Скачать или смотреть Gerald Finzi - Three Soliloquies from "Love's Labours Lost". Marie Spartali Stillman - Paintings.

In 1946 Finzi was commissioned to write the incidental music for a BBC broadcast of Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost", from which he later extracted the "Three Soliloquies" for concert performance, followed by an extended suite of ten self-contained movements. The "Three Soliloquies" are played in this recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.
The premise of "Love's Labours Lost" is that Ferdinand, the King of Navarre, and his companions, the Lords Longaville and Dumaine, along with a slightly reluctant Lord Berowne, take an oath to eschew the company of women for three years and to devote themselves to study and fasting. Subsequently the Princess of France and her Ladies pay a visit to the court, whereupon the King falls in love with her as do the Lords with the Ladies, causing them all to break their oaths.
Marie Spartali Stillman was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.