Various Artists - Words for You (26 tracks)

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Track Listings (26) - Disc #1
1. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 (King James Version) Attributed to King Solomon (read by Geoffrey Palmer) / Music: Vivaldi
2. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (read by Joanna Lumley) / Music: Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.8
3. Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning (read by Geoffrey Palmer) / Music: Dvorak - Symphony
4. Friendship by Elizabeth Jennings (read by Alison Steadman) / Music: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 - 2nd
5. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns (read by Brian Cox) / Music: Austin Ince & Frankie Hepburn - Colonel
6. I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth (read by Honor Blackman) / Music: Tchaikovsky -
7. On The Balcony by D.H. Lawrence (read by Anthony Head) / Music: Grieg - Last Spring (excerpt)
8. Business Girls by John Betjeman (read by Joanna Lumley) / Music: Business Girls by John Betjeman / Music:
9. To Autumn by John Keats (read by Ben Whishaw) / Music: Borodin - Symphony No.2 - 3rd Movement (excerpt)
10. Sonnets From The Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (read by Lindsay Duncan) / Music: Mozart -
11. Mozart - Symphony No.50 - 3rd Movement (excerpt) (read by Martin Shaw) / Music: Verdi - La Forza Del
12. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep by Mary Frye (read by Miriam Margolyes) / Music: Tchaikovosky -
13. Diary Of A Church Mouse by John Betjeman (read by Martin Shaw) / Music: Bach - Sleepers Awake (excerpt)
14. Come Walk With Me by Emily Bront (read by Samantha Morton) / Music: Dvorak - Waltz No.1 from Opus 54
15. The Lady Of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tenyson (read by Brian Cox) / Music: Stephen Darrell Smith & Dan Smith -
16. One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings (read by Honor Blackman) / Music: One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings
17. He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by W.B. Yeats (read by Lennie James) / Music: Mahler - Symphony
18. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (read by Lennie James) / Music: Mahler - Symphony No.3 - 6th
19. Stop All The Clocks by W.H. Auden (read by Lindsay Duncan) / Music: Mahler - Symphony No.1 - 3rd
20. Adlestrop by Edward Thomas (read by Geoffrey Palmer) / Music: Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
21. When We Two Parted by Lord Byron (read by Brian Cox) / Music: Tchaikovosky - Symphony No.5 - 2nd
22. Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen (read by Ben Whishaw) / Music: Beethoven - Symphony No.7 - 2nd
23. She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron (read by Martin Shaw) / Music: Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No.2 - 4th
24. Rock Me To Sleep by Elizabeth Akers Allen (read by Alison Steadman) / Music: Schubert - Rosamunde
25. Remember by Christina Rossetti (read by Anthony Head) / Music: Sor - Allegretto (excerpt)
26. Last Post by Carol Ann Duffy (read by Samantha Morton) / Music: Satie - Gymnopedie No.3 (excerpt)

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2009 collection featuring 27 of the greatest poems of all time, read by 12 of the best voices in British acting and set to the greatest classical music ever composed. The 27 poems featured on Words For You have been recorded by Joanna Lumley, Lindsay Duncan, Geoffrey Palmer, Honor Blackman, Brian Cox, Alison Steadman, Martin Shaw, Miriam Margolyes, Lennie James, Samantha Morton, Anthony Head and Ben Whishaw. Island.

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