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Music for Shakespeare… Dreams, Lovers and Ghosts
· 1 h 28 min
Episode Music for Shakespeare… Dreams, Lovers and Ghosts
The relationship between classical music and William Shakespeare's writing is one of the longest and most productive partnerships in the history of either art form. Composers have been drawn to Shakespeare's plays for four centuries and there is a vast amount of music to choose from. For this episode I have nine pieces, but only from four plays which suggests that some of the plays are perhaps more beloved by composers than others… Music from composers responding to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Hamlet' and 'Othello'. And those composers… ranging from the 19th century to the 21st are… Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten, Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi, Dmitri Shostakovich, Frederick Delius and Thomas Adès.
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