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Author(s): Shakespeare, William
Reader(s): Carvel, Bertie; Cauthery, Gunnar; Gonet, Stella; Jennings, Alex; Keeble, Jonathan; Lesser, Anton; McMillan, Roy; Mison, Tom; Peake, Maxine; Piazza, Anne-Marie; Ross, Hugh; Soames, Benjamin; Stevenson, Juliet; Tennant, David; Timson, David; White, Trevor
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Poetry
Period: Renaissance
Catalogue No: NA195612
Barcode: 9789626349564
Release Date: 04/2009
SHAKESPEARE, W.: From Shakespeare - With Love (The Best of Sonnets)
William Shakespeare’s ‘sugared sonnets’ circulated privately amongst his friends and colleagues for many years, but the public had to wait until their publication in 1609 to enjoy these masterpieces on every aspect of love. Whether it’s fidelity, obsession, jealousy or the love of friends, Shakespeare seems to know about it all. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of their publication, a rich variety of have been brought together to show the many different ways in which these sonnets can be interpreted.
Tracklist
Shakespeare, William - Author
Tennant, David (Reader)
Carvel, Bertie (Reader)
Piazza, Anne-Marie (Reader)
Ross, Hugh (Reader)
Timson, David (Reader)
Gonet, Stella (Reader)
Cauthery, Gunnar (Reader)
Jennings, Alex (Reader)
Soames, Benjamin (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Stevenson, Juliet (Reader)
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
White, Trevor (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Mison, Tom (Reader)
Carvel, Bertie (Reader)
Piazza, Anne-Marie (Reader)
Ross, Hugh (Reader)
Timson, David (Reader)
Gonet, Stella (Reader)
Cauthery, Gunnar (Reader)
Jennings, Alex (Reader)
Soames, Benjamin (Reader)
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
Stevenson, Juliet (Reader)
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
White, Trevor (Reader)
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Mison, Tom (Reader)
|  | 1 | Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow | 01:01 |
Tennant, David (Reader)
| | 2 | Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface | 00:55 |
Carvel, Bertie (Reader)
| | 3 | Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light | 00:53 |
Tennant, David (Reader)
| | 4 | Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? | 01:01 |
Carvel, Bertie (Reader)
| | 5 | Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye | 00:52 |
Tennant, David (Reader)
| | 6 | Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any | 00:56 |
Carvel, Bertie (Reader)
| | 7 | Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st | 01:00 |
Tennant, David (Reader)
| | 8 | Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time | 00:57 |
Carvel, Bertie (Reader)
| | 9 | Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck | 00:55 |
Tennant, David (Reader)
| | 10 | Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come | 01:00 |
Tennant, David (Reader)
| | 11 | Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | 00:58 |
Tennant, David (Reader)
| | 12 | Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws | 00:58 |
Piazza, Anne-Marie (Reader)
| | 13 | Sonnet 20: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted | 01:04 |
Ross, Hugh (Reader)
| | 14 | Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse | 01:00 |
Ross, Hugh (Reader)
| | 15 | Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old | 00:58 |
Ross, Hugh (Reader)
| | 16 | Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage | 00:59 |
Piazza, Anne-Marie (Reader)
| | 17 | Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars | 00:54 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 18 | Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage | 01:02 |
Piazza, Anne-Marie (Reader)
| | 19 | Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed | 00:59 |
Piazza, Anne-Marie (Reader)
| | 20 | Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes | 01:00 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 21 | Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought | 00:51 |
Gonet, Stella (Reader)
| | 22 | Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts | 00:51 |
Gonet, Stella (Reader)
| | 23 | Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day | 00:58 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 24 | Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen | 00:54 |
Cauthery, Gunnar (Reader)
| | 25 | Sonnet 35: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done | 00:59 |
Cauthery, Gunnar (Reader)
| | 26 | Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight | 00:55 |
Ross, Hugh (Reader)
| | 27 | Sonnet 38: How can my muse want subject to invent | 00:54 |
Ross, Hugh (Reader)
| | 28 | Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all | 00:58 |
Gonet, Stella (Reader)
| | 29 | Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits | 00:54 |
Jennings, Alex (Reader)
| | 30 | Sonnet 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief | 01:03 |
Jennings, Alex (Reader)
| | 31 | Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come | 00:59 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 32 | Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way | 00:57 |
Soames, Benjamin (Reader)
| | 33 | Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made | 00:53 |
Gonet, Stella (Reader)
| | 34 | Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments | 00:55 |
Soames, Benjamin (Reader)
| | 35 | Sonnet 57: Being your slave what should I do but tend | 00:55 |
Soames, Benjamin (Reader)
| | 36 | Sonnet 61: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open | 00:53 |
Gonet, Stella (Reader)
| | 37 | Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now | 00:52 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 38 | Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea | 01:02 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 39 | Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view | 01:01 |
Soames, Benjamin (Reader)
| | 40 | Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead | 00:46 |
Stevenson, Juliet (Reader)
| | 41 | Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold | 00:59 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 42 | Sonnet 80: O! how I faint when I of you do write | 00:58 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 43 | Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need | 00:53 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 44 | Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse | 00:51 |
Lesser, Anton (Reader)
| | 45 | Sonnet 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing | 01:09 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 46 | Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault | 00:50 |
Timson, David (Reader)
| | 47 | Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now | 00:52 |
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
| | 48 | Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill | 00:55 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 49 | Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thyself away | 00:50 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 50 | Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true | 00:52 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 51 | Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt, and will do none | 00:58 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 52 | Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been | 00:50 |
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
| | 53 | Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide | 00:56 |
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
| | 54 | Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old | 00:58 |
Stevenson, Juliet (Reader)
| | 55 | Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time | 00:50 |
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
| | 56 | Sonnet 109: O! never say that I was false of heart | 00:56 |
White, Trevor (Reader)
| | 57 | Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds | 00:51 |
Stevenson, Juliet (Reader)
| | 58 | Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now | 00:58 |
White, Trevor (Reader)
| | 59 | Sonnet 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd | 00:56 |
White, Trevor (Reader)
| | 60 | Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair | 00:59 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 61 | Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st | 00:57 |
Cauthery, Gunnar (Reader)
| | 62 | Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame | 01:03 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 63 | Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun | 00:58 |
Cauthery, Gunnar (Reader)
| | 64 | Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan | 00:54 |
Mison, Tom (Reader)
| | 65 | Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine | 00:53 |
Mison, Tom (Reader)
| | 66 | Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near | 00:55 |
Mison, Tom (Reader)
| | 67 | Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes | 00:50 |
Mison, Tom (Reader)
| | 68 | Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth | 00:59 |
White, Trevor (Reader)
| | 69 | Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press | 00:53 |
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
| | 70 | Sonnet 141: In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes | 00:52 |
Mison, Tom (Reader)
| | 71 | Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair | 00:49 |
Mison, Tom (Reader)
| | 72 | Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever longing still | 00:50 |
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
| | 73 | Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head | 01:02 |
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
| | 74 | Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not | 00:55 |
Mison, Tom (Reader)
| | 75 | Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep | 01:02 |
Tennant, David (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 01:10:05