fleming, soprano ; London Philharmonic Orchestra ; Charles Mackerras, conductor); title: Theme from Romeo & Juliet : A time for us  -- Nino Rota ; arranged by Andre Rieu (Andre Rieu, violin); title: A midsummer night's dream, op. 61. Scherzo  -- Mendelssohn (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande ; Ernest Ansermet, conductor); title: The fairy queen. O let me weep, for ever weep  -- Purcell (English Chamber Orchestra ; Benjamin Britten, conductor); title: Falstaff. Falstaff! Olà! Sir John Falstaff!  -- Verdi (Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone ; Berliner Philharmoniker ; Claudio Abbado, conductor); title: Romeo & Juliet. Balcony scene  -- Armstrong (Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Prague ; Paul Bateman, conductor); title: Otello. Ave Maria, piena di grazia  -- Verdi (Renée Fleming, soprano ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Georg Solti, conductor); title: Let us garlands bring. Come away, come away, death  -- Finzi (Bryn Terfel, bass baritone ; Malcolm Martineau, piano); title: Macbeth. Coro di profughi scozzesi, "Patria oppressa"  -- Verdi (Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Georg Solti, conductor); title: Suite from Henry V. Touch her soft lips and part  -- Walton ; arranged by Muir Mathieson (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Litton, conductor); title: A midsummer night's dream, op. 61. Wedding march  -- Mendelssohn (Peter Hurford, organ); title: Béatrice et Bénédict. Vous soupirez, madame? ;; title: Nuit paisible et sereine!  -- Berlioz (London Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor); title: Three Shakespeare songs  -- Vaughan Williams (The Choir of King's College, Cambridge ; Sir David Willcocks, conductor); title: Romeo and Juliet. Love theme -- Tchaikovsky (Wiener Philharmoniker ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor).; title: disc 2. Shakespeare in spoken word.; title: Troilus & Cressida. The prologue -- (Paul Hardwick); title: Twelfth night. Orsino discusses his love for Olivia -- (Derek Godfrey, Dorothy Tutin); title: The taming of the shrew. Katherine's advice to women -- (Peggy Ashcroft); title: Much ado about nothing. Benedict confesses his love -- (Christopher Plummer, Geraldine McEwan); title: Hamlet. To be or not to be -- (Ian Bannen); title: As you like it. All the world's a stage -- (Max Adrian); title: Romeo and Juliet. Juliet impatiently awaits Romeo -- (Dorothy Tutin); title: Othello. Othello tells how he won Desdemona's love -- (Sir John Gielgud); title: As you like it. Epilogue -- (Vanessa Redgrave); title: Richard III. King Richard gives way to despair -- (Richard Pasco); title: Julius Caesar. Antony addresses the crowd after Caesar's assassination -- (Richard Johnson); title: Macbeth. Macbeth hears of his wife's death -- (Tony Church, Paul Whitworth, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Pippa Guard, Richard Pasco); title: Sonnet 18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day -- (Richard Pasco); title: Sonnet 73, That time of year thou may'st in me behold -- (Tony Church); title: Sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds -- (Richard Johnson); title: King Lear. Lear and his fool on the heath -- (Donald Sinden, Paul Whitworth); title: Antony & Cleopatra. Antony dies in the arms of Cleopatra -- (Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Tony Church, Pippa Guard); title: The tempest. Prospero renounces his magic powers-- (Donald Sinden, Barbara Leigh-Hunt).