Shakespeare
Sonnet No 52: So am I as the rich whose blessed key
Read by Michael Hurst. Music details: Dowland: Langton's Galliard (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Shakespeare's 44th sonnet is the first of two which use the idea of the four elements - in this case, earth and water. Read by John Callen. Music details: John Johnson: Dump (Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 50: How heavy do I journey on my way
The first of another linked pair of sonnets. Here Shakespeare introduces the image of a horse, carrying its bearer away from the loved one. Read by Hewitt Humphrey. Music details: Tobias Hume… Audio
Sonnet No 49: Against that time, if ever that time came
Read Charles Pierard. Music details: Dowland: Sir John Langton's Pavan (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
Sonnet No 48: How careful was I when I took my way
Read by Jennifer Ward-Leyland. Music details: Dowland: Sir Henry Guilforde, his Almain (Naxos 8.570449). Audio
Sonnet No 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
Read by Susan Curnow. Music details: Dowland: The Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Julia from ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ by Sasha Delamere
Julia's Monologue from Act I, Scene II of 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. Performed by Sasha Delamere. Original Air Date: Sunday 14th September 2014. Audio
Launce from ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ by Jeffrey Thomas
Launce Monologue from Act II, Scene III of 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. Performed by Jeffrey Thomas. Audio
Sonnet No 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
Shakespeare's forty-sixth sonnet, the first of two poems on the war and subsequent peace between "heart" and "eye".Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: Dowland: Mrs White's Nothing (Naxos… Audio
Sonnet No 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
Shakespeare's 44th sonnet is the first of two which use the idea of the four elements - in this case, earth and water. Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne Music details: Dowland-Dowland's Tears (I saw my lady… Audio
Sonnet No 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
Read Stuart Devenie. Music details: Tobias Hume-The Duke of Holstone's Almain (AliaVox AV 9837) Audio
Sonnet No 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
Read by George Henare. Music details: Dowland-Sir Robert Sidney, his Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Antonio Ferrabosco-Fantasia (Virgin Classics 91216). Audio
Sonnet No 39: Oh how thy worth with manners may I sing
Read by Elizabeth McRae Music details: Dowland-Mrs Nichols' Almain (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent
Read by Charlotte Graham [Topics] music, arts Music details: John Johnson-Galliard to the Delight Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) Audio
Sonnet No 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
Read by Michael Hurst. Music details- Dowland: Pavana Johan Douland (Naxos 8.570449) Audio
Sonnet No 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
Read by Susan Curnow. Music details- Peter Philips: Pavan (Virgin Classics 91216) Audio
Sonnet No 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
Read by John Callen.
Music details - Dowland: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day?
Read by Elric Hooper. Music details- Dowland: Lachrimae (alternative version) (Naxos 8.557862) Audio
