Wybór najwspanialszych sonetów Williama Shakespeare'a, recytowanych przez najznakomitszych aktorów świata, wraz z muzycznym opracowaniem w wykonaniu legendarnych muzyków.
Wspaniały prezent walentynkowy, a przy tym hołd składany Shakespearowi w 400 rocznicę śmierci. Wykonawców do tego nagrania wybrał kompozytor Michael Kamen. Wszystkie teksty są zawarte w kolorowej książeczce, w której znajdują się przepiękne ilustracje, zamówione specjalnie na potrzeby tego albumu.
Lista utworów:
1. Joseph Fiennes - Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises (The Tempest)
2. Annie Lennox - Live with me and be my love (Christopher Marlowe)
3. John Gielgud - As an unperfect actor on the stage (23)
4. Alan Rickman - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (130)
5. Diana Rigg - Why is my verse so barren of new pride (76)
6. Richard Attenborough - Who will believe my verse in time to come (17)
7. Paul Rhys - That you were once unkind befriends me now (120)
8. Juliet Stevenson - How oft, when thou, my music (128)
9. Rufus Wainwright - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (29)
10. Janet McTeer - Being your slave, what should I do but tend (57)
11. Alan Bates - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (66)
12. Marianne Jean-Baptiste - When I consider everything that grows (15)
13. David Warner - Let those who are in favour with their stars (25)
14. Sian Phillips - They that have power to hurt and will do none (94)
15. John Hurt - Those lips that Love's own hand did make (145)
16. John Potter - Come again: sweet love doth now invite
17. Ralph Fiennes - Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame (129)
18. Matthew Rhys - Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me (132)
19. Imelda Staunton - I never saw that you did painting need (83)
20. Kenneth Branagh - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (30)
21. Fiona Shaw - Is it thy will thy image should keep open (61)
22. Henry Goodman - Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war (46)
23. Keb' Mo' - No more be grieved at that which thou hast done (35)
24. Susannah York - O never say that I was false of heart (109)
25. Timothy Spall - Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest (3)
26. Peter Barkworth - Some glory in their birth, some in their skill (91)
27. Gemma Jones - How heavy do I journey on the way (50)
28. Jonathan Pryce - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea(65)
29. Richard Wilson - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (60)
30. Des'ree - The quality of mercy is not strained (The Merchant of Venice)
31. Tom Courtenay - Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said (56)
32. Zoe Waites - Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind (113)
33. Edward Fox - Be wise as thou art cruel ; do not press (140)
34. Trevor Eve - Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye (9)
35. Imogen Stubbs - So is it not with me as with that Muse (21)
36. David Harewood - Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (19)
37. Barbara Bonney - The Willow Song (Othello)
38. Richard Johnson - When my love swears that she is made of truth (138)
39. Martin Jarvis - When I do count the clock that tells the time (12)
40. Roger Hammond - What potions have I drunk of siren tears (119)
41. Richard Briers - Not marble nor the gilded monuments (55)
42. John Sessions - Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (62)
43. Thelma Holt - Let me not to the marriage of true minds (116)
44. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Music to hear, why hears't thou music sadly(8)
45. Caroline Blakiston - When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (2)
46. Peter Bowles - No longer mourn for me when I am dead (71)
47. Sylvia Syms - In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes (141)
48. Robert Lindsay - Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day (34)
49. Ioan Gruffudd - Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck (14)
50. John Hurt - My love is as a fever, longing still (147)
51. Bohdan Poraj - The little Love-God lying once asleep (154)
52. Bryan Ferry - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (18)
53. Joseph Fiennes - Our revels now are ended (The Tempest)