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Twelfth Night, Act I Scene 1: If music be the food of love, play on... (Shakespeare) (more info)
Michael Sheen, reader


1. Twelfth Night, Act I Scene 1: If music be the food of love, play on... (Shakespeare) - 2:28


Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 2: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? (Shakespeare) (more info)
Michael Sheen, reader


2. Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 2: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? (Shakespeare) - 2:42


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, "Sonnet XVIII" (Shakespeare) (more info)
Michael Sheen, reader


3. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, "Sonnet XVIII" (Shakespeare) - 2:04


Doctor Faustus: The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships (Marlowe) (more info)
Christopher Marlowe,
Michael Sheen, reader


4. Doctor Faustus: The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships (Marlowe) - 1:59


The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Marlowe) (more info)
Christopher Marlowe,
Michael Sheen, reader


5. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Marlowe) - 2:05


Red, Red Rose (Burns) (more info)
Robert Burns,
Michael Sheen, reader


6. Red, Red Rose (Burns) - 2:00


The Rigs O' Barley (Burns) (more info)
Robert Burns,
Michael Sheen, reader


7. The Rigs O' Barley (Burns) - 2:05


La boheme (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Eugene Goossens Orchestra Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Cesare Sodero Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Gerhard Steeger Rudolf Kempe Alberto Erede Victor Trucco Izler Solomon Giuseppe Antonicelli Walter Goehr Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Umberto Berrettoni Renato Cellini Fritz Zweig Frieder Weissmann Jacques Lacombe Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari Robert Heger Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Thomas Beecham Heribert Beissel Vincenzo Bellezza Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Gerhard Wiesenhutter Eugene Szenkar
Manon Feubel, soprano
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Antoine Belanger, tenor
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Gianna Corbisiero, soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Lisa Otto, soprano
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Tatiana Menotti, mezzo-soprano
Afro Poli, baritone
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Leonard Warren, baritone
Erna Berger, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Lucrezia Bori, soprano
Aurora Rettore, soprano
Robert Easton, bass
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Hilde Gueden, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Hjordis Schymberg, soprano
Carlo Forti, bass
Fabio Previati, baritone
Carmen Gonzales, soprano
Ivan Urbas, bass
Boaz Senator, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Nicola Moscona, bass
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Giacinto Prandelli, tenor
Giovanni Inghilleri, baritone
Fernando Corena, baritone
Piero De Palma, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Ildebrando Santafe, bass
Patrice Munsel, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Franco Ricciardi,
William Dazeley, baritone
Andrew Shore, bass
Robert Merrill, baritone
Dora Labbette,
Stella Andreva,
Robert Alva,
John Reardon, baritone
Giorgio Tozzi,
Lucine Amara,
William Nahr,
Thomas Powell,
George del Monte,
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Jiri Sulzenko, bass
Richard Novak, bass
Ladislav Hallon, tenor
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Marie McLaughlin, soprano
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Heddle Nash, tenor
Browning Mummery, tenor
Frederic Collier, bass
Edouard Cotreuil, bass
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Diana Soviero, soprano
Edward Johnson, tenor
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Carmen Dragon,
Raffaele Arie, bass
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Cynthia Haymon, soprano
Alastair Miles, bass
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Manuel Spatafora, baritone
Carlo Badioli, bass
Anna Moffo, soprano
Eraldo Coda, bass
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Jonathon Welch, tenor
Agnieszka Piass, soprano
John Brownlee, baritone
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Recording date: 12 December 1942


8. La boheme, Act I: Che gelida manina - 4:23


David Copperfield: 'I don't think I had any definite idea of where Dora came from...' (Dickens) (more info)
Charles Dickens,
Michael Sheen, reader


9. David Copperfield: 'I don't think I had any definite idea of where Dora came from...' (Dickens) - 2:13


Persuasion: 'I have loved none but you...' (Austen) (more info)
Jane Austen,
Michael Sheen, reader


10. Persuasion: 'I have loved none but you...' (Austen) - 3:34


Jane Eyre: 'I have for the first time found what I can truly love...' (Charlotte Bronte) (more info)
Charlotte Bronte,
Michael Sheen, reader


11. Jane Eyre: 'I have for the first time found what I can truly love...' (Charlotte Bronte) - 2:30


Far from the Madding Crowd: 'Such women as you a hundred men always covet' (Hardy) (more info)
Thomas Hardy,
Michael Sheen, reader


12. Far from the Madding Crowd: 'Such women as you a hundred men always covet' (Hardy) - 2:42


Perfect Woman (Wordsworth) (more info)
William Wordsworth,
Michael Sheen, reader


13. Perfect Woman (Wordsworth) - 2:52


Love (more info)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Michael Sheen, reader
Benjamin Soames, reader


14. Love (Coleridge) - 1:32


Tosca (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra MGM Studio Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Rome Teatro Reale Opera Orchestra Josef Pasternack Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Victor De Sabata Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Gerhard Lenssen Josef A. Pasternack Oliviero De Fabritiis Gaetano Merola Markus Lehtinen Gerhard Steeger Alberto Erede Lorenzo Molajoli Walter B. Rogers Franco Ghione Frieder Weissmann Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Charles Gerhardt Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Jukka-Pekka Saraste Richard Bradshaw Constantine Orbelian Giacomo Spadoni David Parry Andrew Litton Kurt Striegler Ivan Anguelov Max Rudolf
Ian Caddy, baritone
Nellie Melba, soprano
Lina Bruna-Rasa, soprano
David Sellers, boy soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Dora Zschille, soprano
Gregory Yurisich, baritone
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Richard Tauber, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano
Miroslav Dvorsky, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Karita Mattila, soprano
Armando Borgioli, baritone
Ernesto Dominici, bass-baritone
Silvano Carroli, baritone
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Hans Hopf, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Studio pianist, piano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Jan Durco, baritone
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Dino Fedri,
Andrew Shore, bass
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Giorgio Lamberti, tenor
Andrea Piccinni, bass
Jozef Spacek, baritone
Dario Caselli, bass
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, bass
Angelo Mercuriali, tenor
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Franco Calabrese, bass
Alvaro Cordova, tenor
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Nelly Miricioiu, soprano
Jane Eaglen, soprano
Hui He, soprano
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Ljuba Welitsch, soprano
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Raimo Sirkia, tenor
Recording date: 31 January 1921


15. Tosca, Act III: E lucevan le stelle - 3:06


He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (Yeats) (more info)
W.B. Yeats,
Michael Sheen, reader


16. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (Yeats) - 0:33


Summer Night (Tennyson) (more info)
Alfred Tennyson,
Michael Sheen, reader


17. Summer Night (Tennyson) - 2:47


Confessions: 'Friendship, confidence, intimacy, sympathy of soul...' (Rousseau) (more info)
Composed by: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Michael Sheen, reader


18. Confessions: 'Friendship, confidence, intimacy, sympathy of soul...' (Rousseau) - 2:30


Letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine (more info)
Napoleon Bonaparte,
Michael Sheen, reader


19. Letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine - 2:36


Letters from Karl Marx to his wife Jenny (more info)
Karl Marx,
Michael Sheen, reader


20. Letters from Karl Marx to his wife Jenny - 2:17


My Heart's Friend (Shoshone Love Song) (more info)
Composed by: Anonymous
Michael Sheen, reader


21. My Heart's Friend (Shoshone Love Song) - 0:56


Letter from Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet (more info)
Gustave Flaubert,
Michael Sheen, reader


22. Letter from Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet - 3:40


Fidelity (D.H. Lawrence) (more info)
David Herbert Richards Lawrence,
Michael Sheen, reader


23. Fidelity (D.H. Lawrence) - 5:03


Letter From Rupert Brooke To Katherine Cox (more info)
Rupert Brooke,
Michael Sheen, reader


24. Letter From Rupert Brooke To Katherine Cox - 4:48


Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Milan Symphony Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Eugene Goossens Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Enrico Caruso Georges Bizet
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Argeo Quadri Gilles Bellemare Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Johannes Wildner Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Leo Blech Hanns-Martin Schneidt
Rina Gigli, soprano
Phillip Addis, baritone
Igor Morozov, baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Erna Berger, soprano
Robert Merrill, baritone
Janez Lotric, tenor
Bruno Lazzaretti,
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone
Michael Schade, tenor
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 4 July 1931


25. Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers), Act 1: Au fond du temple saint - 5:49


She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron) (more info)
Michael Sheen, reader


26. She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron) - 3:51


As You Are Woman (Graves) (more info)
Robert Graves,
Michael Sheen, reader


27. As You Are Woman (Graves) - 1:07

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