Scenes from Shakespeare / William Walton.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Walton, William, 1902-1983, composer.

Contributor:

Marriner, Neville, conductor.

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, performer.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

7000 series

Standardized Title:

Motion picture music. Selections; arranged

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--Excerpts, Arranged.

Motion picture music.

Monologues with music (Orchestra).

Suites (Orchestra), Arranged.

Genre:

Motion picture music.

Excerpts.

Suites.

Monologues (Music)

Arrangements (Music)

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 minutes).

Place of Publication:

[Colchester, Essex, England] : Chandos, [1996]

Language Note:

Spoken in English.

System Details:

audio file

Contents:

As you like it : a poem for orchestra after Shakespeare. Prelude ; Moonlight (5:35)

Henry V : a Shakespeare scenario. Prologue ; Passacaglia on the death of Falstaff ; Interlude : "Touch her soft lips and part" ; Harfleur ; The night watch ; St. Crispin's Day ; Agincourt (38:49)

Hamlet : a Shakespeare scenario. Fanfare ; Soliloquy ; The ghost ; The question ; "To be or not to be" ; Threnody ; Finale : funeral march (17:50)

Richard III : a Shakespeare scenario. Prelude ; Monologue : "Now is the winter of our discontent" ; The princes in the Tower ; Death of Richard and finale (14:26).

Participant:

Sir John Gielgud (1st and 3rd-4th works), Christopher Plummer (2nd work), narrators; the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor.

Notes:

Streaming audio files.

Title from resource description page (viewed March 21, 2016).

Recorded Nov. 8-11, 1989 (1st and 3rd-4th works) and May 14-15, 1990 (2nd work), St. Jude's Church, London. Performed St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Other Format:

Original cat. no.: CHAN 7041

Original version:

OCLC:

1052765046

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.