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2002 compilation album of interpretations of Shakespeare's sonnets
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[1]
When Love Speaks is a
compilation album that features interpretations of
William Shakespeare 's
sonnets – some spoken, some set to music – and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under
EMI Classics in April 2002.
[1]
[2]
[3] The original idea came from Joy Gelardi (now Joy Beresford Frye) who proposed the album as a fund raiser for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. When that plan fell through, Joy and Michael Kamen, together with Alan Rickman, co-produced it in support of RADA. Alan chose the title, which alludes to a speech in
Love's Labour's Lost – "And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods make heaven drowsy with the harmony."
[4] – which is, however, not on the album.
Alan Rickman proposed the idea for a
benefit album for the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – where most of the featured actors on this album had studied
[1] – and together with
Richard Attenborough and
Michael Kamen backed it and recruited artists to participate. The launch took place at
The Old Vic .
[5]
Track listing
"Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises" (from
The Tempest – Act III, Scene II), performed by
Joseph Fiennes
"Live With Me and Be My Love" (from
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ,
Christopher Marlowe ), set to music and sung by
Annie Lennox
"As an unperfect actor on the stage" ("
Sonnet 23 "), performed by
John Gielgud
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" ("
Sonnet 130 "), performed by
Alan Rickman
"Why is my verse so barren of new pride" ("
Sonnet 76 "), performed by
Diana Rigg
"Who will believe my verse in time to come" ("
Sonnet 17 "), performed by
Richard Attenborough
"That you were once unkind befriends me now" ("
Sonnet 120 "), performed by
Paul Rhys
"How oft, when thou, my music" ("
Sonnet 128 "), performed by
Juliet Stevenson
"When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" ("
Sonnet 29 "), set to music and sung by
Rufus Wainwright
"Being your slave, what should I do but tend" ("
Sonnet 57 "), performed by
Janet McTeer
"Tired with all these, for restful death I cry" ("
Sonnet 66 "), performed by
Alan Bates
"When I consider everything that grows" ("
Sonnet 15 "), performed by
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
"Let those who are in favour with their stars" ("
Sonnet 25 "), performed by
David Warner
"They that have power to hurt and will do none" ("
Sonnet 94 "), performed by
Siân Phillips
"Those lips that Love's own hand did make" ("
Sonnet 145 "), performed by
John Hurt
"
Come again, sweet love doth now invite " (
John Dowland ) sung by
John Potter
"Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" ("
Sonnet 129 "), performed by
Ralph Fiennes
"Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me" ("
Sonnet 132 "), performed by
Matthew Rhys
"I never saw that you did painting need" ("
Sonnet 83 "), performed by
Imelda Staunton
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" ("
Sonnet 30 "), performed by
Kenneth Branagh
"Is it thy will thy image should keep open" ("
Sonnet 61 "), performed by
Fiona Shaw
"Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war" ("
Sonnet 46 "), performed by
Henry Goodman
"No more be grieved at that which thou hast done" ("
Sonnet 35 "), set to music and sung by
Keb' Mo'
"O never say that I was false of heart" ("
Sonnet 109 "), performed by
Susannah York
"Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest" ("
Sonnet 3 "), performed by
Timothy Spall
"Some glory in their birth, some in their skill" ("
Sonnet 91 "), performed by
Peter Barkworth
"How heavy do I journey on the way" ("
Sonnet 50 "), performed by
Gemma Jones
"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea" ("
Sonnet 65 "), performed by
Jonathan Pryce
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore" ("
Sonnet 60 "), performed by
Richard Wilson
"
The quality of mercy is not strained " (from
The Merchant of Venice – Act IV, Scene I), set to music and sung by
Des'ree
"Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said" ("
Sonnet 56 "), performed by
Tom Courtenay
"Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind" ("
Sonnet 113 "), performed by
Zoe Waites
"Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press" ("
Sonnet 140 "), performed by
Edward Fox
"Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye" ("
Sonnet 9 "), performed by
Trevor Eve
"So it is not with me as with that Muse" ("
Sonnet 21 "), performed by
Imogen Stubbs
"Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws" ("
Sonnet 19 "), performed by
David Harewood
"The Willow Song" (from
Othello – Act IV, Scene III), sung by
Barbara Bonney
"When my love swears that she is made of truth" ("
Sonnet 138 "), performed by
Richard Johnson
"When I do count the clock that tells the time" ("
Sonnet 12 "), performed by
Martin Jarvis
"What potions have I drunk of siren tears" ("
Sonnet 119 "), performed by
Roger Hammond
"Not marble nor the gilded monuments" ("
Sonnet 55 "), performed by
Richard Briers
"Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye" ("
Sonnet 62 "), performed by
John Sessions
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds" ("
Sonnet 116 "), performed by
Thelma Holt
"Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly" ("
Sonnet 8 "), set to music by
Joseph Shabalala and sung by
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
"When forty winters shall besiege thy brow" ("
Sonnet 2 "), performed by
Caroline Blakiston
"No longer mourn for me when I am dead" ("
Sonnet 71 "), performed by
Peter Bowles
"In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes" ("
Sonnet 141 "), performed by
Sylvia Syms
"Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day" ("
Sonnet 34 "), performed by
Robert Lindsay
"Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck" ("
Sonnet 14 "), performed by
Ioan Gruffudd
"My love is as a fever, longing still" ("
Sonnet 147 "), performed by
John Hurt
"The little Love-God lying once asleep" ("
Sonnet 154 "), performed by
Bohdan Poraj
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" ("
Sonnet 18 "), sung by
Bryan Ferry
"Our revels are now ended" (from
The Tempest – Act IV, Scene I), performed by
Joseph Fiennes
Personnel
Actors
Musicians
Barbara Bonney –
soprano
Caroline Dale –
cello
Des'ree – voice
Bryan Ferry – voice
Charles Green –
clarinet
Barry Guy –
double bass
Maya Homburger –
baroque violin
Michael Kamen –
piano ,
arranger ,
composer ,
conductor , producer, liner notes,
executive producer , string arrangements
Keb' Mo' – voice
Ladysmith Black Mambazo – voice
Annie Lennox – voice
Anna McGarrigle –
accordion
Kate McGarrigle –
banjo
Michel Pépin – bass,
guitar , producer, engineer, mixing
John Potter – voice
John Surman –
tenor saxophone
Stephen Stubbs –
lute
Gillian Tingay –
harp
Matthew Wadsworth – lute
Rufus Wainwright – piano, vocals, composer, producer
[6]
Joel Zifkin –
violin
Production
Tony Bridge –
mastering
Tim Atack –
mixing
James Brett –
producer ,
engineer , mixing
Joseph Shabalala – arranger, producer
Geoff Foster – engineer
Martin Jarvis – engineer
Anthony (Tony) Fisher – engineer
Brian Tench – engineer
Ned Douglas – engineer
Robert Lindsay – engineer
Don Murnaghan – engineer, mixing
Iain Roberton – engineer, mixing
Mark Johnson – engineer, mixing
Stephen McLaughlin – engineer, mixing
Ash Howes – mixing
Ricky Graham – mixing
Peter Cobbin – pre-mastering
Producers
References
External links