The Sounds Of Shakespeare - Serenade To Music

Here will we sit and let the sounds of music, creep in our ears'.

The BBC Singers, conducted by James Morgan, give a live performance of Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music, the famously beautiful setting of part of The Merchant of Venice. From the historic Guild Chapel in Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of Radio 3's Sounds of Shakespeare weekend.

BBC Radio 3 is marking the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare with a season celebrating the four centuries of music and performance that his plays and sonnets have inspired. Over the anniversary weekend, from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th April, Radio 3 will broadcast live from a pop-up studio at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Other Place Theatre and other historic venues across Stratford-upon-Avon.

The BBC Singers give a live performance of Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music.

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