Shakespeare In Music & Words

 
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Shakespeare In Music & Words
Richard Pasco, Vanessa Redgrave, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir John Gielgud, Paul Hardwick, Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming & others

[ Decca / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 22 April 2016

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To celebrate 400 years of William Shakespeare, Decca presents a 2 disc set of music inspired by the Bard as well as highlights of his greatest written work.

CD 1 consists of famous classical pieces where the composers have taken inspiration from Shakespeare's best-loved plays and poems. Highlights include: Prokofiev's ' Dance of the Knights', Armstrong's ' Balcony Scene', Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' and Vaughan-Williams 'Three Shakespeare Songs' to name but a few.

CD 2 features a selection of Shakespeare's most famous speeches from his plays and sonnets. The recordings feature readings from acclaimed actors such as Richard Pasco, Vanessa Redgrave CBE, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir John Gielgud, Christopher Plummer and more. The short extracts, speeches and poems contained here are the perfect introduction to the work of William Shakespeare but also a fantastic anthology of best-loved pieces for those who know the work well. Highlights include:

Excerpts from Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and many more.

Tracks:

1. Dance Of the Knights [Prokofiev]
2. Fear no more the heat of the sun [Finzi]
3. "Ah, je veux vivre" [Gounod]
4. Theme From Romeo & Juliet - A Time For Us (Instrumental) [Rota]
5. No.1 Scherzo [Mendelssohn]
6. "O Let Me Weep, For Ever Weep" [Purcell]
7. "Falstaff!" - "Olà!" - "Sir John Falstaff!" [Verdi]
8. Balcony Scene (From "Romeo & Juliet") [Armstrong]
9. "Ave Maria, piena di grazia" [Verdi]
10. Come Away, Come Away, Death [Finzi]
11. Coro di Profughi Scozzesi: "Patria oppressa" [Verdi]
12. Touch her soft lips, and part; [Walton]
13. Wedding March [Mendelssohn]
14. "Vous soupirez, madame?" - "Nuit paisible et sereine!" [Berlioz]
15. Full Fathom Five [Vaughan Williams]
16. The Cloud-capp'd Towers [Vaughan Williams]
17. Over Hill, Over Dale [Vaughan Williams]
18. Love Theme [Tchaikovsky]
19. The Prologue - Troilus & Cressida (William Shakespeare)
20. Orsino discusses his love for Olivia - Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
21. Katherine's advice to women - The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
22. Benedict confesses his love - Much ado about nothing (William Shakespeare)
23. To be or not to be - Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
24. All the world's a stage - As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
25. Juliet impatiently awaits Romeo - Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
26. Othello tells how he won Desdemona's love - Othello (William Shakespeare)
27. Epilogue - As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
28. King Richard gives way to despair - Richard III (William Shakespeare)
29. Antony addresses the crowd after Caesar's assassination - Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
30. Macbeth hears of his wife's death - Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
31. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day- Sonnet 18 (William Shakespeare)
32. That time of year thou may'st in me behold - Sonnet 73 (William Shakespeare)
33. Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds - Sonnet 116 (William Shakespeare)
34. Lear and his fool on the heath - King Lear (William Shakespeare)
35. Antony dies in the arms of Cleopatra - Anthony & Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)
36. Prospero renounces his magic powers - The Tempest (William Shakespeare)