Shakespeare Suites Nos. 1 & 2

Composer: HUMPERDINCK, Engelbert
  • Humperdinck’s Shakespeare Suite No. 1 and Shakespeare Suite No. 2 are two orchestral suites the composer arranged using his incidental music written for live productions of several of Shakespeare’s plays for Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin between 1905-08.
  • Suite No. 1 movements and excerpts:
    1. Introduction (The Tempest)
    2. Dance of the air and sea spirits (The Tempest)
    3. Ferdinand and Miranda (The Tempest)
    4. Love scene (Merchant of Venice)
    5. Dance of the satyrs (A Winter’s Tale)
  • Suite No. 2 movements and excerpts:
    1. Introduction (A Winter’s Tale)
    2. Serenade (As You Like It)
    3. Dance of the shepherds (A Winter’s Tale)
    4. Dance of the reapers (The Tempest)
    5. Procession of the shepherds (A Winter’s Tale)1

Sources

  1. Notes in accompanying booklet, Humperdinck: Shakespeare Suites Nos. 1 & 2 / Overture Die Heirat Wilder Willen / Humoreske performed by Bamberg Symphony conducted by Karl Anton Rickenbacher, Schwann 1197, 1994, compact disc.

Cut IDs

43480 43481