Favourite music inspired by Shakespeare? (preludes, tone poems, etc.)

[Florestan]

The opera "Love's Labour's Lost" by Adrian Leverkühn.

Very nice, Larry, very nice indeed!

Any favourite recording? 

[DavidW]

Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet from their Making Movies album.

Here is a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbv8d6tBFFI

That's one of my favorite songs of theirs.  That's cool that you like it, because all my friends and family hate that song, I thought I was like the only one that liked it.

[Cato]

Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, if I'm staying with one "top" pick.

Amen!

A correction: somebody mentioned Bernard Herrmann as the composer of a score for Julius Caesar.

If that is the movie from the early 1950's with Marlon Brando as Antony (in his svelte days), then the composer should be epic specialist  Miklos Rozsa.

Herrmann might have conducted the music on a record in the 70's.

There is another Julius Caesar movie from the 1970's with John Gielgud and Charlton Heston.  It bombed, but I am not sure who composed the score.

[karlhenning]

Whether or not it may be my favorite, all my concentration right now is on The Mousetrap  0:)

[Larry Rinkel]

Very nice, Larry, very nice indeed!

Any favourite recording? 

Unfortunately none exists. I have heard it only in a live performance directed by Wendell Kretschmar, one of the only three performances on record (excuse the pun).

[Cato]

Unfortunately none exists. I have heard it only in a live performance directed by Wendell Kretschmar, one of the only three performances on record (excuse the pun).

Dude!  Kretschmar is the Mann!   

[The new erato]

Frank Martin wrote an opera (I think) called The Storm of which a suite is available. Nordheim wrote a ballet as well by the same name, and of course you have the Beethoven Tempest sonata (which I think have been overlooked in this thread so far).

[Don]

That's one of my favorite songs of theirs.  That's cool that you like it, because all my friends and family hate that song, I thought I was like the only one that liked it.

It's one of my favorites also.  Dire Straits was one great band.

[karlhenning]

Calling Elvis, 's anybody home?

[The new erato]

Definitely one of their best, and one of my favorite DS songs!

Why doesn't anybody quote me?   

[Cato]

It's one of my favorites also.  Dire Straits was one great band.

That's a big 10-4 good buddy!

Just Do the Walk Of Life    0:)

[not edward]

Frank Martin wrote an opera (I think) called The Storm of which a suite is available.

I do wish that someone would record the full Der Sturm. The suite is very fine music, though not notably operatic in my opinion.

[karlhenning]

Is that based on Shakespeare, and not Ostrovsky (or some other source for the Ostrovsky)?

(Tchaikovsky, I think, wrote music after both these literary sources, e.g.)

[Lady Chatterley]

From The Tempest,Music by Dr Arne (or was it the Mrs') "Where the Bee Sucks,There Lurk I..
I've taught it to my 4 year old Grandaughter,delightful!

[Florestan]

Unfortunately none exists. I have heard it only in a live performance directed by Wendell Kretschmar, one of the only three performances on record (excuse the pun).

Gosh, you're even older than I thought!

(Nice again!)

[Larry Rinkel]

Gosh, you're even older than I thought!

(Nice again!)

But I am young at heart, so there.

[Florestan]

But I am young at heart

And at brain, no doubt!