 Seven Ages An Anthology of Poetry with Music. |
| Review Date: July 10, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Marie D.Ryan, |
This is wonderful and i love listening to it.
Again it would be useful to actually hear segments.
sincerely
marie ryan |
Outstanding
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| Review Date: January 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Music Critic, Belmont, MA USA |
I have been playing these 2 cd's over and over in my car. What's not to love about hearing the best of the best British voices reciting excellent poetry? "Flander's Field", very moving. "The Bleedin' Sparrow" read by Michael Caine, laugh-out-loud funny. If you're a fan of Wilfred Owen poetry, you will not be disappointed. Trained voices, such as theirs, open up the beauty of each poem ten-fold.
I was hoping for a musical backdrop to the recitations, but the music only plays for a few moments at the beginning and end of each cd. A shame, because listening to the musical backdrop while Ben Whishaw, as he recited Keats in the movie "Bright Star", added a new dimension to those poems.
P.S. If you do love the poetry of Wilfred Owen, I recommend listening to Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem", as much of the text sung by the English-born tenor, is Owen. |
Poetry, Talent & Charity
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| Review Date: December 15, 2009 |
| Reviewer: annonymous, Buffalo, NY |
| A-List Professional Actors perform exquisitely a broad range of poetic readings, with intermittent music. A beautiful and fun anthology created to support a worthy cause. |
No whispering
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| Review Date: July 24, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Reilly Capps, Aurora, Colo. |
Love recorded poetry, and here John Cleese and Michael Caine are great, and selection of poems brought me lots of new stuff I loved. "Bored." The one about the mermaid. Wow. But whoever decided to whisper the speech from Shakespeare needs to be put on the rack. "Stage whisper" means "so the audience can hear." Even with my iPod cranked up all the way, I got zip. It was affected and annoying.
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Beautiful
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| Review Date: April 14, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Signee Swartley, Bakersfield, CA USA |
| I love the 2 CD set. There are poems which you understand now and some later depending on life experience, I enjoy listening and experiencing these lovely poems by the great poets of all time read by the greatest actors and orators of all time. I really recommend this compilation. |
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