Shakespeare: Othello
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1998-09-15
Music Label: Pearl
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Act 1, Scene 1: Venice. A Street.
- Act 1, Scene 2: Another Street
- Act 1, Scene 3: Venice. A Coucil Chamber
- Act 2, Scene 1: A Seaport in Cyprus. An Open Place
- Act 2, Scene 2: Cyprus - A Hall in the Castle
- Act 2, Scene 3: Cyprus - The Garden of the Castle
- Act 3, Scene 4: Cyprus. Before the Castle
- Act 6, Scene 1: Before the Castle
- Act 6, Scene 2: A Room in the Castle
- Act 6, Scene 3: Another Room in the Castle
- Act 5, Scene 2: Cyprus - A Bedchamber in the Castle
- Sanders of the River, Scene: The Drum Say War
- Sanders of the River: Canoe Song
- Water Boy
Music reviews of Shakespeare: Othello
Music Review: The CD--(double, looks like a DVD) is as clear as if it were from a performance given yesterday.
Rating: 5 Stars
"Put up your bright swords, or the dew will rust them!"
"Oh thou weed, that smellst so sweet that the senses ache at thee...I'll smell it on the tree..."
Paul Robeson not only has the most wonderful voice, but is a superb actor as well. His deep, flexible, expressive tones seem to be going exactly where they are inclined to go, instead of where a man writing over 400 years ago, in what we call "Shakespearian English" (closer to ours than middle English--but not quite there) dictated. Uta Hagen ("and I remain behind, a moth of peace...Let me go with him!") is also perfect.
When I first got the 33 1/3 RPM record (as close to 1950 as possible), I loved Jose Ferrer as Iago, with his India-rubber ball voice, best of all. He is great, but sometimes I find his scenes with Othello so insinuating (after he has begun to feed Othello his "poison" Othello: "Well then--I do believe-- Desdemona's honest." Iago: "Long live she so! And long live you to [very insinuating] think so." One sometimes wonders at Othello's gullibility [which is of course part of his character..but still...]} Iago floats over his "motive-hunting of motiveless malignancy" to perfection. Everything moves toward its inevitable conclusion, with Iago pushing, pulling, tacking, fashioning "the net/ that shall enmesh them all."
I was too young to see this performance (8 in 1943); it's one of many things I wish I could go back in time for.
If you can enjoy listening to a Shakespeare play, instead of watching it--do yourself a good turn, and get this one!
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