Couplets

Victoria Wyndham & Charles Keating | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 20, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shanachie
• ASIN: B000000DTF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #343,660 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lovers and Madmen

2. Welcome/All That Time/Sonnet

3. A Birthday

4. Silly Song/New Born Infant's Song/My Brain

5. Oscar to His Son

6. Glass Eye

7. Theon

8. The Wounded Cupid Song

9. If Music Be the Food of Love/Come Hither Boy, O Mistress Mine

10. On Monsieurs Departure

11. May I Feel/I Found a Flower

12. I Will Attend Her Here/Men

13. I Saw a Lady/I Am a Young Girl

14. Song/His Clothes/My Black Hair/Pillow Book

15. A Statue of Eros/Now/In My Craft of Sullen Art

16. But I Do Think

17. Crabbit Old Woman/My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

18. In the Good Old Days/F Train

19. Idyll

20. Impotence

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Couplets CD -an excellant example of spoken word at its best, February 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Couplets (Audio CD)

I bought this CD because I am a fan of Victoria Wyndham and Charles Keating (Rachel and Carl of the NBC Daytime Soap "Another World". I wasn't really sure if it would be any more than an addition to my CD library - not frequently listened too. When it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised not only by the quality, but the range of listeners I think this would appeal to. (myself included) Selections range from children's stories and rhymes to Shakespeare to e.e. cummings. I've since bought copies for friends and relatives and multiple copies personally so I can have one in my car, home and office. I seriously recommend this to anyone looking for quality readings and enjoyment of the spoken word. Carolyn Williams END

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for Another World Fans!, October 31, 2009

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This review is from: Couplets (Audio CD)

Even though it's been 10 years, I still miss Another World which ran from 1965 until 1999. Victoria Wyndham had played Rachel Cory since the early 1970s as an artistic personality with her own unique beauty. When she paired up with the evil Carl Hutchings played by the delightful and fun Charles Keating, it was a pair made in soap heaven. They became close friends off-screen as well as on-screen. This compact disc is a collection of their audio recordings to classic literature ranging from Shakespeare to Rumi. They also include couplets by May Swenson, Eda St. Vincent Millay, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Frances Cornford, Annabel Laurina, Oscar Wilde, Eleni Vakalo, Anacreon, e.e. cummings, Elizabeth I, Jules Feiffer, Dorothy Parker, John Ford, Liu Young, Izumi Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, Zenodotus, Robert Browning, Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson, Barbara Fried, Phillip Whalen, Stoddard King, and Peter Barnes among the list. This widely varied recordings is quite enchanting. They speak with such passion and dedication to express the writers' sentiments. The writers mentioned here would have been proud to see their words come alive and dance for it's listeners. Sometimes playful, sometimes serious, sometimes just reminds me of my loss. Keating and Wyndham's professional partnership could be on par with other successful thespians like Ian McKellan/Judi Dench and others. They are that talented. Keating and Wyndham are seasoned professional actors who know how to deliver. You would not be disappointed with their performance which will make you ask why we don't have them on as much anymore. To me, the older the better.