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Collection: A Lover's Gift - From Him To Her
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A collection of poetry and music expressing the romantic feelings of poets, writers and composers through the ages, including Shakespeare, Burns, Byron, Puccini, Grieg, Faure, and Elgar.
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Twelfth Night, Act I Scene 1: If music be the food of love, play on... (Shakespeare)
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Twelfth Night, Act I Scene 1: If music be the food of love, play on... (Shakespeare)
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Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 2: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks (Shakespeare)
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Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 2: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks (Shakespeare)
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day, "Sonnet XVIII" (Shakespeare)
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day, "Sonnet XVIII" (Shakespeare)
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Doctor Faustus: The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships (Marlowe)
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Doctor Faustus: The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships (Marlowe)
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Marlowe)
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Marlowe)
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Red, Red Rose (Burns)
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Red, Red Rose (Burns)
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The Rigs O' Barley (Burns)
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The Rigs O' Barley (Burns)
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Puccini, Giacomo Giacosa, Giuseppe / Illica, Luigi, lyricist(s)

La boheme, Act I: Che gelida manina
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La boheme, Act I: Che gelida manina
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David Copperfield: 'I don't think I had any definite idea of where Dora came from...' (Dickens)
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David Copperfield: 'I don't think I had any definite idea of where Dora came from... ' (Dickens)
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Persuasion: 'I have loved none but you...' (Austen)
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Persuasion: 'I have loved none but you... ' (Austen)
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Jane Eyre: 'I have for the first time found what I can truly love...' (Charlotte Bronte)
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Jane Eyre: 'I have for the first time found what I can truly love... ' (Charlotte Bronte)
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Far from the Madding Crowd: 'Such women as you a hundred men always covet' (Hardy)
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Far from the Madding Crowd: 'Such women as you a hundred men always covet' (Hardy)
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Perfect Woman (Wordsworth)
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Perfect Woman (Wordsworth)
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Love (Coleridge)
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Love (Coleridge)
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Puccini, Giacomo Giacosa, Giuseppe / Illica, Luigi, lyricist(s)

Tosca, Act III: E lucevan le stelle
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Tosca, Act III: E lucevan le stelle
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (Yeats)
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (Yeats)
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Summer Night (Tennyson)
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Summer Night (Tennyson)
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Confessions: 'Friendship, confidence, intimacy, sympathy of soul...' (Rousseau)
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Confessions: 'Friendship, confidence, intimacy, sympathy of soul... ' (Rousseau)
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Letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine
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Letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine
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Letters from Karl Marx to his wife Jenny
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Letters from Karl Marx to his wife Jenny
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My Heart's Friend (Shoshone Love Song)
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My Heart's Friend (Shoshone Love Song)
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Letter from Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet
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Letter from Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet
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Fidelity (D.H. Lawrence)
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Fidelity (D.H. Lawrence)
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Letter From Rupert Brooke To Katherine Cox
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Letter From Rupert Brooke To Katherine Cox
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Bizet, Georges Cormon, Eugene / Carre, Michel, lyricist(s)

Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers), Act 1: Au fond du temple saint
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Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers), Act 1: Au fond du temple saint
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She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)
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She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)
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As You Are Woman (Graves)
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As You Are Woman (Graves)
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Total Playing Time:
01:14:12
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Author(s):
Austen, Jane; Bonaparte, Napoleon; Bronte, Charlotte; Brooke, Rupert; Burns, Robert; Byron, Lord (George Gordon Byron); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Dickens, Charles; Flaubert, Gustave; Graves, Robert; Hardy, Thomas; Lawrence, David Herbert Richards; Marlowe, Christopher; Marx, Karl; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Shakespeare, William; Tennyson, Alfred; Wordsworth, William; Yeats, W.B.
Composer(s):
Bizet, Georges; Puccini, Giacomo
Lyricist(s):
Carre, Michel; Cormon, Eugene; Giacosa, Giuseppe; Illica, Luigi
Conductor(s):
Humburg, Will; Rahbari, Alexander; Wildner, Johannes
Orchestra(s):
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Artist(s):
Lamberti, Giorgio; Lotric, Janez; Morozov, Igor; Welch, Jonathan
Reader(s):
Sheen, Michael
Label: Naxos AudioBooks Genre: Opera; Poetry Period: 20th Century; Classical; Contemporary; Renaissance; Romantic
Catalogue No:
NA138912
Barcode:
9789626343890
Physical Release: 11/2006
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