A four-part survey of some of the many ways composers have taken
Shakespeare's plays as the basis for music. In the last of the series,
Peter Conrad looks at the tragedies -
Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear- and finds versions by Verdi,
Rossini, Ambroise Thomas , Strauss, Wolfgang Rihm , Aribert Reimann and Shostakovich.
Producer Piers Burton-Page