Richard Burton – Alto CD https://altocd.com Classical Music and Nostalgia CDs Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:46:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Christmas Poetry & Prose – read by Great Voices https://altocd.com/product/christmas-poetry-prose-read-by-great-voices/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:46:19 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=52430 Readers include:
Alec Guinness,
Robert Donat,
Richard Burton,
Dulcie Gray,
Dylan Thomas,
Robert Frost,
Annette Daniels Taylor,
Basil Rathbone,
Claire Bloom,
special Guest: Jonathan Jones

Catalogue Number:  ALN 1978
Number of Discs: 1
Date/Runtime: Time: 75:26 stereo & DDD
Barcode: 5055354419782

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Preparations
1. Clement Moore: ‘Twas the Night before Christmas (A Visit from
St.Nicholas) / Basil Rathbone 3:15
2. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods / Robert Frost 0:50
3. Robert Frost: Dust of Snow / (author) 0:17
4. Eugene Field: When Santa Claus Comes / Jonathan Jones 0:45
5. John Betjeman: Christmas / Alec Guinness 2:13
6. E.E. Cummings: Little Tree / Jonathan Jones 1:23
Seasonal Regrets
7. Emily Dickinson: ‘Twas just this time last year I died /
Annette Daniels Taylor 1:17
8. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ring out Wild Bells !
(Canto CVI from In Memoriam A.H.H) / Jonathan Jones 2:05
9. Jill Furse: Carol / Robert Donat 0:42
10. Henry W. Longfellow: Christmas Bells / Jonathan Jones 1:59
Celebrations & Mythology
11. Edgar Guest: At Christmas / Jonathan Jones 2:23
12. Theodore Watts-Dunton: Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid
Tavern / Robert Donat 3:12
13. William Wordsworth: Minstrels / Jonathan Jones 1:02
14. Walter de la Mare: Mistletoe / Jonathan Jones 0:52
15. C.Day Lewis: The Christmas Tree / (author) 1:29
16. John Mason Neale: Good King Wenceslas / Jonathan Jones 1:54
Christmas Scenes
17. Shakespeare: When Icycles Hang / Claire Bloom 0:52
18. William Wordsworth: A Boisterous Winter Evening / Alec Clunes 2:20
19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Frost at Midnight /
Richard Burton & Dulcie Gray 4:39
20. Laurie Lee: Christmas Landscape / Jonathan Jones 1:40
21. Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs / Carleton Hobbs 1:06
22. James Stephens: Donnybrook / Lewis Jones 0:57
23. Odette Tchernine: The Snow / Dulcie Gray 1:08
Biblical
24. Hilaire Belloc: Noel / Robert Donat 1:27
25. Sara Teasdale: Christmas Carol / Jonathan Jones 1:16
26. T.S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi / Alec Guinness 2:33
27. Thomas Hardy: The Oxen / Robert Donat 0:42
28. Christina Rosetti: In the Bleak Midwinter / Jonathan Jones 1:51
29. John Alexander Chapman: Christus Natus Est / Robert Donat 1:14
30. Anon. Cherry Tree Carol / Alec Guinness 2:11
31. Anon. I Syng of a Mayden (‘Early Carol’) / Robert Donat 0:48
32. St.Francis of Assisi: Prayer / Robert Donat 1:52
Prose & New Year
33. Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales / (read by author) 19:48
34. Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne / Frederick Worlock 1:10
]]> Richard Burton The Voice in Poetry https://altocd.com/product/richard-burton-the-voice-in-poetry/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:43:20 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=51950 Richard Burton The Voice in Poetry

Richard Burton

Catalogue Number: ALN 1503
Number of Discs: 2
Date/Runtime:
Barcode: 5055354415036

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“One of the most expressive and romantic acting voices, in selections of his own”

CD One:

    • [1] Under Milk Wood: To Begin at the Beginning: 1.49

Dylan Thomas Poetry:

    • [2] A Winter’s Tale 7:19
    • [3] In my Craft and Sullen Art 0:55
    • [4] The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 1:20
    • [5] The Hand that Signed the Paper 1:05
    • [6] The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait 9:45
    • [7] Fernhill 3:23
    • [8] Hunchback in the Park  1.53
    • [9] Before I Knocked  2.21
    • [10] I See the Boys of Summer 2:52
    • [11] Lament 3:48
    • [12] Desiderata (1692, found in a Baltimore church)  2:02
    • [13] Adelstrop (Edward Thomas 1878-1917) 0:50
    • [14] Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
      (Ernest Dowson 1867-1900 ) 1:30
    • [15] Hunter Trials (John Betjeman 1906-84) 1:09

Thomas Hardy Poetry:

    • [16] At Casterbridge Fair (6 parts) 5:15
    • [17] The Voice 0:58
    • [18] Weathers 0:49
    • [19] She Charged Me 0:57

John Donne Poetry

    • [20] A Hymn to God the Father   1:02
    • [21] The Good Morrow 1:22
    • [22] Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star 1:04
    • [23] Song: Sweetest Love I do not go 1:49
    • [24] Frost at Midnight (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 4:23
    • [25] Lines from Richard II (Wm.Shakespeare) 1.56
    • [26] Lines from The Tempest (Wm.Shakespeare) 0:51

Dylan Thomas Poetry:

    • [27] Elegy (ed.Watkins) 2:31
    • [28] Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed 1:21
    • [29] Do not go Gentle into that Good Night 1:20
    • [30] And Death Shall Have No Dominion 1:35

CD Two:

    • [1] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Taylor Coleridge)
      Richard Burton with John Neville as narrator
      and Robert Hardy as the Wedding Guest 28:22

Thomas Hardy Poetry:

    • [2] In Tenebris 1:06
    • [3] Shut Out that Moon 1:13
    • [4] Reminiscences of a Dancing Man 1:22
    • [5] Let me Enjoy 0:51
    • [6] Beyond the Last Lamp 2:02
    • [7] I Found her out There 1:20
    • [8] In the Servants’ Quarters 2.20
    • [9] In the Study 1:03
    • [10] Timing Her 1:36
    • [11] Old Furniture 1:44
    • [12] At Castle Boterel 1:56

John Donne Poetry:

  • [13] Legacie 1.20
  • [14] The Anniversary 1:44
  • [15] A Nocturnall (Upon St. Lucy’s) 2:46
  • [16] A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 2:00
  • [17] The Extasie 3:47
  • [18] The Funerall 1:12
  • [19] The Relique 1:45
  • [20] At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corner 0:52
  • [21] Death be not Proud 0:54
]]> Dylan Thomas & Richard Burton read Dylan Thomas https://altocd.com/product/dylan-thomas-richard-burton-read-dylan-thomas/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:38:06 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=51158 Dylan Thomas & Richard Burton read Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas Richard Burton Catalogue Number: ALN 1924 Number of Discs: 1 Date/Runtime: AAD, 78:35 1951-4 ]]> “Burton was greatly affected at the death of his favourite drinking companion, Dylan Thomas…..When Burton himself died in 1984 he was buried with a copy of Dylan Thomas’ Collected Poems.” James Murray

  • [1] Over Sir John’s Hill (rec.1951)
  • [2] A Few Words Of A Kind (rec.1951)
  • [3] Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines (rec.1953)
  • [4] The Hunchback In The Park (rec.1951)
  • [5] After The Funeral (rec.1953)
  • [6] In Country Sleep (rec.1953)

Above selection written and read by Dylan Thomas

  • [7] In my craft and sullen art
  • [8] The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
  • [9] A Winter’s Tale
  • [10] The hand that signed the paper
  • [11] The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait
  • [12] Fernhill
  • [13] I see the boys of summer
  • [14] Lament
  • [15] Lie still, sleep becalmed
  • [16] Do not go gentle into that good night
  • [17] Poem in October
  • [18] And death shall have no dominion

Above selection read by Richard Burton (rec. 1954)

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