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    07/20/1999

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    All Music Guide Review

    It's more or less accepted that Shakespeare is the greatest writer in English, but this large box set shows he was a really a musician of language.. The speeches and scenes spread over the course of 6 CDs, carefully arranged to cover themes of love, wonder, humanity and death, play like brief symphonic passages. Indeed, in the hands of actors like Richard Burton, Brian Murray, Vanessa Redgrave and Orson Welles, the material truly sings. While some may find the editing a bit choppy, slicing passages to their best known parts, the goal is clearly to celebrate the wisdom and art of the Bard. While the context of some of the passages may be a bit foggy to a first-time listener, the final two disc offer an entire performance of Romeo and Juliet with Claire Bloom and Albert Finney. ~ Tim Sheridan, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • 1
  • Good Day, Good Day/Good Morrow to This Fair Assembly/Good Morrow, Ajax
  • 2:46

  • 2
  • O for a Muse of Fire
  • :14

  • 3
  • O Brave New World
  • Massey, Anna
  • :16

  • 4
  • What a Piece of Work Is Man
  • Scofield, Paul
  • :36

  • 5
  • All the World's a Stage
  • Adrian, Max
  • 1:52

  • 6
  • Life's But a Walking Shadow
  • Barrymore, John
  • :53

  • 7
  • They Kill Us for Their Sport
  • Cusack, Cyril
  • :31

  • 8
  • Man Proud Man
  • Leighton, Margaret
  • :26

  • 9
  • Some Vicious Mole of Nature
  • Scofield, Paul
  • :47

  • 10
  • The Web of Our Life
  • Thorndyke, Daniel
  • :14

  • 11
  • The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained
  • Tutin, Dorothy
  • 1:19

  • 12
  • Our Remedies Oft in Ourselves Do Lie
  • Bloom, Claire
  • :59

  • 13
  • Hath Not a Few Eyel?
  • Griffith, Hugh
  • 1:23

  • 14
  • I Will a Round Unvarnish'd Tale Deliver
  • Robeson, Paul
  • 1:07

  • 15
  • I Am Not What I Am
  • Cusack, Cyril
  • 1:20

  • 16
  • I Edgar Nothing Am
  • Stephens, Robert
  • 1:23

  • 17
  • Oh What a Rogue and Peasant Slave Am I
  • Barrymore, John
  • 4:17

  • 18
  • Herein Will I Imitate the Sun
  • Johnson, Richard
  • 1:10

  • 19
  • Banish Plump Jack, And Banish All the World
  • 1:37

  • 20
  • I Haue of Late
  • Scofield, Paul
  • :46

  • 21
  • It Is a Melancholy of Mine Own
  • 1:34

  • 22
  • There Was a Star Danced
  • :15

  • 23
  • He Is All Mirth
  • Webb, Alan
  • :21

  • 24
  • I Am That Merry Wanderer of the Night
  • Hughes, Ian
  • :49

  • 25
  • Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I
  • Redgrave, Vanessa
  • :37

  • 26
  • A Born Devil
  • Redgrave, Michael
  • :22

  • 27
  • A Man or a Fish?
  • Barker, Ronnie
  • :25

  • 28
  • For Her Own Person, It Beg Gar'd All Description
  • Gwillim, Jack
  • 1:28

  • 29
  • O, How That Name Befits My Composition
  • 1:04

  • 30
  • Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess
  • Stride, John
  • 1:35

  • 31
  • Can I Do This, And Cannot Get a Crown?
  • Barrymore, John
  • 3:37

  • 32
  • Come, You Spirits
  • Anderson, Judith
  • 1:09

  • 33
  • One More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends
  • Olivier, Laurence
  • 2:06

  • 34
  • The Other Eden
  • McKern, Leo
  • 1:56

  • 35
  • Mine Honor Is My Life
  • Brett, Jeremy
  • :26

  • 36
  • Honor Is a Mere Scutcheon
  • Quayle, Anthony
  • 1:24

  • 37
  • I Would Give All My Fame for a Pot of Ale and Safety
  • :22

  • 38
  • I Am Not Only Witty in Myself
  • Quayle, Anthony
  • :08

  • 39
  • I Am a Great Eater of Beef
  • Neville, John
  • :14

  • 40
  • Here Come Romeo
  • 1:26

  • 41
  • Didst Thou Ever See Me Do Such a Trick?
  • 1:17

  • 42
  • I Can Compare Our Rich Miser
  • :44

  • 43
  • Wherefore, Sweetheart What's Your Metaphor?
  • Goddard, Wiloughby
  • 1:16

  • 44
  • In the Secret Parts of Fortune?
  • :26

  • 45
  • Motley's the Only Wear
  • 1:18

  • 46
  • Wast Ever in Court, Shepherd?
  • 1:22

  • 47
  • This Fellow Is Wise Enough to Play the Fool
  • 2:45

  • 48
  • Sirrah, You Were Best to Take My Coxcomb
  • 1:52

  • 49
  • It Hath Made Me Mad
  • :09

  • 50
  • O What a Noble Mind Is Here Overthrown
  • Walker, Zena
  • :51

  • 51
  • Away! The Foul Fiend Follows Me!
  • 1:51

  • 52
  • Out, Damn'd Spot!
  • Anderson, Judith
  • 2:38

  • 53
  • O Fool, I Shall Go Mad
  • Scofield, Paul
  • 2:01

  • 54
  • The Lunatic, The Lover & The Poet
  • Ellis, Jack
  • :54

  • 55 (2)
  • Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred?
  • Wood, Frank
  • 2:00

  • 56 (2)
  • Beauty Itself Doth of Itself Persuade
  • Burton, Richard
  • :07

  • 57 (2)
  • God Bless My Ladies! Are They All in Love
  • 1:47

  • 58 (2)
  • O She Doth Teach the Torches to Burn Bright
  • Sheen, Michael
  • :47

  • 59 (2)
  • It With His Tongue, He Cannot Win a Woman
  • Wyngarde, Peter
  • :07

  • 60 (2)
  • Fair Katherine, And Most Fair
  • 5:58

  • 61 (2)
  • Good Morrow, Kate
  • 4:45

  • 62 (2)
  • Was Ever Woman in the Humor Woo'd?
  • 4:26

  • 63 (2)
  • She Lov'd Me for the Dangers I Had Pass'd
  • Robeson, Paul
  • 2:06

  • 64 (2)
  • The Honorable Lady of the House, Which Is She?
  • 4:34

  • 65 (2)
  • Love Me! Why, It Must Be Requited
  • Harrison, Rex
  • 2:02

  • 66 (2)
  • Come Woo Me, Woo Me
  • 2:28

  • 67 (2)
  • This Bud of Love
  • 2:42

  • 68 (2)
  • Love Is a Spirit All Compact of Fire
  • Adrian, Max
  • :12

  • 69 (2)
  • Perditton Catch My Soul, But I Do Love Thee
  • Robeson, Paul
  • :16

  • 70 (2)
  • Give Me to Drink Mandragon
  • 1:59

  • 71 (2)
  • Come, Night, Come, Romeo
  • Beckinsale, Kate
  • 2:08

  • 72 (2)
  • O Coz, Coz, Coz
  • Redgrave, Vanessa
  • :20

  • 73 (2)
  • I Am Giddy
  • Brett, Jeremy
  • :41

  • 74 (2)
  • How Now, My Love!
  • 2:39

  • 75 (2)
  • What Angel Wakes Me from My Flowery Bed?
  • 4:10

  • 76 (2)
  • Do Not You Love Me?
  • 1:09

  • 77 (2)
  • How Sweet the Moonlight
  • Holm, Ian
  • :40

  • 78 (2)
  • I Am Your Spaniel
  • 2:54

  • 79 (2)
  • My Idolatrous Fancy Must Sanctify His Reliques
  • Bloom, Claire
  • 1:14

  • 80 (2)
  • O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!
  • 1:03

  • 81 (2)
  • It Music Be the Fool of Love, Play On
  • Hardy, Robert
  • 1:29

  • 82 (2)
  • Like Patience on a Monument
  • Hardy, Robert
  • :55

  • 83 (2)
  • Now Fair Hippolyta, Our Nuptial Hour
  • 1:06

  • 84 (2)
  • This Dear Encounter
  • :38

  • 85 (2)
  • Does Thou in Conscience Think
  • 3:13

  • 86 (2)
  • I Am Not Adriana nor Thy Wife
  • Massey, Anna
  • 1:48

  • 87 (2)
  • Dwell I But in the Suburbs of Your Good Pleasure?
  • Quayle, Anthony
  • 1:24

  • 88 (2)
  • Like to a Double Cherry
  • Raymond, Emily
  • :48

  • 89 (2)
  • Give Me That Man That Is Not Passion's Slave
  • Burton, Richard
  • 1:09

  • 90 (2)
  • To You, Antonio
  • :25

  • 91 (2)
  • His Good Report Should Have Been My Son
  • 1:13

  • 92 (2)
  • Call You Me Daughter?
  • Leighton, Margaret
  • :17

  • 93 (2)
  • I Am Wild in My Beholding
  • Scofield, Paul
  • :26

  • 94 (2)
  • You Gods, Look Down
  • Ashcroft, Peggy
  • :10

  • 95 (2)
  • I Think This Lady to Be My Child Cordelia
  • 2:09

  • 96 (2)
  • If by Your Art
  • Massey, Anna
  • :42

  • 97 (2)
  • I Know Not Seems
  • :40

  • 98 (2)
  • Grief Fills the Room Up of My Absent Child
  • Harris, Rosemary
  • 1:13

  • 99 (2)
  • O, That This Too Too Solid Flesh
  • Burton, Richard
  • 2:00

  • 100 (2)
  • Ah, My Young Princes
  • 1:44

  • 101 (3)
  • I Say We Will Have No More Marriages
  • 3:01

  • 102 (3)
  • All Is Lost; This Foul Egyptian Hath Betrayed Me
  • Quayle, Anthony
  • 1:27

  • 103 (3)
  • Thou Subtle, Perjur'd False Disloyal Man!
  • Dunham, Joanna
  • :31

  • 104 (3)
  • The Man That Hath No Music in Himself
  • Holm, Ian
  • :26

  • 105 (3)
  • Who Will Believe Thee, Isabel?
  • Gielgud, John
  • 1:07

  • 106 (3)
  • I Know How to Curse
  • Griffith, Hugh
  • :12

  • 107 (3)
  • Abhorred Slave
  • Redgrave, Michael
  • :37

  • 108 (3)
  • All the Infections That the Sun Sucks Up
  • Griffith, Hugh
  • :19

  • 109 (3)
  • I Would Thou Didst Itch from Head to Foot
  • Cusack, Cyril
  • 1:25

  • 110 (3)
  • How Long Is't Ago, Jack, Thou Savest Thine Own Knee?
  • :26

  • 111 (3)
  • What, My Dear Lady Disdain! Are You Yet Living?
  • 1:02

  • 112 (3)
  • Good Sister, Wrong Me Not
  • 1:49

  • 113 (3)
  • A Lunatic Lean-Witted Me Not
  • 2:41

  • 114 (3)
  • Stay, Dog, For Thou Shalt Hear Me
  • 1:07

  • 115 (3)
  • What's the Matter, You Dissentious Rogues
  • Burton, Richard
  • 1:01

  • 116 (3)
  • Signior Antonio...You Have Rated Me
  • Griffith, Hugh
  • 1:16

  • 117 (3)
  • O Goneril! You Are Not Worth the Dust
  • 1:00

  • 118 (3)
  • Hear, Nature, Hear Dear Goddess, Hear!
  • Scofield, Paul
  • :51

  • 119 (3)
  • Blow Winds and Crack Your Cheeks
  • Scofield, Paul
  • 1:01

  • 120 (3)
  • I Hate the Moor
  • Ferrer, Jose
  • 1:17

  • 121 (3)
  • Inch-Thick, Knee-Deep
  • Gielgud, John
  • 1:27

  • 122 (3)
  • I Had Been Happy
  • 3:05

  • 123 (3)
  • Draw Thy Tool!
  • 1:11

  • 124 (3)
  • I Am Fortune's Fool
  • 1:10

  • 125 (3)
  • Vengeance Is in My Heart
  • 1:25

  • 126 (3)
  • Out, Vile Jelly!
  • 3:53

  • 127 (3)
  • I Am Not in the Giving Vein Today
  • Barrymore, John
  • 1:24

  • 128 (3)
  • If Thy Name Tyrrel?
  • Barrymore, John
  • :38

  • 129 (3)
  • What Would You Undertake
  • 2:20

  • 130 (3)
  • Great Glamis!
  • 1:50

  • 131 (3)
  • If It Were Done When 'Tis Done
  • Welles, Orson
  • 1:33

  • 132 (3)
  • Is This a Dagger I See Before Me
  • Welles, Orson
  • 1:30

  • 133 (3)
  • I Have Been Studying
  • Gielgud, John
  • 5:10

  • 134 (3)
  • It Is the Cause
  • 6:17

  • 135 (3)
  • Now Might I Do It Pat
  • Lesser, Anton
  • 1:17

  • 136 (3)
  • O My Offense Is Rank
  • Drake, Alfred
  • 4:00

  • 137 (3)
  • Give Me Another Horse
  • Stephens, Robert
  • 3:28

  • 138 (3)
  • Give Me Your Pardon, Sir
  • Lesser, Anton
  • 1:05

  • 139 (3)
  • I'll Be Wise
  • Griffith, Hugh
  • :05
  • 140 (4)
  • Now the Hungry Lion Roars
  • Hughes, Ian
  • 1:07
  • 141 (4)
  • When Shall We Three Meet Again
  • :43
  • 142 (4)
  • So Foul and Fair a Day
  • Guinness, Alec
  • 3:31
  • 143 (4)
  • Double, Double Toil and Trouble
  • 1:44
  • 144 (4)
  • Thou Shall See Me at Philippi
  • 1:33
  • 145 (4)
  • O My Prophetic Soul!
  • 5:32
  • 146 (4)
  • Sweet Remembrancer
  • 2:09
  • 147 (4)
  • O Sleep, O Gentle Sleep
  • Andrews, Harry
  • 1:49
  • 148 (4)
  • Sleep No More
  • Guinness, Alec
  • :41
  • 149 (4)
  • I Have Not Slept
  • Quayle, Anthony
  • :31
  • 150 (4)
  • She Dreamt To-Night
  • Richardson, Ralph
  • :32
  • 151 (4)
  • What Was Your Dream?
  • 3:11
  • 152 (4)
  • When My Cue Comes, Call Me and I Will Answer
  • Mitchell, Warren
  • 1:33
  • 153 (4)
  • O, Then, I See Queen Mab Hath Been With You
  • 1:55
  • 154 (4)
  • I Fear, Too Early
  • Sheen, Michael
  • :31
  • 155 (4)
  • We Defy Augury
  • Lesser, Anton
  • :25
  • 156 (4)
  • I Haue Lived Long Enough
  • Guinness, Alec
  • :30
  • 157 (4)
  • We Have Heard the Chimes at Midnight
  • Quayle, Anthony
  • :19
  • 158 (4)
  • It Smells of Mortality
  • :11
  • 159 (4)
  • All That Lives Must Die
  • Herlie, Eileen
  • :21
  • 160 (4)
  • How Long Hast Thow Been a Grave-Maker?
  • 6:29
  • 161 (4)
  • Come Away, Come Away, Death
  • Rossington, Norman
  • 3:26
  • 162 (4)
  • Be Absolute for Death
  • Richardson, Ralph
  • :22
  • 163 (4)
  • If I Must Die
  • White, Tony
  • :08
  • 164 (4)
  • Of Comfort No Man Speak
  • Gielgud, John
  • 2:03
  • 165 (4)
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Barrymore, John
  • 2:04
  • 166 (4)
  • Nothing in His Life Became Him Like the Leaving It
  • :12
  • 167 (4)
  • Lay on MacDuff
  • Guiness, Alec
  • 1:49
  • 168 (4)
  • The Bloody Dog Is Dead
  • Stephens, Robert
  • 1:04
  • 169 (4)
  • O Harry Thou Hast Robbed Me of My Youth
  • 4:37
  • 170 (4)
  • Cut Me to Pieces
  • Burton, Richard
  • :55
  • 171 (4)
  • I Kill'd Not Thee With Half So Good a Will
  • Quayle, Anthony
  • 1:45
  • 172 (4)
  • And Smote Him, Thus
  • Robeson, Paul
  • 1:44
  • 173 (4)
  • Howl, Howl, Howl, Howl!
  • Scofield, Paul
  • 5:59
  • 174 (4)
  • The Rest Is Silence
  • Burton, Richard
  • 2:19
  • 175 (4)
  • I Am Dying, Egypy, Dying
  • 1:53
  • 176 (4)
  • I Have Immortal Longings in Me
  • Brown, Pamela
  • 3:09
  • 177 (4)
  • Falstaff If Dead
  • 1:04
  • 178 (4)
  • Ah, Dear Juliet, Why Are Thou Yet So Fair?
  • Sheen, Michael
  • 1:56
  • 179 (4)
  • Happy Dagger! This Is Thy Sheath
  • 1:33
  • 180 (4)
  • Fear No More the Heat O' the Sun
  • 1:33
  • 181 (4)
  • Our Revels Now Are Ended
  • Redgrave, Michael
  • :51
  • 182 (4)
  • Farewells: Little Helen Farewell/Farewell Master Farewell Farewell/And
  • 3:41
  • 183 (5)
  • Act I, Scene I
  • 11:39
  • 184 (5)
  • Act I, Scene I
  • 4:47
  • 185 (5)
  • Act I, Scene III
  • 5:45
  • 186 (5)
  • Act I, Scene IV
  • 4:51
  • 187 (5)
  • Act I, Scene V
  • 8:00
  • 188 (5)
  • Act II, Scene I
  • 3:32
  • 189 (5)
  • Act II, Scene II
  • 10:34
  • 190 (5)
  • Act II, Scene III
  • 5:35
  • 191 (5)
  • Act II, Scene IV
  • 8:24
  • 192 (5)
  • Act II, Scene V
  • 4:22
  • 193 (5)
  • Act II, Scene VI
  • 2:06
  • 194 (6)
  • Act III, Scene I
  • 8:27
  • 195 (6)
  • Act III, Scene II
  • 8:43
  • 196 (6)
  • Act III, Scene III
  • 8:43
  • 197 (6)
  • Act III, Scene IV
  • 1:37
  • 198 (6)
  • Act III, Scene V
  • 12:38
  • 199 (6)
  • Act IV, Scene I
  • 5:54
  • 200 (6)
  • Act IV, Scene II
  • 1:58
  • 201 (6)
  • Act IV, Scene III
  • 2:55
  • 202 (6)
  • Act IV, Scene IV
  • :16
  • 203 (6)
  • Act IV, Scene V
  • 6:04
  • 204 (6)
  • Act V, Scene I
  • 4:23
  • 205 (6)
  • Act V, Scene II
  • 1:02
  • 206 (6)
  • Act V, Scene III
  • 16:59

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