Sonnets by William Shakespeare (translation by Samuil Marshak), performed by Innokenty Smoktunovsky.
Sonnets 5, 77, 76, 8, 56, 27, 121, 30, 21, 102, 84, 116, 15, 18 (“Stealthily the time with masterly skill…”, “Your silver hair will show in a mirror…”, “Alas, my verse is no longer new…”, “You are music, but to musical sounds…”, “Wake, love. Is this your mastery…”, “Wearied in my labors I wish to sleep…”, “Better to be sinful…”, “When, to the court of silent secret thoughts…”, “I don’t compete with creators of odes…”, “I love, but I speak of it less often…”, “Who knows those words…”, “To disturb the union of two hearts…”, “When I think that one single moment…”, “Shall I compare you to a summer day…”).
Main Editorial Office of Literary-Drama Radio Broadcasting (Foreign Literature Department), 1979.