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Words For You – The Next Chapter
November 15, 2010
· Hip-O Records
· 53 minutes
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· Literature: William Allingham, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Carver, Samuel Taylor Coleridg, Emily Dickinson, Khalil Gibran, Thomas Hood, Jenny Joseph, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Penelope Shuttle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats
Following the unexpected global success of Words For You, a unique album of classic poems, read by British actors and set to classical music, this follow-up album features a host of both British and Hollywood actors, including Meryl Streep, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jim Broadbent, James Earl Jones, Helena Bonham Carter, Terrence Stamp and Rupert Penny Jones. Selling over 200,000 copies in the UK alone and raising over £50,000 for "I CAN", the children’s communication charity, helping all children develop speech, language and communication skills, the original Words For You was an instant success, taking the number one spot on the compilation chart and becoming one of the biggest selling albums of 2009.
Cast & Characters
Track List
01 On Marriage by Kahill Gibran – Meryl Streep
02 All the Worlds A Stage by William Shakespeare – Jim Broadbent
03 Warning by Jenny Joseph – Helena Bonham Carter
04 Endymion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Terence Stamp
05 Sonnets from the Portugeuse XIV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Maureen Lipman
06 Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Benedict Cumberbatch
07 The Song of Wandering Aengus by WB Yeats – Dervla Kirwan
08 To A Mouse by Robert Burns – Peter Capaldi
09 Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson – Meryl Streep
10 I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood – Rupert Penry Jones
11 When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom’d by Walt Whitman – James Earl Jones
12 The Fairies by William Allingham – Dervla Kirwan
13 Happiness by Raymond Carver – Terrence Stamp
14 Bright Star by John Keats – Rupert Penry Jones
15 A Dream by Christina Rossetti – Helena Bonham Carter
16 On Easter Day by Oscar Wilde – Jim Broadbent
17 The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson – Peter Capaldi
18 Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte – Maureen Lipman
19 Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats – Benedict Cumberbatch
20 Missing You by Penelope Shuttle – Maureen Lipman
21 A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe – Terrence Stamp
22 Roses and Rue by Oscar Wilde – Rupert Penry Jones
23 Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox – Meryl Streep
24 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll – Benedict Cumberbatch
25 A Visit from St Nicholas by Anon – Dervla Kirwan
