{"id":3585,"date":"2013-11-04T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2013-11-04T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:09:07","slug":"shakespeares-sonnets-sung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/11\/04\/shakespeares-sonnets-sung\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sung"},"content":{"rendered":"

In anticipation of the lecture on Shakespeare's sonnets by Prof. Ricks next week in CC 201, here are performances of the Bard's fourteeners, set to music.<\/code><\/p>\n

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\nNo. 29<\/a> (Rufus Wainwright<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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\nNo.43<\/a> (Rufus Wainwright<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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\nNo.20<\/a> (Rufus Wainwright<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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\nNo.10<\/a> (Rufus Wainwright<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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\nNo.87<\/a> (Rufus Wainwright<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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\nNo.29<\/a> (Mingrelia<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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\nNo.18<\/a> (David Gilmour [of Pink Floyd]<\/a>;
\nsee also this article discussing Gilmour's setting
\nof this sonnet to music at Open Culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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\nNo.13, translated into Russian by Samuel Marshak<\/a>
\n(Mark Reizen; setting composed by Dmitry Kakbalevsky<\/a>)<\/div>\n

See also:<\/p>\n