Rufus Wainwright's 'Five Shakespeare Sonnets'

The singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright performs the UK premiere of his settings of five of Shakespeare's sonnets with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a Shakespeare-inspired evening. The evening features readings of the sonnets by actress Siân Phillips, music from Prokofiev's ballet 'Romeo and Juliet', the 'Much Ado About Nothing Suite' by the great Hollywood composer Erich Korngold, and it all gets underway with John Adams's rollicking 'Lollapalooza'. Rory MacDonald conducts.