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Various Artists
When Love Speaks
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Classical

Track Listings (53) - Disc #1
1. Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises - Joseph Fieness
2. Live With Me and Be My Love - Annie Lennox
3. As an unperfect actor on the stage - John Gielgud
4. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun - Alan Rickman
5. Why is my verse so barren of new pride - Diana Rigg
6. Who will believe my verse in time to come - Richard Attenborough
7. That you were once unkind befriends me now - Paul Rhys
8. How oft, when thou, my music - Juliet Stevenson
9. When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes - Rufus Wainwright
10. Being your slave, what should I do but tend - Janet McTeer
11. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry - Alan Bates
12. When I consider everything that grows - Marianne Jean-Baptiste
13. Let those who are in favour with their stars - David Warner
14. They that have power to hurt and will do none - Sian Phillips
15. Those lips that Love's own hand did make - John Hurt
16. Come again sweet love (John Dowland) - John Potter
17. Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame - Ralph Fiennes
18. Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me - Matthew Rhys
19. I never saw that you did painting need - Imelda Staunton
20. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought - Kenneth Branagh
21. It is thy will thy image should keep open - Fiona Shaw
22. Mine eye and heart are at mortal war - Henry Goodman
23. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done - Keb' Mo'
24. O never say that I was false of heart - Susannah York
25. Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest - Timothy Spall
26. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill - Peter Barkworth
27. How heavy do I journey on the way - Gemma Jones
28. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea - Jonathan Pryce
29. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore - Richard Wilson
30. The quality of mercy is not straines - Des'ree
31. Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said - Tom Courtnay
32. Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind - Zoe Waites
33. Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press - Edward Fox
34. It is for fear to wet a widow's eye - Trevor Eve
35. So it is not with me as with that Muse - Imogen Stubbs
36. Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws - David Harewood
37. The Willow Song - Barbara Bonney
38. When my love swears that she is made of truth - Richard Johnson
39. When I do count the clock that tells the time - Martin Jarvis
40. What potions have I drunk of siren tears - Roger Hammond
41. Not marble nor the gilded monuments - Richard Briers
42. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye - John Sessions
43. Let me not to the marriage of true minds - Thelma Holt
44. Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
45. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow - Caroline Blakiston
46. No longer mourn for me when I am dead - Peter Bowles
47. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate - Sylvia Syms
48. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day - Robert Lindsay
49. Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck - Ioan Gruffudd
50. My love is as a fever, longing still - John Hurt
51. The little Love-God lying once asleep - Bohdan Poraj
52. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day - Bryan Ferry
53. Our revels are now ended - Joseph Fiennes

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CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: When Love Speaks
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Classics
Release Date: 4/23/2002
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Classical
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Europe, Britain & Ireland, Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews, Adult Contemporary, Singer-Songwriters, Adult Alternative
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 724355732125

Synopsis

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.

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CD Reviews

I wish Alan Rickman.........

Cynthia | San Jose, CA | 04/27/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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!"

RADA; Royal Academy of Deficient Actors when compared to Joe

Patricia Sorensen | 07/17/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."

Beautiful, well-chosen sonnets

Amber R. Habig | Carlisle, Ohio United States | 08/24/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"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."