As You Like It
music for the film
General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings
Composition:
1936
Film First Shown:
3 September 1936. Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, London.
Film Personnel:
Producer/Director: Paul Czinner
Screenplay: From the play by William Shakespeare
Cast: Sir Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Felix Aylmer, John Laurie
Musicians: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conductor
Studio: Elstree Studios
Craggs Catalogue Number:
C31
Mixed chorus (SATB)
2 flutes (second doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon – 4 horns, 2 trumpets – percussion (glockenspiel, marimba, tubular bells, large cymbal, small cymbals, tabors, suspended cymbals, gong, jingles, side drum, triangle, church bells) – piano – strings
Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 608. Autograph full score, partly in a copyist's hand. 113 pages.
This music has only been published in the arrangements listed below.
Under the Greenwood Tree, published separately for voice (or unison voices) and piano, 1937. This song was not included in the film.
Suite for Orchestra, with optional mixed chorus, arranged by Carl Davis, 1987.
A Poem for Orchestra, with soprano solo, arranged by Christopher Palmer, 1989. This version has been arranged for chamber orchestra.
Apart from the film, this music has only been recorded in the arrangements listed above.