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Rufus Wainwright: Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets review – extravagantly theatrical

(Deutsche Grammophon) One of the more unexpected tributes to Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death is provided here by actor William Shatner, who hams up Sonnet 129 before soprano Anna Prohaska trills the poem to a nouveaux-classical accompaniment. Take All My Loves is an uneasy marriage of classical and pop, on which the sonnets are often overwhelmed by Wainwright’s extravagantly theatrical arrangements. It has come to something when Florence Welch, who sings the waltz-time W...

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21:15 on April 21 2016

Rufus Wainwright: Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets review – extravagantly theatrical

Guardian Music — (Deutsche Grammophon) One of the more unexpected tributes to Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death is provided here by actor William Shatner, who hams up Sonn... more info
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19:52 on April 20 2016

'Take All My Loves' review: Rufus Wainwright mixes Shakespeare, opera, pop

Newsday — Rufus Wainwright's ambitious new project, "Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets" (Deutsche Grammophon), has its roots on Long Island. more info
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