Scenes from Shakespeare

WILLIAM WALTON (1902-1983)

As You Like It*

5:35

A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare

compiled by Christopher Palmer

1

I

Prelude -

2:52

2

ii

Moonlight

2:44

Henry V†

38:49

A Shakespeare Scenario

compiled by Christopher Palmer

3

I

Prologue

9:16

4

II

Passacaglia on the Death of Falstaff

2:46

5

IV

Interlude: 'Touch her soft lips and part'

2:14

6

V

I) Harfleur -

3:48

7

ii) The Night Watch

5:21

8

VI

St Crispin's Day -

3:23

9

Agincourt

11:54

Hamlet*

17:50

A Shakespeare Scenario

compiled by Christopher Palmer

10

II

Fanfare -

0:56

11

Soliloquy -

2:36

12

III

The Ghost

3:16

13

V

The Question -

2:17

14

'To be or not to be' -

3:13

15

VIII

Threnody

2:13

16

IX

Finale (Funeral March)

3:15

Richard III*

14:26

A Shakespeare Scenario

compiled by Christopher Palmer

17

II

Prelude

3:10

18

III

Monologue: 'Now is the winter of our discontent'

4:15

19

VII

The Princes in the Tower

2:31

20

X

Death of Richard and Finale

4:21

Christopher Plummer narrator*

Sir John Gielgud narrator†

Sir Neville Marriner

8-11 November 1989, 14-15 May 1990