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Sound Stories: Musical Playwrights: 3: Schiller

on BBC Radio 3

With Peggy Reynolds.

Goethe said that Schiller was magnificent "even when cutting his fingernails". Schiller was one of the greatest playwrights of 18th-century Germany. He based many of his works on the great figures of history, like Joan of Arc, Mary Stuart and William Tell. His interpretations were so exciting that almost all of his plays were turned into operas.

Rossini Overture: William Tell - La Scala Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
Verdi Overture: I Masnadieri - Chicago SO, conductor Georg Solti
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral) - Soloists, chorus, Philharmonia, conductor Otto Klemperer
Smetana Wallenstein's Camp - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds.
Unknown:
Mary Stuart
Unknown:
William Tell.
Conductor:
Riccardo Muti
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Conductor:
Smetana Wallenstein
Conductor:
Rafael Kubelik

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