Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Joanna Lumley tackles Shakespeare's Christmas poem

Hermione Norris, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley and Stephen Tompkinson have recorded Christmas Words For You, setting poems by Shakespeare, Blake and Wordsworth to classical music


Hermione Norris, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley and Stephen Tompkinson have recorded an album of Christmas poetry
Hermione Norris, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley and Stephen Tompkinson have recorded an album of Christmas poetry 


Then heigh ho, the holly,
This life is most jolly!
So ends a Christmas poem, Song of the Holly, by William Shakespeare that will be set to classical music and read by actress Joanna Lumley in an album called Christmas Words For You.

 "This album demonstrates that the words of over 500 years ago are as relevant today as they were then," Lumley told PA. "There is a magic about Christmas that transcends centuries."
Jim Broadbent, Stephen Tompkinson and Hermione Norris are the other celebrities hoping to take the words of Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, William Blake and John Betjeman into the album charts.
A total of 22 poems have been included on the follow-up to the 2007 album Words For You, which sold nearly quarter of a million copies. 
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