Sound of Cinema
The BBC Concert Orchestra plays some of the greatest Shakespeare film music live from King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon, the school where Shakespeare was a pupil.
The BBC Concert Orchestra celebrates the music of Shakespeare on film.
Classic scores from Olivier’s Henry V, Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books to Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing are given the full symphonic treatment under the baton of Shakespeare enthusiast and BBC CO Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart.
Presented by Matthew Sweet.
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Sound of Cinema - Romeo and Juliet
Duration: 07:44
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