Shakespeariana

A series about Shakespeare and music:

  1. Sweet lovers love the spring – As you like it V:3
  2. Overture to Shakespeare – Friedrich Kuhlau, op. 74
  3. The wind and the rain – Twelfth Night, last scene
  4. Macbeth and the witches – Bedřich Smetana, Macbeth (piano)
  5. In Windsor – Otto Nicolai, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Overture
  6. The death of Ophelia – Hector Berlioz, op. 18 no. 2
  7. Grimaces within a Dream – Érik Satie, Cinq Grimaces pour «Un Songe d’une nuit d’été»
  8. Hamlet according to Abbé Vogler
  9. A Shakespearean Suite – Josef Bohuslav Foerster, op. 76
  10. Hamlet and Ophelia – Guillaume Lekeu, Étude symphonique no. 2
  11. Shylock – Gabriel Fauré, op. 57
  12. Many sighs about nothing – Thomas Arne, Sigh no more, ladies
  13. Something rich and strange – The Tempest I:2 and V:1
  14. Take those lips away – Measure for Measure IV:1 (various composers)
  15. Sing all a green willow – I – Rossini, «Assisa a pie’ d’un salice» (Otello, act III)
  16. Sing all a green willow – II – Verdi, «Piangea cantando» (Otello, act IV)
  17. Sing all a green willow – Shakespeare’s cut – Othello IV:3
  18. Prospero’s incantations – Egon Wellesz, op. 53
  19. Falstaff in Love – Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Greensleeves
  20. Symphonic Hamlet – Franz Liszt, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Heinz Tiessen
  21. …und Julia – Heinrich Sutermeister, Suite from the opera Romeo und Julia
  22. Musick to heare – Igor Stravinsky, Three Songs from William Shakespeare
  23. Romeo & Juliet & Romeo & Juliet – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1869 and 1880
  24. At heaven’s gate – Cymbeline II:3
  25. Tu-whit – Thomas Arne, When icicles hang by the wall
  26. Calleno custure me – Henry the Fifth IV:4
  27. Romeo and Juliet, a piano suite – Sergei Prokofiev, op. 75
  28. Ophelia sings – Hamlet IV:5
  29. Ivresse de jeunesse – Charles Gounod, «Je veux vivre» (Roméo et Juliette, act I)
  30. When my love swears – Oscar van Hemel, Four Shakespeare sonnets
  31. A Fool’s Song – King Lear I:4
  32. MacBallet – Giuseppe Verdi, Ballet music from Macbeth
  33. Her silver sound – Richard Edwardes (?), Where griping grief
  34. Mendelssohn’s Dream – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ein Sommernachtstraum
  35. Beauty and kindness – Franz Schubert, An Silvia
  36. Like a worm in the bud – Franz Josef Haydn, She never told her love
  37. Symphonie dramatique – Hector Berlioz, op. 17
  38. Lady Greensleeves & Mistress Ford – Greensleeves quotes in The Merry Wives of Windsor