Strange capers / Anne Dudley (3:54) -- As you like it. I remember when I was in love (:54) -- A glooming peace / Django Bates (5:11) -- Romeo and Juliet. Where be these enemies? (:42) -- The winter's tale. When daffodils begin to peer (1:37) -- Sweet swan / Guy Woolfenden (6:21) -- Hamlet. My lord, I have news to tell you (:35) -- Poem unlimited / Jason Carr (4:14) -- Hamlet. There is a willow grows aslant a brook (1:15) -- The death of Ophelia / Stephen Warbeck (6:45) -- Lullaby exit bear / Huw Warren (6:18) -- Hamlet. Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day (:55) -- Ophelia's lament / Mark-Anthony Turnage (2:51) -- Hamlet. O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! (1:15) -- Henry IV: part one. A plague of all cowards (1:37) -- A plague of all cowards / Ilona Sekacz (6:29) -- Romeo and Juliet. If I profane with my unworthiest hand (1:28) -- The beginning of the partnership / Stephen Warbeck (1:56) -- The winter's tale. O, thus she stood (2:17) -- The winter's end / Shaun Davey (3:58) -- The merchant of Venice. The man that hath no music in himself (:25) -- Lear's trumpets / Dominic Muldowney (5:50)
Note
Music commissioned for a concert marking Shakespeare's birthday at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The compositions take their inspiration from Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The winter's tale, King Lear and As you like it, with readings interspersed.
Event (note)
Recorded March 8-9, 2000 at Radio Studio 2, BBC Pebble Hill, Birmingham.
Malcolm Storry, Harriet Walter, speakers ; Musicians of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ; Michael Tubbs, John Woolf, Stephen Warbeck, Guy Woolfenden, conductors.
Event
Recorded March 8-9, 2000 at Radio Studio 2, BBC Pebble Hill, Birmingham.