Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus' - BBC R3

BBC R3 - Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus'

Music by Mozart & Kevin Leeman

NT Stage Producer - Peter Hall

BBC Radio Producer - David Spencer

Broadcast January 23, 1983

Thanks to Donleavy for improved sound quality

Peter Shaffer's magnificant play. Its plot enlarges on Alexander Pushkin's work 'Mozart and Salieri' itself based on rumours recorded in Beethoven's conversation books & current in Vienna at Salieri's death. But this was just the vehicle. Shaffer's great achievement was to conjure up Vienna & Mozart, and to make Mozart's art seem fresh minted.

Coded from tape at 128/44.1

124 MB

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 This is the National Theatre's production.

 The Criterion Theatre's production used a slightly different version of the text.

In 1983, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a full adaptation of the play directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring the original cast of his National Theatre production. The cast included:

    Antonio Salieri -- Paul Scofield

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Simon Callow

    Constanze Mozart -- Felicity Kendal

    Joseph II -- John Normington

    Gottfried van Swieten -- Nicholas Selby

    Count Franz Orsini Rosenberg -- Willoughby Goddard

    Johann Killian Von Strack -- Nicky Henson

    Venticelli -- Donald Gee, Dermot Crowley

    Citizens of Vienna -- Nigel Bellairs, Susan Gilmore, Peggy Marshall, Robin Meredith, Anne Sedgwick,    William Sleigh, Glenn Williams

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