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Shakespeare at the Movies

Duration:
1 hour, 45 minutes
First broadcast:
Friday 24 April 2009

As part of the Radio 2 at the Movies season - this week's "Friday Night is Music Night" features music used in the films of the great Bard 's works - "Shakespeare at the Movies". Ken Bruce presents the show live from London's Mermaid Theatre close by the Thames and a stone's throw from Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre. The BBC Concert Orchestra is conducted by Richard Balcombe and their performance includes extracts from WIlliam Walton's music from "Henry V "and "Richard III"; Stephen Warbeck's score for the award winning "Shakespeare in Love"; Nino Rota's love theme from "Romeo and Juliet" ; Eric Rodgers music to "Carry on Cleo" and Otto Nicolai's "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Tonight's Friday Night singers Shona Lindsay; Tim Rogers and Jimmy Johnson invite you to "Brush Up Your Shakepeare" with a selection of songs from "Kiss Me Kate"(Cole Porter); "West Side Story" (Leonard Bernstein) and Rodgers and Hart's "The Boys from Syracuse" - based on "The Comedy of Errors".

  • Shakespeare at the Movies - 24th April 2009

    All the music in tonight's Friday Night is Music Night comes from films associated with William Shakespeare.

    PRESENTER - KEN BRUCE

    BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
    CONDUCTOR: RICHARD BALCOMBE

    GUESTS: SHONA LINDSAY, JIMMY JOHNSTON, TIM ROGERS & RODERICK ELMS (PIANO)

  • Music Played

    ORCHESTRA
    SIG TUNE (Charles Williams)

    JIMMY JOHNSTON, TIM ROGERS & ORCHESTRA
    BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE (Cole Porter)

    ORCHESTRA
    OVERTURE THE GLOBE PLAYHOUSE from Henry V (Walton)

    SHONA LINDSAY, TIM ROGERS & ORCHESTRA
    TONIGHT from West Side Story (Bernstein)

    JIMMY JOHNSTON & ORCHESTRA
    SOMETHING’S COMING from West Side Story (Bernstein)

    TIM ROGERS & ORCHESTRA
    MARIA from West Side Story (Bernstein)

    ORCHESTRA
    LOVE THEME from ROMEO AND JULIET (Nino Rota)

    ORCHESTRA
    WEDDING MARCH from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Mendelssohn)

    ORCHESTRA
    OVERTURE from MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Nicolai)

    INTERVAL

    ORCHESTRA
    PRELUDE - RICHARD III(Walton)

    JIMMY JOHNSTON & ORCHESTRA
    GREAT BALLS OF FIRE from Return to the Forbidden Planet (Otis Blackwell/Jack Hammer)

    ORCHESTRA
    CARRY ON CLEO(Rodgers)

    SHONA LINDSAY, TIM ROGERS & ORCHESTRA
    FALLING IN LOVE WITH LOVE from Boys from Syracuse(Rodgers/Hart)

    JIMMY JOHNSTON & ORCHESTRA
    DEAR OLD SYRACUSE from Boys from Syracuse (Rodgers/Hart)

    SHONA LINDSAY & ORCHESTRA
    SING FOR YOUR SUPPER from Boys from Syracuse (Rogers/Hart)

    TIM ROGERS & ORCHESTRA
    THIS CAN’T BE LOVE from Boys from Syracuse (Rodgers/Hart)

    ORCHESTRA
    THE BEGINNING OF THE PARTNERSHIP from Shakespeare in Love (Stephen Warbeck)

    SHONA LINDSAY, JIMMY JOHNSTON, TIM ROGERS & ORCHESTRA
    KISS ME KATE SELECTION (Cole Porter)

    ORCHESTRA
    SIG TUNE (Williams)

    THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

  • Interval Music

    Music of 3 Great British composers - Sir William Walton, Ralph Vaghan Williams and Sir Edward Elgar.

    Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1(Elgar). The title Pomp & Circumstance is taken line in Shakespeare's Othello.

    Once More Unto the Breach and Battle of Agincourt (Walton) from Sir Laurence Oliver's 1944 film of Henry V.

    Fantasia on Greensleeves (Vaughan Williams) from the opera Sir John In Love based on the play The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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