Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Notes:
Compilation album made by RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) that features interpretations of William Shakespeare's sonnets - some spoken, some set to music - and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians.
Comes in a standard jewel case with cardboard slip-cover and a 58-page booklet.
All actors were recorded at Waveeffect Studios, London (except tracks 3, 4, 39, 48). Track 4 at Essential Music, track 39 at Voice Box Studios, Los Angeles, track 48 at Lynx Video Ltd.
Track 9 recorded at Frissons Studio, Montreal.
Track 16 from the album In Darkness Let e Dwell, ECM Records New Series 1697.
Track 23 recorded at Stu Stu Studio, Santa Monica, California
Track 30 recorded at Air Lyndhurst Studios, London.
Track 37 recorded and mixed at Sarm West, London.
Track 44 recorded at Mambazo Studios, Kloof, South Africa.
Track 52 recorded at Sarm West, London.
Pre-mastered at Abbey Road. Album mastered at Sony Music Studios, London.
This compilation ℗ EMI Records Ltd. © 2002 EMI Records Ltd.
Made in the EU
Durations not indicated.
1. Joseph Fiennes - Be Not Afeard, The Isle Is Full Of Noises (The Tempest) 0:48
2. Annie Lennox - Live With Me And Be My Love (Christopher Marlowe) 2:19
3. John Gielgud - As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage (23) 0:54
4. Alan Rickman - My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun (130) 1:27
5. Diana Rigg - Why Is My Verse So Barren Of New Pride (76) 0:56
6. Richard Attenborough - Who Will Believe My Verse In Time To Come (17) 1:04
7. Paul Rhys (2) - That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now (120) 1:04
8. Juliet Stevenson - How Oft, When Thou, My Music (128) 0:57
9. Rufus Wainwright - When, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes (29) 3:01
10. Janet McTeer - Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend (57) 0:48
11. Alan Bates (2) - Tired With All These, For Restful Death I Cry (66) 1:10
12. Marianne Jean-Baptiste - When I Consider Everything That Grows (15) 0:52
13. David Warner - Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars (25) 0:53
14. Siân Phillips - They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None (94) 0:54
15. John Hurt (2) - Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make (145) 0:47
16. John Potter (2) - Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite 4:42
17. Ralph Fiennes - Th'expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame (129) 0:57
18. Matthew Rhys - Thine Eyes I Love, And They, As Pitying Me (132) 0:53
19. Imelda Staunton - I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need (83) 0:59
20. Kenneth Branagh - When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought (30) 1:06
21. Fiona Shaw - Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open (61) 1:18
22. Henry Goodman - Mine Eye And Heart Are At A Mortal War (46) 0:55
23. Keb Mo - No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done (35) 3:25
24. Susannah York - O Never Say That I Was False Of Heart (109) 0:58
25. Timothy Spall - Look In Thy Glass And Tell The Face Thou Viewest (3) 0:58
26. Peter Barkworth - Some Glory In Their Birth, Some In Their Skill (91) 1:08
27. Gemma Jones - How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way (50) 0:56
28. Jonathan Pryce - Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea (65) 1:06
29. Richard Wilson - Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore (60) 0:53
30. Des'ree - The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strained (The Merchant Of Venice) 3:21
31. Tom Courtenay - Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force; Be It Not Said (56) 1:05
32. Zoe Waites - Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is In My Mind (113) 1:03
33. Edward Fox - Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel ; Do Not Press (140) 1:13
34. Trevor Eve - Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow's Eye (9) 0:55
35. Imogen Stubbs - So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse (21) 1:03
36. David Harewood - Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws (19) 0:51
37. Barbara Bonney - The Willow Song (Othello) 3:14
38. Richard Johnson (3) - When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth (138) 1:03
39. Martin Jarvis - When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time (12) 0:50
40. Roger Hammond (4) - What Potions Have I Drunk Of Siren Tears (119) 1:05
41. Richard Briers - Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments (55) 0:46
42. John Sessions - Sin Of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye (62) 0:52
43. Thelma Holt - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds (116) 0:46
44. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Music To Hear, Why Hears't Thou Music Sadly (8) 3:26
45. Caroline Blakiston - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow (2) 0:57
46. Peter Bowles - No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead (71) 0:47
47. Sylvia Syms - In Faith I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes (141) 1:12
48. Robert Lindsay - Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day (34) 1:01
49. Ioan Gruffudd - Not From The Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck (14) 0:48
50. John Hurt (2) - My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still (147) 1:05
51. Bohdan Poraj - The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep (154) 0:55
52. Bryan Ferry - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day (18) 2:51
53. Joseph Fiennes - Our Revels Now Are Ended (The Tempest) 0:50
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Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Barcode 7 24355 73212 5
Mastering SID Code IFPI L047
Matrix / Runout EMI UDEN 5572782 @ 1
Matrix / Runout 1-2-9-NL
Distribution Code CDC
Price Code PM 518
SPARS Code DDD/ADD
Phonographic Copyright (p) EMI Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) EMI Records Ltd.
Recorded At Waveeffect Studios
Recorded At Studio Frisson
Recorded At Air Lyndhurst Hall
Recorded At Stu Stu Studio, Marina Del Rey, CA
Recorded At Sarm West Studios
Recorded At Mambazo Studios
Mastered At Abbey Road Studios
Mastered At Sony Music Studios, London
Glass Mastered At EMI Uden
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