The Juliet Letters

Album by Elvis Costello & Brodsky Quartet

The Juliet Letters is a 1993 collaborative album by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet, a song cycle for voice and string quartet. Conceived as an epistolary work inspired by letters to Shakespeare’s Juliet, it blends chamber music and classical crossover with pop elements to explore themes of love, loss and correspondence.
First released: 19th January 1993

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Deliver Us
    0:49
  2. 2.
    For Other Eyes
    2:55
  3. 3.
    Swine
    2:08
  4. 4.
    Expert Rites
    2:23
  5. 5.
    Dead Letter
    2:18
  6. 6.
    I Almost Had a Weakness
    3:53
  7. 7.
    Why?
    1:26
  8. 8.
    Who Do You Think You Are?
    3:28
  9. 9.
    Taking My Life in Your Hands
    3:20
  10. 10.
    This Offer Is Unrepeatable
    3:12
  11. 11.
    Dear Sweet Filthy World
    4:17
  12. 12.
    The Letter Home
    3:10
  13. 13.
    Jacksons, Monk and Rowe
    3:43
  14. 14.
    This Sad Burlesque
    2:47
  15. 15.
    Romeo's Seance
    3:32
  16. 16.
    I Thought I'd Write to Juliet
    4:07
  17. 17.
    Last Post
    2:24
  18. 18.
    The First to Leave
    4:59
  19. 19.
    Damnation's Cellar
    3:25
  20. 20.
    The Birds Will Still Be Singing
    4:27

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