When Love Speaks - The Sonnets

VARIOUS ARTISTS

53 SONGS • 1 HOUR AND 9 MINUTES • FEB 14 2002

1

Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises (The Tempest, Act III, Scene II)

00:47

2

Live with me and be my love (from Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music)

02:18

3

As an unperfect actor on the stage

Sir John Gielgud

00:54

4

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

01:26

5

Why is my verse so barren of new pride

00:55

6

Who will believe my verse in time to come

Richard Attenborough

01:04

7

That you were once unkind befriends me now

01:03

8

How oft, when thou, my music

Juliet Stevenson

00:57

9

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

Rufus Wainwright

03:00

10

Being your slave, what should I do but tend

00:48

11

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry

01:10

12

When I consider everything that grows

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

00:52

13

Let those who are in favour with their stars

00:53

14

They that have power to hurt and will do none

00:53

15

Those lips that Love's own hand did make

Mississippi John Hurt

00:46

16

Come again, sweet love doth now invite

04:42

17

Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame

00:57

18

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me

00:53

19

I never saw that you did painting need

Imelda Staunton

00:58

20

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Kenneth Branagh

01:05

21

Is it thy will thy image should keep open

01:18

22

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war

00:54

23

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done

03:25

24

O never say that I was false of heart

00:57

25

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

00:57

26

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill

Peter Barkworth

01:08

27

How heavy do I journey on the way

00:56

28

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea

01:06

29

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore

00:53

30

The quality of mercy is not strained (Portia - The Merchant of Venice)

03:20

31

Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said

01:05

32

SInce I left you, mine eye is in my mind

01:02

33

Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press

01:13

34

Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye

00:55

35

So is it not with me as with that Muse

01:03

36

Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws

00:51

37

The Willow Song (Desdemona - Othello)

03:14

38

When my love swears that she is made of truth

Richard Johnson

01:03

39

When I do count the clock that tells the time

00:50

40

What potions have I drunk of siren tears

01:04

41

Not marble nor the gilded monuments

00:45

42

Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye

00:52

43

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

00:46

44

Music to hear, why hears't thou music sadly

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

03:26

45

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

Caroline Blakiston

00:56

46

No longer mourn for me when I am dead

00:46

47

In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes

01:12

48

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day

01:00

49

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck

00:48

50

My love is as a fever, longing still

Mississippi John Hurt

01:04

51

The little Love-God lying once asleep

00:54

52

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day

02:50

53

Our revels now are ended (The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I)

00:49

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