Richard III
music for the film
General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings
Composition:
1955
Film First Shown:
13 December 1955. Leicester Square Theatre, London.
Film Personnel:
Producer/Director: Sir Laurence Olivier
Screenplay: Adapted from the play by William Shakespeare
Cast: Sir Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir
John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Stanley Baker
Musicians: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Muir Mathieson conductor.
Studio: Shepperton Studios
Craggs Catalogue Number:
C63
2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, cor anglais, clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon – 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 2 or 3 percussion (side drum, tenor drum, small tabor, tambourine) – organ – strings
Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 584. Autograph full score, of the complete film music. 229 pages.
This music has only been published in the arrangements listed below.
Arrangements:
Three Pieces for Organ, extracted directly from the score.
Prelude: Richard III, for orchestra, arranged by Muir Mathieson, 1963. This version has twice been arranged for military band.
Richard III: A Shakespeare Suite, for orchestra, arranged by Muir Mathieson, 1963.
Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario, for speaker and orchestra, arranged by Christopher Palmer, 1989.
Three Pieces for Oboe and Piano,
arranged by Christopher Palmer.
Comprising: 'March', 'Elegy', 'Scherzetto'
Publication: Oxford University Press. Included in Willam Walton: An
Oboe Album, 1992, 019 3594102.
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Apart from the film, this music has only been recorded in the arrangements listed above.