BBC Proms 2016, Prom 44 - Shakespeare: Stage and Screen

BBC Proms 2016, Prom 44 - Shakespeare: Stage and Screen

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart celebrate music from stage and screen inspired by Shakespeare's plays, including Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, based on Romeo and Juliet, and selections from Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate and Richard Rodgers's The Boys from Syracuse.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Walton arr Muir Mathieson: Prelude to Richard III
Finzi: Suite from Love's Labour's Lost
Sullivan: Overture to Act IV of The Tempest, Op 1
Walton compiled Christopher Palmer: As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare
Joby Talbot: "Springtime Dance" from The Winter's Tale
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

The Bard on Broadway
Porter: Kiss Me, Kate - Another Openin', Another Show; Always True to You; Where is the Life that Late I Led?; So In Love

Rodgers/Hart: The Boys from Syracuse - Dear Old Syracuse; You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea; Falling in Love with Love; Sing for your Supper; This Can't Be Love

Porter: "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (Kiss Me, Kate)

Hannah Waddingham, Anna-Jane Casey, Sarah Eyden, Graham Bickley (singers)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart

This transatlantic Prom presents a range of Shakespeare's characters as reflected on stage and screen - with an all-British first half and a second half devoted to American musicals, conducted by the US-born Keith Lockhart.

Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting

Michael Pennington is a leading Shakespeare actor who co-founded the English Shakespeare Company with director Michael Bogdanov and has performed at theatres across the world. He is the author of several books about Shakespeare's plays - the most recent of which is King Lear in Brooklyn. He also performs a solo Shakespeare show Sweet William. He is interviewed by Dr Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge and one of the BBC and AHRC's New Generation Thinkers. Part of a series of discussions in which leading figures explore the way Shakespeare has depicted their profession in his plays.