disc 1. Romeo and Juliet, op. 64. Dance of the knights / Prokofiev (the Cleveland Orchestra ; Lorin Maazel, conductor) -- Romeo and Juliet. Love theme / Tchaikovsky (Wiener Philharmoniker ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor) -- Roméo et Juliette. Ah, je veux vivre / Gounod (Renée Fleming, soprano ; London Philharmonic Orchestra ; Charles Mackerras, conductor) -- Theme from Romeo & Juliet ; A time for us / arranged by Andre Rieu (Andre Rieu, violin) -- A midsummer night's dream, op. 61. Scherzo / Mendelssohn (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande ; Ernest Ansermet, conductor) -- The fairy queen. O let me weep, for ever weep / Purcell (English Chamber Orchestra ; Benjamin Britten, conductor) -- Falstaff. Falstaff! Olà! Sir John Falstaff! / Verdi (Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone ; Berliner Philharmoniker ; Claudio Abbado, conductor) -- Romeo & Juliet. Balcony scene (Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Prague ; Paul Bateman, conductor) -- Otello. Ave Maria, piena di grazia / Verdi (Renée Fleming, soprano ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Georg Solti, conductor) -- Let us garlands bring. Come away, come away, death / Finzi (Bryn Terfel, bass baritone ; Malcolm Martineau, piano) -- Macbeth. Coro di profughi scozzesi, "Patria oppressa" / Verdi (Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Georg Solti, conductor) -- Suite from Henry V. Touch her soft lips and part / Walton ; arranged by Muir Mathieson (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Litton, conductor) -- A midsummer night's dream, op. 61. Wedding march / Mendelssohn (Peter Hurford, organ) -- Béatrice et Bénédict. Vous soupirez, madame? ; Nuit paisible et sereine! / Berlioz (London Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor) -- Three Shakespeare songs / Vaughan Williams (the Choir of King's College, Cambridge ; Sir David Willcocks, conductor) -- Fear no more the heat of the sun, op. 18, no. 3 / Finzi (Amy Dickson, saxophone ; Aurora Orchestra ; Nicholas Collon, conductor). disc 2. Trilus & Cressida. The prologue / Paul Hardwick -- Twelfth night. Orsino discusses his love for Olivia / Derek Godfrey, Dorothy Tutin -- The taming of the shrew. Katherine's advice to women / Peggy Ashcroft -- Much ado about nothing. Benedict confesses his love / Christopher Plummer, Geraldine McEwan -- Hamlet. To be or not to be / Ian Bannen -- As you like it. All the world's a stage / Max Adrian -- Romeo and Juliet. Juliet impatiently awaits Romeo / Dorothy Tutin -- Othello. Othello tells how he won Desdemona's love / Sir John Gielgud -- As you like it. Epilogue / Vanessa Redgrave -- Richard III. King Richard gives way to despair / Richard Pasco -- Julius Caesar. Antony addresses the crowd after Caesar's assassination / Richard Johnson -- Macbeth. Macbeth hears of his wife's death / Tony Church, Paul Whitworth, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Pippa Guard, Richard Pasco -- Sonnet 18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / Richard Pasco -- Sonnet 73, That time of year thou may'st in me behold / Tony Church -- Sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Richard Johnson -- King Lear. Lear and his fool on the heath / Donald Sinden, Paul Whitworth -- Antony & Cleopatra. Antony dies in the arms of Cleopatra / Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Tony Church, Pippa Guard -- The tempest. Prospero renounces his magic powers / Donald Sinden, Barbara Leigh-Hunt.
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