When Love Speaks is a collection of Shakespearean love sonnets as read by
famous actors, and songs inspired by Shakespeare.s love sonnets.
An unusual collaboration, When Love Speaks features interpretations of William
Shakespeare.s sonnets and excerpts from his plays by high-profile actors and
musicians. It almost goes without saying that performers such as John Gielgud,
Jonathan Pryce, Diana Rigg, Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, and Susannah York give
accomplished readings of the Bard.s work; the musical interludes, which range
from the adult alternative pop of Annie Lennox.s .Live With Me and Be My Love.
to Keb. Mo.s bluesy .No More Be Grieved at That Which Thou Hast Done,. aren.t
quite as successful but add diversity. Highlights include Alan Rickman.s
reading of .My Mistress. Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun,. Rufus Wainwright.s
.When, in Disgrace With Fortune and Men.s Eyes,. and Bryan Ferry.s .Shall I
Compare Thee to a Summer.s Day.. Other featured performers include Ladysmith
Black Mambazo, Barbara Bonney, Tom Courtenay, and Kenneth Branagh. As a benefit
album for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts - where most of the featured actors
on this album studied - and as a tribute to Shakespeare, When Love Speaks does
an admirable job of marrying high culture to pop culture.-Heather Phares
Recorded at Waceeffect Studios, London, England and at Voice Box Studios, Los
Angeles, California.
Composer: Michael Kamen
Personnel: Rufus Wainwright (vocals, piano); Michel Pepin (guitar); Kate
McGarrigle (banjo); Gillian Tingay (harp); Matthew Wadsworth, John Surman (lute);
Joel Zifkin (violin); Caroline Dale (cello); Anna McGarrigle (accordion); Charles
Green (clarinet); Maya Homburger (soprano saxophone); Stephen Stubbs (tenor
saxophone); Michael Kamen (piano)
01. Be Not Afeard, the Isle Is Full of Noises (The Tempest) - Joseph Fiennes
02. Live With Me and Be My Love - Annie Lennox
03. As an Unperfect Actor on the Stage - John Gielgud
04. My Mistress. Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun - Alan Rickman
05. Why Is My Verse So Barren of New Pride - Diana Rigg
06. Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come - Richard Attenborough
07. That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now - Paul Rhys
08. How Oft, When Thou, My Music - Juliet Stevenson
09. 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 Philips
15. Those Lips That Love.s Own Hand Did Make - John Hurt
16. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite - 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. Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open - Fiona Shaw
22. Mine Eye and Heart Are at a 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. Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained, The (The Merchant of Venice) - Des.ree
31. Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force; Be It Not Said - Tom Courtenay
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. Is It for Fear to Wet a Widow.s Eye - Trevor Eve
35. So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse - Imogen Stubbs
36. Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion.s Paws
37. Willow Song, The (Othello) - 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 Hears.t 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. In Faith I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes - Sylvia Sims
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. Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep, The - Bohdan Poraj
52. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer.s Day - Bryan Ferry
53. Our Revels Now Are Ended (The Tempest) - Joseph Fiennes
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