Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario / As you Like it: A Poem for Orchestra

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Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario / As you Like it: A Poem for Orchestra
Sir John Gielgud (narrator) Catherine Bott (soprano) / Academy St Martins / Neville Marriner

[ Chandos Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 1 September 2007

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"Marriner and the Academy draw out all the romantic warmth of both scores, and the sound is richly atmospheric to match, with a sharper focus and a keener sense of presence than on some recordings from this source. The Hamlet music may not match Henry V in sustained invention, but I certainly look forward to more issues in Chandos's splendid Walton series devoted to the results of Christopher Palmer's researches."
(Gramophone)

Tracks:

Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario arranged Palmer 39:10
1 I Prelude [03:09]
2 II Fanfare and [00:57]
3 Soliloquy [02:35]
4 III The Ghost [03:15]
5 IV Hamlet and Ophelia [07:52]
6 V The Question [02:20]
7 'To be or not to be' [03:08]
VI The Mousetrap
8 The Players [00:46]
9 Entry of the Court [00:49]
10 The Play [03:57]
11 VII Ophelia's Death [02:42]
12 VIII Retribution and [01:59]
13 Threnody [02:11]
14 IX Finale (Funeral March) [03:14]

As you Like it: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare arranged Palmer 12:30
15 i Prelude [02:52]
16 ii Moonlight [02:39]
17 iii Under the Greenwood Tree [01:56]
18 iv The Fountain [03:12]
19 v Wedding Procession [01:51]