Most Heavenly Music!
In a concert for the 2000 Stratford-upon-Avon English Music Festival, the BBC
Singers come to the church where William Shakespeare is buried for a programme of 19th-century music and settings of Shakespeare - including the first performance of a new work by Stephen Warbeck , Oscar-winning composer of Shakespeare in Love.
Stephen Betteridge (piano), BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Mendelssohn Richte Mich , Gott;Mein Gott , Mein Gott : Ehre Sei Gott VllhelmStenhammar Varnatt
Max Reger 0 Tod, Wie Bitte
Mahler, arr Gottwald Ich Bin der Welt Brahms Zigeunerlieder , Op 112
Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs
Martin Songs of Ariel
Stephen Warbeck Three Hamlet Songs (BBC commission, first performance) William Mathias Shakespeare Songs