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)
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.
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
- Alan Rickman (vocals)
- Richard Attenborough (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
- Paul Rhys (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
- Juliet Stevenson (vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by)
- Aotearoa Maori Entertainers (voices), Rufus Wainwright (voices)
- Janet McTeer (vocals)
- Alan Bates (vocals)
- 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)
- David Warner (vocals)
- Siân Philips (spoken voice vocals), Michael Kamen (production produced & managed by), Stu Philips (vocals)
