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Morning Performance: Shakespeare in Music: 5: Royals and Peers

BBC Radio 3
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Christopher Cook ends his survey of musical responses to Shakespeare's plays with some of the most stirring music in the repertoire.

Walton, arr Mathieson Suite: Henry V - BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Paul Bateman

Liszt Hamlet - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Smetana Richard III - BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Christian Gansch

Verdi Macbeth (Act 4, excerpt) - Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Kok

Shostakovich King Lear

Berlioz Overture: King Lear - BBC PO, conductor Vassily Sinaisky

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Presenter:
Christopher Cook
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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