MENDELSSOHN, Wedding March from Incidental Music: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

NICOLAI, Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor

SHOSTAKOVICH, Concert Suite from Incidental Music: Hamlet, Op. 32a

SHEARING, Shakespeare Songs and Sonnets

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: ‘My Kingdom for a Horse’: Fanfare – Richard III, Henry V Overture, ‘Gloria tibi’: Henry IV

CHAUSSON, Incidental Music: The Tempest

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, In Windsor Forest (adapted from Sir John in Love)

James Ross Conducts.

Shakespeare’s plays have been an inspiration for many composers. In this concert “with a difference” the music is illustrated by readings from the relevant plays, given by members of the Haslemere Thespians.