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Performance on 3: BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers, Shakespeare

BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers, Shakespeare

03/06/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers, Shakespeare

The BBC CO and Singers in Shakespeare settings by British composers.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. BBC CO and BBC Singers perform settings of works by Shakespeare, including Walton's Richard III, Vaughan WIlliams' Henry IV. Plus Bridge and Gardner.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

The BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers join forces for a concert exploring British composers' settings of works by the great English bard William Shakespeare.

The programme includes suites by William Walton for the classic films Richard III and Henry V, and Ralph Vaughan Williams' much-loved setting of words from The Merchant of Venice. Also there's Frank Bridge's miniature gem of a tone poem and Shakespeare Songs by Cyril Rootham and Giles Swayne. With readings by Simon Paisley Day.


William Walton arr. Mathieson: Richard III - A Shakespeare Suite

John Gardner: nos 1, 2, 4, 5 from Seven Songs 

Frank Bridge: There is a willow grows aslant a brook

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Richard II (extracts)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs 
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Henry IV 

Cyril Rootham: 2 Shakespeare Songs 

Giles Swayne: 3 Shakespeare Songs 
William Walton (arr. Muir Mathieson): Suite: Henry V 

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill conductor


Followed by performances by students at the Royal Academy of Music

Handel Semele Act I Scene I Chorus - Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs 
Royal Academy Opera and Baroque Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras conductor
(CD of live recording from 2009 performance)

Live performance - 
Telemann Sonata in E minor for oboe and continuo - "Essercizii Musici" TWV 44:e6 
Laurence Cummings harpsichord and Leo Duarte baroque oboe


JS Bach Cantata BWV45 'Es ist dir Gesagt' (opening chorus) 
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra & Chorus 
Iain Ledingham conductor
(CD of Live recording from Royal Academy of Music / Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series)


Rameau Dardanus - Lieux funestes, où tout respire; L'Air de triomphe 
Allan Clayton Dardanus 
Royal Academy Opera and Sinfonia 
Laurence Cummings conductor
(CD of live recording November 2006).

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