Contents:
Disc 1. Romeo and Juliet, op. 64. Dance of the knights / Prokofiev (the Cleveland Orchestra ; Lorin Maazel, conductor)
Romeo and Juliet. Love theme / Tchaikovsky (Wiener Philharmoniker ; Herbert von Karajan, 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 / 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 (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)
Fear no more the heat of the sun, op. 18, no. 3 / Finzi (Amy Dickson, saxophone ; Aurora Orchestra ; Nicholas Collon, conductor)
Disc 2. Trilus & 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)
