disc 1. Music inspired by Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, op. 64. Dance of the knights / Prokofiev (the Cleveland Orchestra ; Lorin Maazel, conductor) --
Fear no more the heat of the sun, op. 18, no. 3 / Finzi (Amy Dickson, saxophone ; Aurora Orchestra ; Nicholas Collon, conductor) --
Roméo et Juliette. Ah, je veux vivre / Gounod (Renée Fleming, soprano ; London Philharmonic Orchestra ; Charles Mackerras, conductor) --
Theme from Romeo & Juliet : A time for us / Nino Rota ; arranged by Andre Rieu (Andre Rieu, violin) --
A midsummer night's dream, op. 61. Scherzo / Mendelssohn (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande ; Ernest Ansermet, conductor) --
The fairy queen. O let me weep, for ever weep / Purcell (English Chamber Orchestra ; Benjamin Britten, conductor) --
Falstaff. Falstaff! Olà! Sir John Falstaff! / Verdi (Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone ; Berliner Philharmoniker ; Claudio Abbado, conductor) --
Romeo & Juliet. Balcony scene / Armstrong (Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Prague ; Paul Bateman, conductor) --
Otello. Ave Maria, piena di grazia / Verdi (Renée Fleming, soprano ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Georg Solti, conductor) --
Let us garlands bring. Come away, come away, death / Finzi (Bryn Terfel, bass baritone ; Malcolm Martineau, piano) --
Macbeth. Coro di profughi scozzesi, "Patria oppressa" / Verdi (Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Georg Solti, conductor) --
Suite from Henry V. Touch her soft lips and part / Walton ; arranged by Muir Mathieson (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Litton, conductor) --
A midsummer night's dream, op. 61. Wedding march / Mendelssohn (Peter Hurford, organ) --
Béatrice et Bénédict. Vous soupirez, madame? ; Nuit paisible et sereine! / Berlioz (London Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor) --
Three Shakespeare songs / Vaughan Williams (The Choir of King's College, Cambridge ; Sir David Willcocks, conductor) --
Romeo and Juliet. Love theme / Tchaikovsky (Wiener Philharmoniker ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor).
disc 2. Shakespeare in spoken word. Troilus & Cressida. The prologue (Paul Hardwick) --
Twelfth night. Orsino discusses his love for Olivia (Derek Godfrey, Dorothy Tutin) --
The taming of the shrew. Katherine's advice to women (Peggy Ashcroft) --
Much ado about nothing. Benedict confesses his love (Christopher Plummer, Geraldine McEwan) --
Hamlet. To be or not to be (Ian Bannen) --
As you like it. All the world's a stage (Max Adrian) --
Romeo and Juliet. Juliet impatiently awaits Romeo (Dorothy Tutin) --
Othello. Othello tells how he won Desdemona's love (Sir John Gielgud) --
As you like it. Epilogue (Vanessa Redgrave) --
Richard III. King Richard gives way to despair (Richard Pasco) --
Julius Caesar. Antony addresses the crowd after Caesar's assassination (Richard Johnson) --
Macbeth. Macbeth hears of his wife's death (Tony Church, Paul Whitworth, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Pippa Guard, Richard Pasco) --
Sonnet 18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (Richard Pasco) --
Sonnet 73, That time of year thou may'st in me behold (Tony Church) --
Sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Richard Johnson) --
King Lear. Lear and his fool on the heath (Donald Sinden, Paul Whitworth) --
Antony & Cleopatra. Antony dies in the arms of Cleopatra (Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Tony Church, Pippa Guard) --
The tempest. Prospero renounces his magic powers (Donald Sinden, Barbara Leigh-Hunt).
