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| Afternoon Performance | ...The BBC SSO takes centre stage today with a programme including Strauss's light-hearted DON QUIXOTE. Subtitled "fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character for large orchestra", the work is a mixture of tone poem, concerto and theme and variations.... |
| Ball Over Broadway | ...Michael Ball catches up with the acclaimed Broadway revival of Man Of La Mancha, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell, and asks how well this musical adaptation of DON QUIXOTE has lasted.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...R Strauss: DON QUIXOTE.... |
| Bbc Singers Touring Mexico | ...Gerhard: Dances from DON QUIXOTE... |
| Carver | ...Next in series: DON QUIXOTE... |
| Cd Masters Summary | ...Strauss: DON QUIXOTE, Op 35... |
| Dan Quixote | ...... |
| Discovering Music | ...Charles Hazlewood is joined by the BBC Philharmonic and cellist Peter Dixon to explore Richard Strauss's famous tone poem DON QUIXOTE, based on the Cervantes epic novel. Charles also looks at the relationship between DON QUIXOTE and another of Strauss's great tone poems, Ein Heldenleben.... |
| Don Quixote [drama] | |
| Don Quixote [reading] | |
| Don Quixote, By Thomas D'urfey | |
| Don Quixote | |
| Don, The | ...Inspired by Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE, The Don is a gentle dreamer, disheveled and battered by too many years spent in life's shadows. Through the function suites, pubs and wedding dos of northern England, The Don, played by the incomparable Bill Nighy, staggers forever in pursuit of his imaginary lover Dulcie - his muse, his ideal 'lady', with his neighbour Sancho in tow.... |
| Museum Of Curiosity, The | Professor John Lloyd and Curators Bill Bailey (series 1) and Sean Lock (series 2) host a panel show in which three distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary museum. Curios can range from a subatomic particle to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. ...Tim FitzHigham, Simon Singh and Gavin Pretor-Pinney donate DON QUIXOTE, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely rare cloud.... |
| On The Ropes | ...John Humphrys in conversation with successful people who have weathered storms in their careers. 3: Terry Gilliam's career as a film director has been a wild mixture of hits and misses, and a new 32-million-pound project to film `DON QUIXOTE' has ground to a halt. What went wrong?... |
| Oneclick/film | ...One hour in the company of Terry Gilliam, former Monty Python-er and director of films such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fisher King, Brazil and new film The Brothers Grimm. Terry shares some unique insights into the films he's made and unravels many of the movie myths that surround him concerning un-made fantastical epics (such as DON QUIXOTE) and struggles with Hollywood producers, studio bosses and budgets!.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Oliver Knussen conducts music by some of his great heroes and friends. His teacher Gunther Schuller celebrates his 80th birthday this year; 2005 is the centenary of Michael Tippett's birth; and Elliott Carter is still composing at the age of 96. Carter's recent witty little concert-opener Micomicon was inspired by an episode from Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE - which in turn inspired Richard Strauss back in 1897.... |
| Proms Plus | ...Proms Literary Festival: Ian Mcmillan On DON QUIXOTE... |
| Richard Strauss (1864-1949) | ...DON QUIXOTE : Symphonieochester des Bayerischen Rundfunks : Lorin Maazel (conductor).... |
| Romantic Road, The | ...Today, he explores Spain and `DON QUIXOTE' by Cervantes, considered by many to be the first modern novel. First published in 1605, it appeared in English in 1612, then in French and Italian, influencing Sterne, Fielding and Defoe. Contributors include Camilo Jose Cela, Eduardo Mendoza, Javier Marias, Carmen Martin Gaite, Rosa Regas and Antonio Munoz Molina.... |
| Sound Stories | ...With Donald Macleod. Possibly the most famous work of literature to emerge from Spain is `The Ingenious Hidalgo DON QUIXOTE de la Mancha' by Miguel de Cervantes. The episodes of the Knight of the Doleful Countenance - tilting at windmills, attacking a procession of monks and his love for the unattainable Dulcinea - have acquired almost mythic status and inspired music from Purcell to Ravel.... |
| Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone [6 Music] | ...The Freak Zone presents a Bookworm special taking a look at albums inspired by literature. Expect musical interpretations of Dylan Thomas, The Bible, DON QUIXOTE and many many more.... |
| Tilting At Windmills | ...To mark the 450th anniversary of the birth of Miguel de Cervantes, an exploration of why `DON QUIXOTE', the book said to mark the beginnings of the novel, also mapped out the genre's possibilites and foresaw its possible ends. The distinguished Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes reflects on his lifelong obsession with the book; celebrated Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa explains its particular significance for Latin American fiction; and American writer Robert Coover explores its inspiration for artists and all impossible dreamers. Introduced by Mike Gonzales.... |