Peter Shaffer - Amadeus (BBC)

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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

Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Thanks to Donleavy for improved sound quality





Peter Shaffer's magnificent 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.



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







Cast

Paul Scofield

Simon Callow

Felicity Kendal

Donald Gee

Susan Gilmore

John Normington

William Sleigh

Willoughby Goddard

Basil Henson

Nicholas Selby

Peggy Marshall

Glenn Williams

Robin Meredith

Nigel Bellairs

Anne Sedgwick

Dermont Crawley