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Sounds of Shakespeare

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. With Bruce O'Neill talking about about singing at the RSC, plus the Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Choir and a new work by Dobrinka Tabakova.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch continues Radio 3's Shakespeare celebrations with a live broadcast from The Other Place theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Special guests, the Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Choir, perform Shakespeare settings by local composers. Sara also talks to Bruce O'Neill, Head of Music at the Royal Shakespeare Company, about singing at the RSC, plus she introduces a major new Shakespeare cantata by Dobrinka Tabakova specially recorded earlier this week at Trinity Church in Stratford.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Bob Chilcott

    The Isle is Full of Noises for chorus

    Conductor: Christopher Finzi. Performer: Wellensian Consort.
    • NAXOS.
    • 857-3158.
  • SAM KENYON

    Lullaby 'You Spotted Snakes' (Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC 2016)

    Performer: Ayesha Dharker. Performer: Children from Alveston C of E Primary School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Performer: Children from Alveston C of E Primary School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Performer: Musicians of the RSC. Performer: Musicians of the RSC.
    • RSC.
    • RSCE012.
  • Gary Carpenter

    Spring ("When daisies pied...", Love's Labour's Lost)

    Composer: Gary Carpenter. Conductor: Christopher Bell. Conductor: Christopher Bell. Performer: Philip Moore. Performer: Philip Moore. Performer: NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR OF SCOTLAND - GIRLS CHOIR.
    • Signum.
    • SIGCD440.
  • James Walker

    Sigh no more, ladies (Much Ado about Nothing)

    Performer: Stephen Dodsworth. Performer: Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Choir.
  • Paul Englishby

    Lacrimosa (incidental music from the RSC's 2013 Henry II)

    Performer: Anna Bolton. Performer: Bruce O鈥橬eil. Performer: Charlotte Ashley. Performer: Chris Seddon. Performer: Chris Storr. Performer: Helena Raeburn. Performer: James Stretton.
    • RSC.
    • RSCE003.
  • SAM KENYON

    Lullaby 'You Spotted Snakes' (Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC 2016)

    Performer: Ayesha Dharker. Performer: Children from Alveston C of E Primary School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Performer: Musicians of the RSC.
    • RSC.
    • RSCE012.
  • Nigel Hess

    The Nine Worthies (Love's Labour's Lost, RSC 2014

    Performer: Bruce O鈥橬eil. Performer: Chris Nayak. Performer: David Horovitch. Performer: Harry Waller. Performer: John Hodgkinson. Performer: Nick Haverson. Performer: Oliver Lynes. Performer: Peter Basham. Performer: Peter McGovern. Performer: Thomas Wheatley & Company.
    • RSC.
    • RSCE007.
  • John Cook

    Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Cymbeline)

    Performer: Stephen Dodsworth. Performer: Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Choir.
  • James Walker

    Tell me where is fancy bred (Merchant of Venice)

    Performer: Stephen Dodsworth. Performer: Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Choir.
  • Stephen Dodsworth

    The Rapture

    Performer: Stephen Dodsworth. Performer: Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Choir.
  • Stephen Dodsworth

    The Sun has Burst the Sky (Merchant of Venice)

    Performer: Stephen Dodsworth. Performer: Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Choir.
  • Gary Carpenter

    Spring ("When daisies pied...", Love's Labour's Lost)

    Conductor: Christopher Bell. Performer: Philip Moore. Performer: NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR OF SCOTLAND - GIRLS CHOIR.
    • Signum.
    • SIGCD440.
  • Nils Lindberg

    Shall I Compare Thee

    Conductor: Grete Pedersen. Performer: The Norwegian Soloists Choir.
    • Simax.
    • PSC1298.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Beatrice et Benedict - opera in 2 acts Op.27 [libretto after Shakespeare]

    Conductor: Bernard T茅tu. Performer: Andre Jung. Performer: Gerard Reyne. Performer: Jacques Renard. Performer: Jean-Philippe Courtis. Performer: Jean-luc Rimey-meille. Performer: Michel Haffner. Performer: Noel Lee. Performer: Pierre Dutot.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMA1951293.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Immortal Shakespeare - Cantata for choir and orchestra

    Performer: Orchestra of the Swan. Performer: Tasmin Waley-Cohen. Choir: Orchestra of the Swan Chamber Choir. Conductor: David Curtis.

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