Tchaikovsky - Hamlet Incidental Music. RNO & Pletnev. Concert version

December 3, 2009, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Russian National Orchestra and Mikhail Pletnev. , Hamlet - Incidental Music for Shakespeare’s tragedy, Op. 67a (1891). 1. Overture 2. Act I Scene 4: Fanfare: A Flourish of Trumpets; 2a. Act I Scene 5: Melodrame: The Ghost tells Hamlet of his father’s murder 3. Act II: Entr’acte: Prelude to Scene 1 and first appearance in the play of Ophelia 4. Act I Scene 1: Melodrame: First appearance of Ghost 5. Act III: Entr’acte: Prelude to Scene 1 which features Hamlet’s soliloquy 6. Act III Scene 2: Melodrame: The Players enact the Scene of the Poisoning 7. Act IV: Entr’acte: Prelude to Scene 1 - A Room in the Castle 8. Act V: Entr’acte: Prelude to Scene 1 - A Churchyard (Marche) 9. Act V Scene 2: Fanfare: Trumpets sound 10. Act V Scene 2: Marche finale Lucien Guitry again asked Tchaikovsky to write incidental music for Hamlet. This time, it was for a benefit produ