When Love Speaks

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  • Release Date: 04/23/2002
  • Sales Rank: 59,122
  • Label: EMI CLASSICS
  • UPC: 724355732125

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When Love Speaks

1LISTENBe Not Afeard, the Isle Is Full of Noises (The Tempest) / Joseph Fiennes 0:47
2LISTENLive With Me and Be My Love / Annie Lennox 2:18
3LISTENAs an Unperfect Actor on the Stage / John Gielgud 0:54
4LISTENMy Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun / Alan Rickman 1:26
5LISTENWhy Is My Verse So Barren of New Pride / Diana Rigg 0:55
6LISTENWho Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come / Richard Attenborough 1:04
7LISTENThat You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now / Paul Rhys 1:03
8LISTENHow Oft, When Thou, My Music / Juliet Stevenson 0:57
9LISTENWhen, In Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes / Rufus Wainwright 3:00
10LISTENBeing Your Slave, What Should I Do but Tend / Janet McTeer 0:48
11LISTENTired With All These, For Restful Death I Cry / Alan Bates 1:10
12LISTENWhen I Consider Everything That Grows / Marianne Jean-Baptiste 0:52
13LISTENLet Those Who Are in Favour With Their Stars / David Warner 0:52
14LISTENThey That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None / Siān Phillips 0:53
15LISTENThose Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make / John Hurt 0:46
16LISTENCome Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite / John Potter 4:42
17LISTENTh' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame / Ralph Fiennes 0:57
18LISTENThine Eyes I Love, and They, As Pitying Me / Matthew Rhys 0:53
19LISTENI Never Saw That You Did Painting Need / Imelda Staunton 0:58
20LISTENWhen to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought / Kenneth Branagh 1:05
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An unusual collaboration, When Love Speaks features interpretations of William Shakespeare's sonnets and excerpts from his plays by high-profile actors and musicians. It almost goes without saying that performers such as John Gielgud, Jonathan Pryce, Diana Rigg, Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, and Susannah York give accomplished readings of the Bard's work; the musical interludes, which range from the adult alternative pop of Annie Lennox's "Live With Me and Be My Love" to Keb' Mo''s bluesy "No More Be Grieved at That Which Thou Hast Done," aren't quite as successful but add diversity. Highlights include Alan Rickman's reading of "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun," Rufus Wainwright's "When, in Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes," and Bryan Ferry's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day." Other featured performers include Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Barbara Bonney, Tom Courtenay, and Kenneth Branagh. As a benefit album for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts -- where most of the featured actors on this album studied -- and as a tribute to Shakespeare, When Love Speaks does an admirable job of marrying high culture to pop culture. Heather Phares, All Music Guide

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