Jeremy Brett reading Elizabethan poetry

[med_cat]

Greetings, everyone! I thought I would share this recording with those who have not heard it before. This excerpt comes from a CD called "I Love, Alas" (Elizabethan Life in Music, Song, and Poetry/Elizabethan in Love) , which is out of print (although used copies still get sold on Amazon UK--I had bought my copy there). The poems (by Sir Philip

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[ville_rose]

I very much enjoyed listening to that. Thank you for sharing it with us :)

[med_cat]

Very glad you enjoyed!

[ville_rose]

Oh yes, I did, very much. Such a lovely voice.

[med_cat]

Have you heard him singing in "The Merry Widow"? :)

[ville_rose]

Only in the video by "bafta4jb" in the little clip that was used. It sounded very nice :)

[med_cat]

There's a clip on YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhRLWwdbu-w

and a few others on MySpace, here: http://www.myspace.com/mrjeremybrett (on the little ipod thingy)--other songs there too :)

[ville_rose]

Thank you. I shall listen to them tomorrow.

[med_cat]

Enjoy :)