BBC R3 - Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus' [By Request]
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

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