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Shakespeare Day

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show on Shakespeare Day with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 8 Nov 2023 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight' (1st mvt, Adagio sostenuto)

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Beethoven: Moonlight Sonatas: Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • John Wilson

    Take O Take Those Lips Away

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Shakespeare Songs.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis and Chloe (extract)

    Performer: Adam Walker. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo茅 (Complete Ballet).
    • Chandos.
    • 112.

  • Henry Purcell

    Timon of Athens: Curtain Tune

    Performer: Arcangelo. Performer: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Enchanted Forest.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 007.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • Bach, JS : Orchestral Suites Nos 1 - 4.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 2.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Fanfare (Hamlet)

    Conductor: Geoffrey Simon. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Rare Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 202.

  • John Dankworth

    The Compleat Works

    Lyricist: John Dankworth. Singer: Cleo Laine.
    • Wordsongs.
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 15.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in G minor, Op 15 No 3

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Mark Padmore. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (extracts)

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Gerd Albrecht.
    • Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Orpheus with his lute

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • HYPERION.

  • Robert Johnson

    Hark, Hark! The Lark (For Shakespeare's "Cymbeline")

    Performer: Anthony Rooley. Singer: Emma Kirkby.
    • The Sound of Shakespeare.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 68.

  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen, D. 889: Horch, horch! die Lerch

    Lyricist: Shakespeare.
    • Schubert: 21 Lieder.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.

  • Mario Castelnuovo鈥怲edesco

    Sea Murmurs

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Maria Todtenhaupt. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Escape To Paradise - The Hollywood Album.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Nino Rota

    Romeo and Juliet - Love Theme

    Conductor: Tolga Ka艧if.
    • Movie Classics.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in F, Op 18, No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Beethoven: Inventions 1.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.

  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Johnny Hodges

    The Stars Crossed Lovers

    • Such Sweet Thunder (Dedicated to the Shakespearean Festival, Stratford, Ontario).
    • Efor, S.L.
    • 9.

  • Pelham Humfrey

    Where the bee sucks

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Robin Blaze.
    • HYPERION.

  • Edward Elgar

    Falstaff, Op. 68: I. Falstaff and Prince Henry

    Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic.
    • Elgar: Falstaff, Orchestral Songs & \"Grania and Diarmid\".
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    La danse de Puck (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Debussy: Preludes Books I & II: Zoltan Kocsis.
    • Philips.
    • 11.

  • Benjamin Britten

    I know a bank (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

    Singer: James Bowman. Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    One Charming Night

    Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: Fran莽ois Lazarevitch.
    • Purcell: Songs & Dances.
    • ALPHA.

  • William Walton

    Henry V - Scenes from the film

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.
    • Walton: Henry V - Scenes from the film, and other film music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 25.

  • Anne Dudley

    Strange Capers

    Ensemble: Musicians of Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Conductor: Michael Tubbs.
    • Chandos.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The rain it raineth every day, Op 65 No 3

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Songs to Shakespeare.
    • Hyperion.

  • John Dankworth

    Shall I compare thee to a summer鈥檚 day 鈥� Sonnet 18

    Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Singer: Cleo Laine. Performer: John Dankworth.
    • VERVE.

  • Stephen Warbeck

    Shakespeare in Love: Love & the Rehearsal

    Performer: Gavyn Wright. Conductor: Nick Ingman. Orchestra: Orchestra.
    • Shakespeare in Love - Music from the Miramax Motion Picture.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Hector Berlioz

    B茅atrice et B茅n茅dict (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: OVertures: Staatskapelle Dresden/Davis.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Trevor Jones

    Come live with me

    Singer: Stacey Kent. Ensemble: Vile Bodies Big Band.
    • LONDON.

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