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Special offer. When Love Speaks (Shakespeare's Sonnets)

Barbara Bonney, Bryan Ferry, Annie Lennox, Rufus Wainright, John Hurt, Kenneth Branagh, Diana Rigg, Joseph Fiennes, Imelda Staunton, Alan Rickman

When Love Speaks (Shakespeare's Sonnets)

Special offer. When Love Speaks (Shakespeare's Sonnets)

Barbara Bonney, Bryan Ferry, Annie Lennox, Rufus Wainright, John Hurt, Kenneth Branagh, Diana Rigg, Joseph Fiennes, Imelda Staunton, Alan Rickman

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A selection of William Shakespeare's much-loved sonnets, read by some of the world's finest actors, together with musical settings of passages from his sonnets and plays. The celebrated musicians have been brought together specially for this recording by the composer Michael Kamen. All the texts are included in the full-colour booklet, which features specially commissioned illustrations.

  • Release date: 5th Feb 2016
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Catalogue number: 2435573212
  • Length: 69 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

William Shakespeare: Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises (The Tempest, Act III, Scene II)
Work length0:47
  • Joseph Fiennes (vocals), Joesph Fiennes (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Live with me and be my love (from Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music)
Work length2:18
  • Annie Lennox
William Shakespeare: As an unperfect actor on the stage
Work length0:54
William Shakespeare: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Work length1:26
  • Alan Rickman (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Why is my verse so barren of new pride
Work length0:55
  • Diana Rigg (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Who will believe my verse in time to come
Work length1:04
  • Richard Attenborough (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: That you were once unkind befriends me now
Work length1:03
  • Paul Rhys (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: How oft, when thou, my music
Work length0:57
  • Juliet Stevenson (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
Work length3:00
William Shakespeare: Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Work length0:48
  • Janet McTeer (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
Work length1:10
  • Alan Bates (vocals)
William Shakespeare: When I consider everything that grows
Work length0:52
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste (performed by), Alix Verzier (musician), Alix Verzier (bass viol), Jérôme Hantaï (musician), Jérôme Hantaï (bass viol), Marianne Jean Baptiste (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by), Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord), Pierre Hantaï (musician)
William Shakespeare: Let those who are in favour with their stars
Work length0:52
  • David Warner (vocals)
William Shakespeare: They that have power to hurt and will do none
Work length0:53
  • Siân Philips (spoken voice vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by), Stu Philips (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Those lips that Love's own hand did make
Work length0:46
  • John Hurt (vocals)
Dowland: Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Work length4:42
William Shakespeare: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Work length0:57
  • Ralph Fiennes (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
Work length0:53
  • Matthew Rhys (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: I never saw that you did painting need
Work length0:58
William Shakespeare: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
Work length1:05
  • Kenneth Branagh (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Is it thy will thy image should keep open
Work length1:18
William Shakespeare: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
Work length0:54
  • Henry Goodman (vocals)
William Shakespeare: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
Work length3:25
  • Keb'Mo', Keb' Mo' (performed by)
William Shakespeare: O never say that I was false of heart
Work length0:57
  • Susannah York (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Work length0:57
  • Timothy Spall (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
Work length1:08
  • Peter Barkworth (narrator), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: How heavy do I journey on the way
Work length0:56
  • Gemma Jones (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
Work length1:06
  • Jonathan Pryce (vocals), Andrew Pryce (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
Work length0:53
  • Richard Wilson, Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: The quality of mercy is not strained (Portia - The Merchant of Venice)
Work length3:20
  • Des'ree, Des 'ree (vocals), Des'Ree Weekes (performed by)
William Shakespeare: Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Work length1:05
  • Tom Courtenay (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: SInce I left you, mine eye is in my mind
Work length1:02
  • Zoe Waites (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
Work length1:13
  • Edward Fox (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
Work length0:55
  • Trevor Eve (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: So is it not with me as with that Muse
Work length1:03
  • Imogen Stubbs (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws
Work length0:51
  • David Harewood (vocals)
William Shakespeare: The Willow Song (Desdemona - Othello)
Work length3:14
William Shakespeare: When my love swears that she is made of truth
Work length1:03
  • Richard Johnson (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: When I do count the clock that tells the time
Work length0:50
  • Martin Jarvis, Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: What potions have I drunk of siren tears
Work length1:04
  • Roger Hammond (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Work length0:45
  • Richard Briers (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
Work length0:52
  • John Sessions, Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Work length0:46
  • Thelma Holt (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Music to hear, why hears't thou music sadly
Work length3:26
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Lady Smith Black Mambazo (performed by)
William Shakespeare: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Work length0:56
  • Caroline Blakiston (vocals)
William Shakespeare: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Work length0:46
  • Peter Bowles (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
Work length1:12
  • Sylvia Syms, Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
Work length1:00
  • Robert Lindsay (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
Work length0:48
  • Ioan Gruffudd (spoken voice vocals), Joan Gruffudd (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
William Shakespeare: My love is as a fever, longing still
Work length1:04
  • John Hurt (vocals)
William Shakespeare: The little Love-God lying once asleep
Work length0:54
  • Bohdan Poraj (vocals), Bohan Poraj (vocals)
William Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Work length2:50
  • Bryan Ferry
William Shakespeare: Our revels now are ended (The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I)
Work length0:49
  • Joseph Fiennes (vocals), Joesph Fiennes (vocals)
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