Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi was a British actor best known for his stage roles, but also for many notable big- and small-screen performances. He was born in Leytonstone, London, to a working class family, and attended Leyton Sixth Form College where he joined the drama club, the Players of Leyton. The sixth form's production of Hamlet went to the Edinburgh Fringe, following which Jacobi won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge to read history. He played many roles while at the university, where Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn were also students at the time.
Laurence Olivier noticed the young actor in the early '60s, and invited him to become one of the founding members of the brand new National Theatre. After an eight-year run that included his performance of Cassio opposite Peter O'Toole's Othello, Jacobi left the National Theatre. As well as maintaining his stage career, he also branched out into television, and in 1976 he played the lead role in the BBC show I, Claudius, which proved to be a huge breakthrough for the actor and also earned him a BAFTA award. By 1980 he had toured the world playing Hamlet, and went on to make his Broadway debut in Suicide. In the same year he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, and was awarded a Tony for his role as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing during this time. He continued to juggle roles on both stage and screen, and moved into film, making appearances in Dead Again (1991), Gladiator (2000), Gosford Park (2001), and The King's Speech (2010). He also had huge success with the television series Cadfael, which ran from 1994 to 1998.
During his forays into screen acting he never sacrificed stage work. In 2009 he received a Laurence Olivier Award for his Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and garnered rave reviews for his role in Michael Grandage's King Lear in 2010. In 2012 he had further success on the small screen for his part in Sally Wainwright's Last Tango in Halifax, and in 2013, Jacobi was reunited with Ian McKellen for ITV's sitcom Vicious. Jacobi and actress Anne Reid, his co-star in Last Tango, went on to collaborate on an album of duets and solos called You Are the Best Thing...That Ever Has Happened to Me in 2016. The record was composed of covers from classic theater and the Great American Songbook. The musical departure wasn't a first for Jacobi, as he had previously worked with singer/songwriter Keaton Henson on a spoken word version of his track "You."
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (Excerpts Arr. for Brass Septet & Percussion)
Matthew Knight, Simon Cox, Scott Lumsdaine, Derek Jacobi, Septura
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 08.11.2019
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The Way of Light
Derek Jacobi, Eleanor Grant, Metro Voices, St. Catharine's College Girls' Choir, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Richard Balcombe
Klassik - Erschienen bei Orchid Classics am 01.01.2021
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SHAKESPEARE STORIES
Hörbücher - Erschienen bei Delos am 01.01.1999
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Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part 2
Sir Ian McKellen, Corin Redgrave, Derek Jacobi
Hörbücher - Erschienen bei Saland Publishing am 01.12.2010
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Whitfield, P.: History of English Poetry (The) (Unabridged)
Hörbücher - Erschienen bei Naxos Audiobooks am 29.09.2009
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Keenlyside, P.: History of English Literature (The) (Unabridged)
Jonathan Keeble, Teresa Gallagher, Derek Jacobi, Anton Lesser, John Shrapnel
Hörbücher - Erschienen bei Naxos Audiobooks am 06.06.2001
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Timson, D.: History of Theatre (The) (Unabridged)
Carole Boyd, Caroline Faber, Teresa Gallagher, Derek Jacobi, John McAndrew
Hörbücher - Erschienen bei Naxos Audiobooks am 09.10.2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo