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Artist: Various Artists
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 12 reviews
Sales Rank: 48618

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 57321
UPC: 724355732125
EAN: 0724355732125
ASIN: B00006357N

Release Date: April 23, 2002
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Tracks:

  • Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises - Joseph Fieness
  • Live With Me and Be My Love - Annie Lennox
  • As an unperfect actor on the stage - John Gielgud
  • My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun - Alan Rickman
  • Why is my verse so barren of new pride - Diana Rigg
  • Who will believe my verse in time to come - Richard Attenborough
  • That you were once unkind befriends me now - Paul Rhys
  • How oft, when thou, my music - Juliet Stevenson
  • When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes - Rufus Wainwright
  • Being your slave, what should I do but tend - Janet McTeer
  • Tired with all these, for restful death I cry - Alan Bates
  • When I consider everything that grows - Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  • Let those who are in favour with their stars - David Warner
  • They that have power to hurt and will do none - Sian Phillips
  • Those lips that Love's own hand did make - John Hurt
  • Come again sweet love (John Dowland) - John Potter
  • Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame - Ralph Fiennes
  • Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me - Matthew Rhys
  • I never saw that you did painting need - Imelda Staunton
  • When to the sessions of sweet silent thought - Kenneth Branagh
  • It is thy will thy image should keep open - Fiona Shaw
  • Mine eye and heart are at mortal war - Henry Goodman
  • No more be grieved at that which thou hast done - Keb' Mo'
  • O never say that I was false of heart - Susannah York
  • Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest - Timothy Spall
  • Some glory in their birth, some in their skill - Peter Barkworth
  • How heavy do I journey on the way - Gemma Jones
  • Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea - Jonathan Pryce
  • Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore - Richard Wilson
  • The quality of mercy is not straines - Des'ree
  • Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said - Tom Courtnay
  • Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind - Zoe Waites
  • Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press - Edward Fox
  • It is for fear to wet a widow's eye - Trevor Eve
  • So it is not with me as with that Muse - Imogen Stubbs
  • Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws - David Harewood
  • The Willow Song - Barbara Bonney
  • When my love swears that she is made of truth - Richard Johnson
  • When I do count the clock that tells the time - Martin Jarvis
  • What potions have I drunk of siren tears - Roger Hammond
  • Not marble nor the gilded monuments - Richard Briers
  • Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye - John Sessions
  • Let me not to the marriage of true minds - Thelma Holt
  • Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • When forty winters shall besiege thy brow - Caroline Blakiston
  • No longer mourn for me when I am dead - Peter Bowles
  • Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate - Sylvia Syms
  • Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day - Robert Lindsay
  • Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck - Ioan Gruffudd
  • My love is as a fever, longing still - John Hurt
  • The little Love-God lying once asleep - Bohdan Poraj
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day - Bryan Ferry
  • Our revels are now ended - Joseph Fiennes

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Editorial Reviews:

Album Description
When Love Speaks is a beautiful, classic gift of love inspired by the sonnets of William Shakespeare. A lovely 44-page book features all of the texts, with lovely original artwork and includes a single CD featuring William Shakespeare's love sonnets read by some of the finest actors in the world. Artists Rufus Wainright, Barbara Bonney, Des'ree, Bryan Ferry, Keb Mo, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Annie Lennox, and John Potter perform eight new, original songs. Much of the music was written and conducted by top film composer Michael Kamen.


Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sonnet bliss   October 12, 2008
Star Gazer (Ipswich UK)
To those of us that revel in the sound of poetry spoken at its best this collection of RADA artists reading Shakespeare's sonnets is pure joy. This collection is beautifully put together and the variety of sublime speaking voices brings each classic verse to life.If this were not enough the spoken voices are intermixed with musical versions performed by some of our most creative contemporary voices from the POP world such as Bryan Ferry, Annie Lennox and Rufus Wainright who bring an additional depth and nuance to their very individual interpretations that will make you want to go back again and again. Oh for more of th same.


5 out of 5 stars What a gift!   October 17, 2006
Stephenie (South Florida, USA)
This cd has made my drive to work so pleasant! Though there are admittedly, a few songs I usually skip, I feel nearly religious about how wonderful the readings on this cd are, and find myself bringing up out of thin air during random conversations.

For me, the stand out pieces are "Shall I compare thee..." which is sung so beautifully, "Sweet love doth now invite..." (which, I saw that Sting has now recorded on his new album but it is a little dry), Juliette Stevenson's wonderful playfulness with her sonnet, Fiona Shaw's reading, and Ralph Fiennes' piece where his voice is full of sharp intensity.

My seven year old has that one memorized. It is something to hear.

I've also recommended this cd to people for whom Shakespeare is a particularly tough egg to crack. Every day you hear a new angle you hadn't picked up on nor considered before, and in the readers' light it becomes simple to understand.



4 out of 5 stars Beautiful, well-chosen sonnets   August 24, 2006
Amber R. Habig (Carlisle, Ohio United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

The musical interludes did not really capture my attention vocally, except for Rufus Wainright's who gave the tune a nice style. The speakers had excellent voices and grasp of the material. I especially like Alan Rickman's, Juliet Stevenson's, Susanah Harker's, and Kenneth Branagh's readings. I recommend this CD especially if you are a Shakespeare fan.


5 out of 5 stars RADA; Royal Academy of Deficient Actors when compared to Joe Fiennes   July 17, 2006
Patricia Sorensen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

If you enjoy Shakespeare you will appreciate this recording of various sonnets performed by various English actors. Some are presented as musical pieces which seem forced and not enough time is allowed between readings,
HOWEVER, the most interesting aspect of the recording is that Mr. Fiennes, who was rejected by RADA as a student, is the only non-RADA graduate invited to participate in the recording.
Also , he is given the honor of performing the first and last selections. The reason why is obvious. His performance is so far superior to the others you wonder why they didn't just let him record the entire program.



5 out of 5 stars I wish Alan Rickman.........   April 27, 2006
Cynthia (San Jose, CA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

I wish Alan Rickman would engage in more spoken word recordings - his voice is incredible. As another reviewer wrote I, too, bought this CD for Rickman alone, but the cd is great from start to finish. Now, if Alan Rickman would only record something like Edgar Alan Poe's poems! Could you imagine THAT voice doing 'The Raven', or 'The Bells'. Haunting! Absolutely haunting. Please Mr. Rickman (bended kneee) read this and indulge your many fans!

BTW: For those of you who enjoy Alan Rickman, he has recorded 'Return of the Native' by Thomas Hardy -- it is super!


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