Richard Burton The Voice in Poetry
Richard Burton
CD One:
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 0:57John 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) 0:51Dylan 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 1:35CD 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