Alec Guiness / Burton,Richard / Betjeman,John- The Gift Of Poetry
SKU: 5055354419683
Over 78 mins of sustained quality favorites, well-remastered vintage classic tracks chosen by experts, legendary voices.
Tracklist:
- W. H. Auden: The Night Mail (John Laurie)
- Laurie Lee: April (Laurie Lee)
- Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol (Frank Duncan)
- Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose (John Neville)
- Alec Guinness Reading: (*With Osian Ellis, Harp) E. E. Cummings: Sweet Spring
- E. E. Cummings: When Faces Called Flowers
- E. E. Cummings: The Moon Looked Into My Window
- Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not for Sportive Lays*
- Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend* 1
- Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme* 1
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior* 1
- Richard Burton Reading: Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights 1
- Thomas Hardy: The Voice 1
- John Clare: Autumn 1
- Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd 1
- Walter Raleigh: Nymph's Reply 1
- Bishop Henry King: From Exequy on His Wife 1
- William Dunbar: From Lament of the Makers 1
- Robert Graves: Welsh Incident 2
- John Betjeman Reading Betjeman: The Church's Restoration 2
- Olympic Girl 2
- Seaside Golf 2
- Business Women 2
- Indoor Games Near Newbury 2
- How to Get on in Society 2
- Licorice Fields at Pontefract 2
- Robert Donat Reading: A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning 2
- John Betjeman: Death at Leamington 2
- Coventry Patmore: The Toys 3
- T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat 3
- Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake 3
- Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (Extract) 3
- WM Shakespeare: On Her Reign (From Henry VIII) 3
- Shakespeare: 'Dirge for Fidele' from Cymbeline (Fear No More the Heat of the Sun...) 3
- William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality 3
- John Donne: A Devotion (No Man Is An Island) (Orson Welles) 3
- Langston Hughes: Freedom Train (Paul Robeson) 3
- Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address (Orson Welles)
UPC > 5055354419683
Format > New CD
Label > Alto
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Over 78 mins of sustained quality favorites, well-remastered vintage classic tracks chosen by experts, legendary voices.
Tracklist:
- W. H. Auden: The Night Mail (John Laurie)
- Laurie Lee: April (Laurie Lee)
- Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol (Frank Duncan)
- Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose (John Neville)
- Alec Guinness Reading: (*With Osian Ellis, Harp) E. E. Cummings: Sweet Spring
- E. E. Cummings: When Faces Called Flowers
- E. E. Cummings: The Moon Looked Into My Window
- Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not for Sportive Lays*
- Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend* 1
- Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme* 1
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior* 1
- Richard Burton Reading: Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights 1
- Thomas Hardy: The Voice 1
- John Clare: Autumn 1
- Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd 1
- Walter Raleigh: Nymph's Reply 1
- Bishop Henry King: From Exequy on His Wife 1
- William Dunbar: From Lament of the Makers 1
- Robert Graves: Welsh Incident 2
- John Betjeman Reading Betjeman: The Church's Restoration 2
- Olympic Girl 2
- Seaside Golf 2
- Business Women 2
- Indoor Games Near Newbury 2
- How to Get on in Society 2
- Licorice Fields at Pontefract 2
- Robert Donat Reading: A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning 2
- John Betjeman: Death at Leamington 2
- Coventry Patmore: The Toys 3
- T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat 3
- Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake 3
- Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (Extract) 3
- WM Shakespeare: On Her Reign (From Henry VIII) 3
- Shakespeare: 'Dirge for Fidele' from Cymbeline (Fear No More the Heat of the Sun...) 3
- William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality 3
- John Donne: A Devotion (No Man Is An Island) (Orson Welles) 3
- Langston Hughes: Freedom Train (Paul Robeson) 3
- Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address (Orson Welles)
UPC > 5055354419683
Format > New CD
Label > Alto
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.