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The music is said to display an astounding richness of imagination and inventive capacity, and is considered by some as one of Sibelius's greatest achievements. He represented individual characters through instrumentation choices: particularly admired was his use of harps and percussion to represent Prospero , said to capture the "resonant ...
The Tempest incidental music, Op. 1, is a set of movements for Shakespeare's play composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1861 and expanded in 1862. This was Sullivan's first major composition, and its success quickly brought him to the attention of the musical establishment in England.
Words for Music Perhaps: Speaking voice and chamber ensemble 8 June 1960: London. BBC broadcast, ensemble conducted by Michael Tippett Poem by W. B. Yeats [10] 1961 Songs for Achilles: Tenor and guitar 7 July 1961: Aldeburgh. Peter Pears (tenor), Julian Bream (guitar) Sung at Aldeburgh Festival 1961 [10] 1962 Songs for Ariel: Solo voice, piano ...
Ariel's song" is a verse passage in Scene ii of Act I of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. It consists of two stanzas to be delivered by the spirit Ariel , in the hearing of Ferdinand . In performance it is sometimes sung and sometimes spoken.
Three Shakespeare Songs is a piece of classical choral music written for an a cappella SATB choir. It was written in 1951 by the British classical composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The work comprises three short pieces which are settings of text from two plays by the English playwright William Shakespeare. It is published by Oxford University Press.
The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible – or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs – and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.
Pages in category "Music based on The Tempest" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 7empest; D.
Singing Together was a BBC Radio schools series which ran from 25 September 1939 to 29 March 2001, with repeats until 25 June 2004. [1] Its origins were in Community Singing which was considered necessary at the outbreak of the Second World War following the mass evacuation of children.