Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario

for orchestra and speaker (optional)

arranged by Christopher Palmer

General Information – Instrumentation – Publication – Recordings

General Information:

Arrangement:
Arranged by Christopher Palmer, from the music for the film Richard III, composed 1955.

First Performance:
Unknown

Duration:
About 40 minutes
About 44 minutes when including 'Monologue'

Movements:

     1.   Prelude
2.   Coronation
3.   Monologue [optional, published separately]
4.   The Wooing
 5.   The Prince of Wales
6.   Elegy
7.   The Princes in the Tower
8.   Nightmare
9.   Bosworth Field
     10.   Death of Richard and Finale

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C63d

Instrumentation:

Speaker solo (optional)  [in 'Monologue' only]

3 flutes (third doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (third doubling cor anglais), 3 clarinets (third doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon) – 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 4 percussion – 2 harps – piano (doubling harpsichord and celesta) – organ – strings

Publication:

Oxford University Press. Score and parts are available on hire.

The movement entitled 'Monologue' is published separately, by Oxford University Press. Score and parts are available on hire.

Recordings:

Speaker Orchestra Conductor Year Compact Disc Timing
Sir John Gielgud Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner 1989 Chandos CHAN 8841 43'54"

 

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