RADA Benefit Concert and Album: When Love Speaks (2002)
Michael coordinated a collection of William Shakespeare’s sonnets read by great English actors including Alan Rickman, John Hurt, Ralph Fiennes, and Joe Fiennes, and with original songs based on the sonnets, written by Michael Kamen, Annie Lennox and Brian Ferry and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Performed at the Old Vic Theatre, London, 11th February 2002
Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Co- & Executive Producer, Liner Notes, Performer: Piano
Album, Warner Classics
LINER NOTES
Executive Producer: Michael Kamen
Produced by Joy Gelardi
Co-produced by Alan Rickman and James Brett
Thanks to the BBC for John Gielgud's recording
All other actors' recordings produced by Joy Gelardi
All actors were recorded by Antony Fisher at Waveeffect Studios, London (except tracks 3, 4, 39, 48) - special thanks to Antony and to Eliot Cohen
Thanks to Dave Chilton at Essential Music for Alan Rickman's recording, Voice Box Studios, Los Angeles for Martin Jarvis' recording and Chris Downes at Lynx Video Ltd for Robert Lindsay's recording
Michael Kamen would like to thank Richard Lyttelton, Lord Attenborough, Alan Rickman, Joy Gelardi, Robert Urband, James Brett, Tim Atack,
Colette at Abbey Road, Lola at Sarm, Nyree at Sony Studios, Alison at Air, Sally Zito, Deborah Jones, Vicky Corley Smith and IMG Artists
Project co-ordinator for RADA: Ellis Jones, Vice Principal
For details of all RADA courses visit www.rada.org
RADA wishes to thank especially the one actor on this recording who did not train with the Academy: Joseph Fiennes, famed for his fine screen performance in Shakespeare in Love
The recording of Sonnet no. 61 is dedicated to the late Dame Dorothy Tutin
Music pre-mastered by Pete Cobbin at Abbey Road
Album mastered by Tony Bridge at Sony Music Studios, London
All artwork by Paul Nelson. Layout and design by Nomad Design
Live with me and be my love
Words by William Shakespeare
Music by Annie Lennox
BMG Music Publishing Ltd
Performed and produced by Annie Lennox
Engineered by Ned Douglas
Annie Lennox appears by courtesy of BMG Ariola München GmbH
Produced by Rufus Wainwright and Michel Pepin
Engineered by Don Murnaghan and Michel Pepin
Mixed by Michel Pepin and Don Murnaghan
Recorded at Productions Frissons Studio, Montreal
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
Words by William Shakespeare
Music by Rufus Wainwright
Ⓒ2001 Rock And Roll Credit Card Music/Dreamworks Songs (ASCAP) Keb' Mo' appears by courtesy of Okch/Epic Records
Performed by Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright, vocal and piano
Kate McGarrigle, banjo
Anna McGarrigle, accordion
Joel Zinkin, violin
Michel Pepin, bass, guitar
Rufus Wainwright appears by courtesy of Dreamworks Records
Come again: sweet love doth now invite
Words and music by John Dowland
Performed by John Potter, tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
John Surman, soprano saxophone
Maya Homburger, baroque violin
Barry Guy, double-bass
Produced by Manfred Eicher
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done.
Words by William Shakespeare
Music by Keb' Mo
Mo' Than Jus' Music/BMI
From the album In Darkness Let Me Dwell,
ECM Records New Series 1697
Produced, performed and arranged by Keb' Mo
Engineered by Mark Johnson
Mixed by Keb' Mo' and Mark Johnson
Recorded at Stu Stu Studio, Santa Monica, California
Kevin Moore 2, shaker
Thanks to Alexis Alexiades, John Boncimino, Barbara Gaines, Michael Kamen, Robert Urband
The quality of mercy is not strained
Words by William Shakespeare
Music by Des'ree Weekes and Prince Sampson
Sony Music Publishing
Performed by Des'ree
Produced by Des'ree and Prince Sampson
Strings arranged by Michael Kamen and recorded by Geoff Foster at Air Lyndhurst Studios, London
Mixed by Tim Atack, James Brett and Ricky Graham
Des'ree appears by courtesy of Sony Music Worldwide
The Willow Song
Words by William Shakespeare
Music by Michael Kamen
Published by K-Man Corp./Songs/ATV Music LLC (BMI)
Performed by Barbara Bonney, soprano
Michael Kamen, piano
Charys Green, clarinet
Caroline Dale, cello
Gillian Tingay, harp
Recorded and mixed by Steve McLaughlin and lain Roberton at Sarm West, London
Barbara Bonney appears by courtesy of the Decca Music Group Limited
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Words by William Shakespeare
Music by Joseph Shabalala and Michael Kamen
Arranged by Joseph Shabalala
Published by Gallo Music Publishers/ K-Man Corp./Songs/ATV Music LLC (BMI)
Performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Produced by Joseph Shabalala
Engineered by Jon Picciano
Recorded at Mambazo Studios, Kloof, South Africa
Ladysmith Black Mambazo appear by courtesy of Gallo Music International
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Words by William Shakespeare
Music by Michael Kamen
Published by K-Man Corp./Songs/ATV Music LLC (BMI)
Performed by Bryan Ferry
London Metropolitan Orchestra arranged and conducted by Michael Kamen
Produced by Bryan Ferry and Robin Trower
Engineered by Steve McLaughlin and Brian Tench
Mixed by Ash Howes
Lutenist - Matthew Wadsworth
Recorded by lain Roberton and James Brett at Sarm West, London
London Metropolitan Orchestra contracted by Andrew Brown
This compilation ℗ 2002 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
©2002 Parlophone Records Limited, A Warner Music Group Company,
TRACKLIST
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. Siân 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)