Christmas Poetry & Prose read by Great Voices
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Label: Alto
Cat No: ALN1978
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 6th November 2020
Contents
Artists
Alec GuinnessRobert Donat
Richard Burton
Dulcie Gray
Dylan Thomas
Robert Frost
Annette Daniels Taylor
Basil Rathbone
Claire Bloom
Cecil Day-Lewis
Jonathan Jones
Alec Clunes
Carleton Hobbs
Lewis Jones
Frederick Worlock
Artists
Alec GuinnessRobert Donat
Richard Burton
Dulcie Gray
Dylan Thomas
Robert Frost
Annette Daniels Taylor
Basil Rathbone
Claire Bloom
Cecil Day-Lewis
Jonathan Jones
Alec Clunes
Carleton Hobbs
Lewis Jones
Frederick Worlock
About
Contents:
Preparations
1. Clement Moore: ’Twas the Night before Christmas (A Visit from St Nicholas)
- Basil Rathbone
2. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods
- Robert Frost
3. Robert Frost: Dust of Snow
- Robert Frost
4. Eugene Field: When Santa Claus Comes
- Jonathan Jones
5. John Betjeman: Christmas
- Alec Guinness
6. E.E. Cummings: Little Tree
- Jonathan Jones
Seasonal Regrets
7. Emily Dickinson: ’Twas just this time last year I died
- Annette Daniels Taylor
8. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ring out Wild Bells! (Canto CVI from In Memoriam A.H.H)
- Jonathan Jones
9. Jill Furse: Carol
- Robert Donat
10. Henry W. Longfellow: Christmas Bells
- Jonathan Jones
Celebrations & Mythology
11. Edgar Guest: At Christmas
- Jonathan Jones
12. Theodore Watts-Dunton: Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid Tavern
- Robert Donat
13. William Wordsworth: Minstrels
- Jonathan Jones
14. Walter de la Mare: Mistletoe
- Jonathan Jones
15. Cecil Day-Lewis: The Christmas Tree
- Cecil Day-Lewis
16. John Mason Neale: Good King Wenceslas
- Jonathan Jones
Christmas Scenes
17. Shakespeare: When Icycles Hang
- Claire Bloom
18. William Wordsworth: A Boisterous Winter Evening
- Alec Clunes
19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Frost at Midnight
- Richard Burton & Dulcie Gray
20. Laurie Lee: Christmas Landscape
- Jonathan Jones
21. Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs
- Carleton Hobbs
22. James Stephens: Donnybrook
- Lewis Jones
23. Odette Tchernine: The Snow
- Dulcie Gray
Biblical
24. Hilaire Belloc: Noel
- Robert Donat
25. Sara Teasdale: Christmas Carol
- Jonathan Jones
26. T.S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi
- Alec Guinness
27. Thomas Hardy: The Oxen
- Robert Donat
28. Christina Rosetti: In the Bleak Midwinter
- Jonathan Jones
29. John Alexander Chapman: Christus natus est
- Robert Donat
30. Anon.: Cherry Tree Carol
- Alec Guinness
31. Anon.: I Syng of a Mayden (‘Early Carol’)
- Robert Donat
32. St Francis of Assisi: Prayer
- Robert Donat
Prose & New Year
33. Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales
- Dylan Thomas
34. Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne
- Frederick Worlock
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