Poetry Album
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Label: Alto
Cat No: ALN1958
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 4th September 2015
Contents
Artists
Robert Donat (narrator)Alec Guinness (narrator)
Laurie Lee (narrator)
James Mason (narrator)
Artists
Robert Donat (narrator)Alec Guinness (narrator)
Laurie Lee (narrator)
James Mason (narrator)
About
Contents:
Robert Donat reads his choices:
1. Rudyard Kipling: The Way through the Woods
2. Robert Bridges: Nightingales
3. John Keats: Bright Star
4. Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
5. Keats: Ode to Melancholy
6. Keats: When I Have Fears
7. Percy Shelley: Adonais (in memory Keats)
Laurie Lee & James Mason
8. Laurie Lee: The Abandoned Shade (author)
9. Laurie Lee: Day of these Days (author)
10. Robert Browning: The Bishop Orders his Tomb (James Mason)
Alec Guinness’ choices
11. Edith Sitwell: I do Like to be Beside the Seaside (Façade)
12. Edith Sitwell: Polka (Façade)
13. Hilaire Belloc: Tarantella
14. Walter James Turner: Romance (‘Chimborazo Cotopaxi’)
15. Robert Graves: Through Nightmare
16. W.H. Auden: Hearing of Harvest, Rotting in the Valley
17. Anon: Clerk Saunders
18. Anon: King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
19. Wm.Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 3 – Act 2, Scene 5: Soliloquy
20. Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi’s
21. Ogden Nash: Serviette in a Lovely Home
22. Arthur Hugh Clough: Spectator Ab Extra
23. William Blake: Night
24. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Leaden Echo & the Golden Echo
War Poets (selection)
25. David Jones: In Parenthesis (excerpt)(C Day Lewis, Hugh Burden, John Stride, Gary Watson)
26. Robert Graves: The Survivor (V.C. Clinton-Baddeley)
27. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting (Alec Guinness)
28. Wilfred Owen: Arms & the Boy (Carleton Hobbs)
29. Wilfred Owen: Futility (Robert Donat)
30. Rupert Brooke: The Hill (Robert Donat)
31. Siegfried Sassoon: The Death Bed (Robert Donat)
32. Henry Reed: Naming of Parts (author)
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