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