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With Edward Seckerson.

Billings Easter Anthem: The Lord is Risen Indeed - His Majesties Clerkes/Paul Hillier

6.45 Respighi San Gregorio Magno (Suite: Church Windows) - Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy

7.05 Durufle Four Motets on Gregorian Themes - Corydon Singers/Matthew Best

7.35 Holst The Hymn of Jesus - London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox

8.00 Barber Second Essay for orchestra - St Louis SO, conductor Leonard Slatkin

8.40 Sibelius Night Ride and Sunrise - Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon Rattle

Contributors

Presenter:
Edward Seckerson

Bach Sinfonia (Easter Oratorio, BWV249) - Collegium Vocale/Philippe Herreweghe

9.05 Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs - Holst Singers/Stephen Layton

9.15 Addinsell Warsaw Concerto - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff

9.25 Handel Trio Sonata in F, Op 2 No 4 - The Cambridge Musick

9.45 Arnold English Dances, Set - Queensland SO, conductor Andrew Perry

10.15 Tippett/Britten/Berkeley/Warton/Oldham/Searle Variations on Sellenger's Round - Guildhall String Ensemble, conductor Robert Salter

10.30 Bach Cantata No 4: Christ Lag in Todesbanden - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, conductor Karl Richter

11.00 Hummel Variations on a Theme from Gluck's "Armide", Op 57 - Howard Shelley (piano)

11.25 Bizet Symphony in C - Montreal SO, conductor Charles DutoitÂ

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Kay
Producer:
Fiona Shelmerdine

Radio 3 presents a special day of programmes celebrating the life and work of William Shakespeare on his birthday.

12.00 Shakespeare Masterclass 1
Cicely Berry conducts the first of the day's three masterclasses on rehearsing Shakespeare, working with a small group of actors on excerpts from Hamlet, Henry V and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The classes were given last month in front of an audience at the Central School of Speech and Drama. The actors contributing are Susan Brown, Paul Bhattacharjee, Tom George, Clare Cathcart and Antony Ryding.

12.15 Shakespeare's London
Writer Iain Sinclair walks the streets of London in the company of historians, scholars and archaeologists, seeking out echoes of Shakespeare's city in the London of today. As he visits the court, the river, the sites of Elizabethan playhouses and the reconstructed Globe theatre, he discovers how the city was reflected in Shakespeare's plays and reveals the life Shakespeare led in London 400 years ago.

1.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Shakespeare at Middle Temple
A recital from Middle Temple, London, where Shakespeare himself performed Twelfth Night. Actors Emma Fielding and Simon Russell-Beale are joined by Lisa Milne (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), the BBC Singers and Iain Burnside (piano) to perform excerpts from Shakespeare's plays alongside musical settings by Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Tippett, Schubert, Poulenc and others.

2.30 Nutmegs and Ginger
Instrumental pieces from Shakespeare's day, including the popular melody from a street crier's song.

2.45 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Humphrey Carpenter introduces an Opera North production of Britten's operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy, given earlier this year in the Grand Theatre, Leeds.
Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia, conductor Steven Sloane
Acts 1 and 2

4.25 Shakespeare Masterclass 2
Fiona Shaw works with a small group of actors on excerpts from Macbeth and Much Ado about Nothing.

4.45 Act 3

5.45 Sunday Feature: All the World His Stage
Jonathan Bate examines Shakespeare's international impact with speakers from Moscow, Barbados, Berlin and New York. He explores how Shakespeare's plays have been interpreted across continents and generations and asks whether the advantages of the British Empire and the English language account for Shakespeare's standing in so many countries.

6.30 Private Passions
(Rptd from yesterday 12 noon)

7.30 Sunday Play: As You Like It
Shakespeare's forest of Arden liberates those banished from the repressive formality of the court to discover their true selves in the dark of the woodland.
With Katy Murphy, Janice Asquah and Tim Treloar

BBC Radio Shakespeare cassettes and CDs of As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts One and Two are available now

9.30 Choirworks
Paul Guinery introduces a performance of Purcell's The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. And guest Roger Savage reveals the extent to which the Bard's play was adapted to suit Restoration tastes.
Soloists, Schutz Choir of London, London Classical Players/Roger Norrington

11.45 Shakespeare Masterclass 3
Mike Alfred works with actor Antony Ryding on Bottom's awakening speech from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(See also Opera on 3 tomorrow 4pm)
(Programme of the Week: page 127)

12.00 Blue Skies
Georgina Ferry explores scientific developments in a cultural context.
4: Restoration and Reconstruction.

Contributors

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Subject William Shakespeare
Presenter (Shakespeare Masterclass 1):
Cicely Berry
[Actor]:
Susan Brown
[Actor]:
Paul Bhattacharjee
[Actor]:
Tom George
[Actor]:
Clare Cathcart
[Actor]:
Antony Ryding
Presenter (Shakespeare's London):
Iain Sinclair
[Actor]:
Emma Fielding
[Actor]:
Simon Russell-Beale
Soprano:
Lisa Milne
Baritone:
Christopher Maltman
Singers:
BBC Singers
Pianist:
Iain Burnside
Presenter (A Midsummer Night's Dream):
Humphrey Carpenter
Singers:
Opera North Chorus
Musicians:
English Northern Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Steven Sloane
Presenter (Shakespeare Masterclass 2):
Fiona Shaw
Presenter (All The World His Stage):
Jonathan Bate
[Actor]:
Katy Murphy
[Actor]:
Janice Asquah
[Actor]:
Tim Treloar
Composer (Sunday Play:
As You Like It): Harvey Brough
Director (Sunday Play:
As You Like It): Kate Rowland
Presenter (Choirworks):
Paul Guinery
Guest (Choirworks):
Roger Savage
Singers:
Schultz Choir of London
Musicians:
London Classical Players
Conductor:
Roger Norrington
Presenter (Shakespeare Masterclass 3):
Mike Alfred
Actor:
Antony Ryding
Presenter (Blue Skies):
Georgina Ferry
Producer (Blue Skies):
Deborah Cohen
Oberon:
Christopher Josey (countertenor)
Tytania:
Claron McFadden (soprano)
Helena:
Helen Williams (soprano)
Hermia:
Ann Taylor (mezzo)
Lysander:
Nicholas Sears (tenor)
Demetrius:
Mark Stone (baritone)
Theseus:
James Rutherford (baritone)
Hippolyta:
Ruth Peel (mezzo)
Bottom:
Jonathan Best (bass)
Puck:
Jan Knightley (speaker)
Quince:
Andrew Slater (bass-Baritone)
Flute:
Christopher Saunders (tenor)
Snug:
Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass)
Snout:
Peter Bodenham (tenor)
Rosalind:
Helena Bonham Carter
Celia:
Natasha Little
Touchstone:
James Fleet
Orlando:
David Morrissey
Oliver:
Gerard Murphy
Duke Frederick/Sir Oliver Martext:
Stephen Boxer
Charles:
Gavin Muir
Jaques de Boys/Second Lord:
Gavin Muir
Duke Senior:
John McEnery
Jaques:
Nicholas Le Prevost
Amiens/Hymen:
Mark Springer
Corin/Adam:
Trevor Peacock
Silvius/Le Beau:
Paul Hitton

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00 Elgar Cantata: Caractacus - Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Choir/Edode Waart

2.40 Purcell Dioclesian (excerpts)

2.50 Brade Newe Ausserlesne Liebliche Branden

3.40 Sutermeister Piano Sonatine

3.55 Pingoud Symphony No 2

4.20 Bloch Trumpet Concerto

4.35 Rachmaninov Barcarolle; Romance; Humoresque/Morceaux de Salon, Op 10)

4.50 Schubert Marche Militaire in D, D733 No 1

5.00 Matteis L'Amore

5.20 Tchaikovsky Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin)

5.35 Groneman Flute Sonata in G

5.55 Matteis Passagio Rotto; Fantasia

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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