RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: TAKE ALL MY LOVES = 9 SHAKESPEARE SONNETS ON MUSIC-ALBUM

Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, composer Rufus Wainwright announced a new album: Take All My Loves, with the texts of 9 Shakespeare Sonnets.

The album is a collection of original compositions accompanied by beloved texts by the most performed playwright in the world: William Shakespeare. Rufus Wainwright has collaborated with some of the most revered actors of our day to record spoken word versions of each of these 9 Sonnets, including Helena Bonham Carter, Siân Phillips, Peter Eyre, Carrie Fisher, Inge Keller and William Shatner.

Take All My Loves – 9 Shakespeare Sonnets by Rufus Wainwright
Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

1. “Sonnet 43” (featuring Siân Phillips)
2. “When Most I Wink (Sonnet 43)” (featuring Anna Prohaska)
3. “Take All My Loves (Sonnet 40)” (featuring Marius de Vries)
4. “Sonnet 20” (featuring Frally Hynes)
5. “A Woman’s Face (Sonnet 20)” (featuring Anna Prohaska)
6. “For Shame (Sonnet 10)” (featuring Anna Prohaska)
7. “Sonnet 10” (featuring Peter Eyre)
8. “Unperfect Actor (Sonnet 23)” (featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Martha Wainwright, and Fiora Cutler)
9. “Sonnet 29” (featuring Carrie Fisher)
10. “When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes (Sonnet 29)” (featuring Florence Welch and Ben de Vries)
11. “Sonnet 129” (featuring William Shatner)
12. “Th’Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame (Sonnet 129)” (featuring Anna Prohaska)
13. “All dessen müd (Sonnet 66)” (featuring Christopher Nell and Jürgen Holtz)
14. “A Woman’s Face – Reprise (Sonnet 20)”
15. “Sonnet 87” (featuring Inge Keller)
16. “Farewell (Sonnet 87)” (featuring Anna Prohaska)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 400
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