Shakespeare and the song-motif
Lecture held at the William Walton Foundation, 9 September 1991
1. Graham Johnson introduces Eric Sams as Shakespeare-scholar
2. Beethoven and Shakespeare
3. Hamlet, the music of ideas, Mendelssohn
4. Schubert, Schumann
5. Warlock
6. Walton, Film-music
Questions, Discussion
7. "Ornitology" in the Lied, cuckoos
8. Opera, Sonnets
9. Conclusions