With Penny Gore. Humperdinck: Shakespeare Suite No 1. Chausson: The Tempest (excerpts). Zemlinsky: Cymbeline incidental music. Sullivan: The Tempest incidental music (excerpts). Show more
With Penny Gore. Balakirev: King Lear Overture. Tchaikovsky: Hamlet (excpts). Shostakovich: Hamlet, Op 32 (excpt). Verdi: Otello (excerpts). Finzi: Love's Labours Lost. Show more
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is joined by actors in a performance of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing with music by Eric Korngold. Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Music for Shakespeare plays: Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet (excerpt). Berlioz: Romeo et Juliet. German: Music for Henry VIII. Show more
A rare chance to hear Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mendelssohn's complete incidental music, in a performance given at London's Middle Temple Hall. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Kurt Weill's Broadway musical Street Scene, which tells a gritty story of life, love, birth and death in a squalid 1940s Manhattan tenement. Show more
1 hour, 30 minutes
Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Philharmonic in Beethoven's Egmont and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's King Kristian II. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents more theatre music at the ballet. Dukas: La Peri. Debussy: Jeux. Poulenc: Les biches. Prokofiev: Suite (Romeo and Juliet). Stravinsky: Le baiser de la fee. Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Music inspired by theatre. Vaughan Williams: Wasps Overture. Ildebrando Pizzetti: La Nave. Honegger: Phaedre (incidental music). Stravinsky: Oedipus rex. Brian: A Turandot Suite. Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Louise Fryer presents Gluck's opera based on Greek myth, Iphigenie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham. Plus Copland's Billy the Kid and Weber's music for Turandot. Show more
1 hour, 30 minutes
Presented by Louise Fryer. Schmitt: Anthony and Cleopatra Suite No 1. Mozart: Thamos, King of Egypt, K345. Einem: Four Episodes from Turandot, Op 1a. Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Presented by Louise Fryer. Stravinsky: Apollo. Havergal Brian: Three Pieces (Turandot). Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, Op 43. Busoni: Turandot Suite, Op 41. Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Penny Gore presents music used for theatrical purposes. Debussy: Le martyre de St Sebastien. Copland: Quiet City. Zeisl: Requiem Ebraico. Leroy Anderson: Goldilocks (excerpts). Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Penny Gore presents a series featuring theatre music. With a performance of Massenet's opera Herodiade, given at the Flanders Opera in Ghent. Show more
1 hour, 30 minutes
Penny Gore presents a series featuring theatre music. Malipiero: San Francesco d'Assisi. Britten: Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes). Arnell: The Great Detective. Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Penny Gore presents music for the Theatre. Schubert: Rosamunde. Britten: The Ascent of F6. Foulds: Henry VIII Suite. Vaughan Williams: Job: A Masque for Dancing. Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Presented by Penny Gore. Elgar: Incidental music (The Starlight Express). Sibelius: Incidental music (Pelleas et Melisande). Georges Jacobi: Suite from the ballet Oriella. Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Penny Gore presents Paul Dukas's opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, starring Katarina Karneus and Nicolas Cavallier. Plus dance music from Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage. Show more
1 hour, 30 minutes
Penny Gore presents music associated with the theatre. Walton: The Wise Virgins - complete ballet music (after Bach). Faure: Pelleas and Melisande. Stravinsky: The Firebird (1919). Show more
2 hours, 30 minutes
Penny Gore presents music associated with the theatre. Elgar: Grania and Diarmid. Nielsen: Aladdin Suite. Sibelius: The Tempest - Incidental music. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1. Show more