Matthew Crawford
Sonnet No 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
That's the last of the "procreation sonnets", the seventeenth in the set, in which Shakespeare exhorted "the fair youth" to leave an heir. From here, the sonnets start to take a romantic hue - you'll… Audio
Sonnet No 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Read by Jennifer Ward-Lealand Audio
Sonnet No 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
Read by Bryan Crump. Music details: Hume: An Answere (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 13: O that you were yourself, but love you are
Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Gagliarda (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
Read by Hewitt Humphrey. Music details: J Johnson: La Vecchia Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 11: As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st
Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Dowland: The Battle Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 10: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any
Read by Sonia Yee. Music details: R Johnson: Pavan Harmonia (Mundi 907257) Audio
Sonnet No 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye?
Read by Michael Hurst. Music details: Dowland: Pavan "Solus sine sola" (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Winter's Jump (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 7: Lo in the orient when the gracious light
Read by Prue Langbein. This is one of the so-called "procreation sonnets", the first seventeen in the set in which the poet urges "the fair youth" to give himself an heir. Music Details: Dowland… Audio
Sonnet No 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Read by Stuart Devenie. Audio
Sonnet No 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne. Audio
Curtain Raiser: Berg - Violin Concerto
This work is subtitled 'To the Memory of an Angel'. Matthew Crawford explains the story behind the dedication. Audio
