Artist: William Shakespeare

Title: Sonnets

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Release Date: 2014

Label: Naxos

UPC: 9789626341452

Genre: Books on Tape/Cd

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Opening Music
2. Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
3. Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
4. Sonnet 3: Look in Thy Glass and Tell the Face Thou Viewest
5. Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
6. Sonnet 5: Those Hours That with Gentle Work Did Frame
7. Sonnet 6: Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface
8. Sonnet 7: Lo in the Orient When the Gracious Light
9. Sonnet 8: Music to Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?
10. Musical Interlude
11. Sonnet 9: Is It for Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye
12. Sonnet 10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bear'st Love to Any
13. Sonnet 11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Grow'st
14. Sonnet 12: When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time
15. Sonnet 13: O That You Were Your Self! But, Love, You Are
16. Sonnet 14: Not from the Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck
17. Sonnet 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows
18. Sonnet 16: But Wherefore Do Not You a Mightier Way
19. Sonnet 17: Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come
20. Musical Interlude
21. Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
22. Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou a Lion's Paws
23. Sonnet 20: A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted
24. Sonnet 21: So Is It Not with Me As with That Muse
25. Sonnet 22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
26. Sonnet 23: As An Umperfect Actor on the Stage
27. Sonnet 24: Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Stelled
28. Musical Interlude
29. Sonnet 25: Let Those Who Are in Favour with Their Stars
30. Sonnet 26: Lord of My Love, to Whom in Vassalage
31. Sonnet 27: Weary with Toil, I Haste Me to My Bed
32. Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight
33. Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
34. Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
35. Sonnet 31: Thy Bosom Is Endear D with All Hearts
36. Sonnet 32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
37. Musical Interlude
38. Sonnet 33: Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen
39. Sonnet 34: Why Didst Thou Promise Such a Beauteous Day
40. Sonnet 35: No More Be Grieved at That Which Thou Hast Done
41. Sonnet 36: Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain
42. Sonnet 37: As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight
43. Sonnet 38: How Can My Muse Want Subject to Invent
44. Sonnet 39: O How Thy Worth with Manners May I Sing
45. Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All
46. Sonnet 41: Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits
47. Sonnet 42: That Thou Hast Her, It Is Not All My Grief
48. Musical Interlude
49. Sonnet 43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See
50. Sonnet 44: If the Dull Substance of My Flesh Were Thought
51. Sonnet 45: The Other Two, Slight Air and Purging Fire
52. Sonnet 46: Mine Eye and Heart Are at a Mortal War
53. Sonnet 47: Betwixt Mine Eye and Heart a League Is Took
54. Sonnet 48: How Careful Was I, When I Took My Way
55. Sonnet 49: Against That Time (If Ever That Time Come)
56. Sonnet 50: How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way
57. Sonnet 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse the Slow Offence
58. Musical Interlude
59. Sonnet 52: So Am I As the Rich Whose Bless D Key
60. Sonnet 53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
61. Sonnet 54: O How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem
62. Sonnet 55: Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments
63. Sonnet 56: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force, Be It Not Said
64. Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend
65. Sonnet 58: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave
66. Musical Interlude

DISC 2:
1. Musical Interlude
2. Sonnet 59: If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is
3. Sonnet 60: Like As the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore
4. Sonnet 61: Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open
5. Sonnet 62: Sin of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye
6. Sonnet 63: Against My Love Shall Be As I Am Now
7. Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced
8. Sonnet 65: Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
9. Musical Interlude
10. Sonnet 66: Tired with All These, for Restful Death I Cry
11. Sonnet 67: Ah Wherefore with Infection Should He Live
12. Sonnet 68: Thus Is His Cheek the Map of Days Outworn
13. Sonnet 69: Those Parts of Thee That the World's Eye Doth View
14. Sonnet 70: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect
15. Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead
16. Sonnet 72: O Lest the World Should Task You to Recite
17. Musical Interlude
18. Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold
19. Sonnet 74: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest
20. Sonnet 75: So Are You to My Thoughts As Food to Life
21. Sonnet 76: Why Is My Verse So Barren of New Pride?
22. Sonnet 77: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear
23. Musical Interlude
24. Sonnet 78: So Oft Have I Invoked Thee for My Muse
25. Sonnet 79: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid
26. Sonnet 80: O How I Faint When I of You Do Write
27. Sonnet 81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph to Make
28. Sonnet 82: I Grant Thou Wert Not Married to My Muse
29. Sonnet 83: I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need
30. Sonnet 84: Who Is It That Says Most Which Can Say More
31. Sonnet 85: My Tongue-Tied Muse in Manners Holds Her Still
32. Sonnet 86: Was It the Proud Full Sail of His Great Verse
33. Musical Interlude
34. Sonnet 87: Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing
35. Sonnet 88: When Thou Shalt Be Disposed to Set Me Light
36. Sonnet 89: Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me for Some Fault
37. Sonnet 90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt, If Ever, Now
38. Sonnet 91: Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their Skill
39. Sonnet 92: But Do Thy Worst to Steal Thyself Away
40. Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True
41. Sonnet 94: They That Have Pow'r to Hurt, and Will Do None
42. Sonnet 95: How Sweet and Lovely Dost Thou Make the Shame
43. Sonnet 96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness
44. Musical Interlude
45. Sonnet 97: How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been
46. Sonnet 98: From You Have I Seen Absent in the Spring
47. Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide
48. Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forget'st So Long
49. Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends
50. Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strength'ned, Though More Weak in Seeming
51. Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth
52. Sonnet 104: To Me Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old
53. Musical Interlude
54. Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry
55. Sonnet 106: When in the Cronicle of Wasted Time
56. Sonnet 107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul
57. Sonnet 108: What's in the Brain That Ink My Character
58. Sonnet 109: O Never Say That I Was False of Heart
59. Sonnet 110: Alas 'Tis True, I Have Gone Here and There
60. Sonnet 111: O for My Sake Do You with Fortune Chide
61. Sonnet 112: Your Love and Pity Doth TH' Impression Fill
62. Musical Interlude

DISC 3:
1. Musical Interlude
2. Sonnet 113: Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is in My Mind
3. Sonnet 114: Or Whether Doth My Mind Being Crowned with You
4. Sonnet 115: Those Lines That I Before Have Writ Do Lie
5. Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
6. Sonnet 117: Accuse Me Thus: That I Have Scanted All
7. Sonnet 118: Like As to Make Our Appetites More Keen
8. Sonnet 119: What Potions Have I Drunk of Sirens Tears
9. Sonnet 120: That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now
10. Sonnet 121: 'Tis Better to Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed
11. Musical Interlude
12. Sonnet 122: Thy Gift, Thy Tables, Are Within My Brain
13. Sonnet 123: No! Time, Thou Shalt Not Boast That I Do Change
14. Sonnet 124: If My Dear Love Were But the Child of State
15. Sonnet 125: Were't Aught to Me I Bore the Canopy
16. Sonnet 126: O Thou My Lovely Boy, Who in Thy Power
17. Musical Interlude
18. Sonnet 127: In the Old Age Black Was Not Counted Fair
19. Sonnet 128: How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st
20. Sonnet 129: TH' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame
21. Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
22. Sonnet 131: Thou Art As Tyrannous, So As Thou Art
23. Sonnet 132: Thine Eyes I Love, and They, As Pitying Me
24. Sonnet 133: Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart to Groan
25. Musical Interlude
26. Sonnet 134: So Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine
27. Sonnet 135: Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will
28. Sonnet 136: If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come So Near
29. Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool, Love, What Dost Thou to Mine Eyes
30. Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth
31. Sonnet 139: O Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong
32. Sonnet 140: Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel, Do Not Press
33. Musical Interlude
34. Sonnet 141: In Faith, I Do Not Love Thee with Mine Eyes
35. Sonnet 142: Love Is My Sin, and Thy Dear Virtue Hate
36. Sonnet 143: Lo, As a Careful Huswife Runs to Catch
37. Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, of Comfort and Despair
38. Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make
39. Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth
40. Sonnet 147: My Love Is As a Fever, Longing Still
41. Musical Interlude
42. Sonnet 148: O Me! What Eyes Hath Love Put in My Head
43. Sonnet 149: Canst Thou, O Cruel, Say I Love Thee Not
44. Sonnet 150: O from What Pow'r Hast Thou This Pow'rful Might
45. Sonnet 151: Love Is Too Young to Know What Conscience Is
46. Sonnet 152: In Loving Thee Thou Know'st I Am Forsworn
47. Sonnet 153: Cupid Laid By His Brand and Fell Asleep
48. Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep
49. Closing Music

Everyone knows something of Shakespeare' sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of may' or 'remembrance of things past' 'the marriage of minds'.