RICHARD BURTON: THE VOICE IN POETRY (2 CDS)

Richard Burton The Voice in Poetry

Richard Burton

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