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THOMAS: Under Milk Wood (1954) / Return Journey to Swansea / Selected poems and stories




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This varied, well-chosen selection brings onto one CD set the best of Dylan Thomas. Here is the legendary recording of Under Milk Wood, with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators; but here also are two radio productions he wrote before that great classic, and though interesting in their own right, they show how Under Milk Wood grew gradually in his imagination. Thomas was a charismatic if idiosyncratic performer of his own poetry and stories and here is a representative selection. Performances of Dylan Thomas have since moved on and the greatness of the writer as a poet and storyteller are perhaps best heard in new recordings by actors of our own time. Here Bebb, Madoc and Hughes share some of Thomas's finest, most challenging and endearing works.

Disc 1


    Under Milk Wood - A Play for Voices (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Richard Burton, reader
    Richard Bebb, reader / Cast
    Recording date: 23-Jan-1954

  1. First Voice: To begin at the beginning - 05:12
  2. First Drowned: Remember me, Captain - 01:38
  3. First Voice: From where you are... - 00:29
  4. Mr Edwards: Myfanwy Price! - 01:18
  5. First Voice: Come now, drift up the dark... - 01:43
  6. Mother: This little piggy... - 02:15
  7. First Voice: Now, in her iceberg-white... - 00:42
  8. Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard: Mr Ogmore! - 01:09
  9. First Voice: In Butcher Beynon's... - 00:27
  10. Organ Morgan: Help! cries Organ Morgan... - 00:27
  11. First Voice: At the sea end of town... - 00:27
  12. Utah Watkins: (Yawning) Thirty four, thirty five... - 03:06
  13. First Voice: Now behind the eyes and secrets... - 02:53
  14. First Voice: Time passes. Listen. Time passes - 01:57
  15. Rev. Eli Jenkins: Dear Gwalia! I know there are... - 01:59
  16. First Voice: Now, woken at last by the out-of-bed... - 00:22
  17. Lily Smalls: Oh, there's a face! - 02:14
  18. First Voice: Mary Ann the Sailors... - 02:39
  19. First Voice: Now frying-pans spit... - 01:18
  20. First Voice: Mr and Mrs Cherry Owen... - 01:32
  21. First Voice: From Beynon Butchers in Coronation Street... - 01:09
  22. First Voice: Up the street, in the Sailor's Arms... - 02:37
  23. Captain Cat: (Softly, to himself) Maggie Richards, Ricky Rhys... - 03:49
  24. First Voice: People are moving now, up and down... - 03:27
  25. First Voice: There's the clip clop of horses... - 00:45
  26. First Woman: Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard - 01:00
  27. First Voice: Outside, the sun springs down... - 01:32
  28. First Voice: And in Willy Nilly the Postman's dark... - 02:33
  29. Second Voice: ...herring gulls heckling down to the harbour... - 02:06
  30. First Voice: The music of the spheres is heard distinctly... - 02:33
  31. Polly Garter: I loved a man whose name was Tom... - 03:44
  32. First Voice: And the morning school is over... - 02:44
  33. First Voice: And the shrill girls giggle and muster around him... - 01:45
  34. Gossamer Beynon: I don't care if he is common... - 01:12
  35. First Voice: In the blind-drawn dark dining-room of School House... - 03:31
  36. First Voice: Lord Cut-Glass, in his kitchen full of time... - 04:41
  37. First Voice: Captain Cat, at his window... - 04:11
  38. First Voice: The child says, and then she forgets him too - 01:23

Disc 2


    Return Journey to Swansea (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Thomas, reader / Cast

  1. Narrator: It was a cold white day in the High Street... - 04:57
  2. Narrator: I went out of the hotel into the snow... - 06:02
  3. Narrator: And he hurried on, into the dervish snow... - 05:23
  4. Narrator: The Hall is shattered... - 05:55
  5. Narrator: Even now, on the frozen foreshore... - 04:36


    6. Under Milk Wood - A Play for Voices (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Richard Burton, reader
    Richard Bebb, reader / Cast
    Recording date: 23-Jan-1954

  6. Second Voice: The afternoon buzzes like lazy bees... - 03:58
  7. First Voice: Now the town is dusk - 00:58
  8. Mr Pritchard: You first, Mr Ogmore - 01:30
  9. Rev. Eli Jenkins: Every morning, when I wake... - 01:52
  10. First Voice: Dusk is drowned forever until tomorrow - 01:57
  11. First Voice: Blind Captain Cat climbs into his bunk - 00:56
  12. First Voice: Mr Mog Edwards and Miss Myfanwy Price... - 01:16
  13. First Voice: The thin night darkens - 00:45


    14. Quite Early One Morning (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Thomas, reader

  14. Quite early one morning in the winter in Wales... - 03:18
  15. The town was not yet awake - 03:15
  16. And climbing down again and up out of the town... - 03:00
  17. Oh, the town was waking now... - 02:50


    18. Poems (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Thomas, reader

  18. Lament - 04:23
  19. Poem on his birthday - 06:42
  20. And death shall have no dominion - 01:50
  21. Fern Hill - 03:51
  22. Do not go gentle into that good night - 01:09

Disc 3


    Memories of Christmas (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  1. One Christmas was so much like another in those years... - 05:12
  2. Now out of that bright white snowball of Christmas... - 04:07
  3. We returned home through the desolate poor sea-facing streets... - 02:57


    4. The Peaches (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Jason Hughes, reader

  4. The grass-green cart, with 'J. Jones, Gorsehill' painted... - 05:06
  5. He backed the mare into Union Street... - 06:33
  6. 'Can I go and see the pigs?' - 04:50
  7. Gwilym's chapel was the last old barn before the field... - 04:25
  8. The best room smelt of moth balls and fur... - 06:44
  9. Down the thick dingle Jack and I ran shouting... - 07:07
  10. Our door was open - 05:21


    11. A Visit to Grandpa's (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Jason Hughes, reader

  11. In the middle of the night I woke... - 03:31
  12. In the morning I woke from a dream of fiery horses... - 02:15
  13. When we came to Llanstephan village... - 04:34
  14. 'Where are we going?' I asked - 03:00

Disc 4


    The Followers (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Michael Sheen, reader

  1. It was six o'clock on a winter's evening - 04:47
  2. The barmaid, with gold hair and two gold teeth in front... - 04:18
  3. Outside Rabiotti's cafe, Leslie said... - 04:50
  4. All over the dripping town... - 03:51


    5. The Outing - a story (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  5. If you can call it a story - 04:05
  6. On Sunday evening, after Bethesda... - 04:21
  7. The charabanc drew up outside... - 04:56
  8. Time clouded over, the cows wondered... - 03:35


    9. The force that through the green fuse drives the flower (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  9. The force that through the green fuse drives the flower - 01:27


    10. The conversation of prayers (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Richard Bebb, reader

  10. The conversation of prayers - 01:32


    11. A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  11. A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London - 01:12


    12. Elegy (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  12. Elegy - 01:14


    13. Poem in October (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Jason Hughes, reader

  13. Poem in October - 02:55


    14. The hunchback in the park (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  14. The hunchback in the park - 01:41


    15. A Winter's Tale (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Richard Bebb, reader

  15. A Winter's Tale - 08:48


    16. In my craft or sullen art (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Jason Hughes, reader

  16. In my craft or sullen art - 00:51


    17. Lie still, sleep becalmed (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Jason Hughes, reader

  17. Lie still, sleep becalmed - 01:07


    18. Fern Hill (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Richard Bebb, reader

  18. Fern Hill - 03:31


    19. Over Sir John's hill (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  19. Over Sir John's hill - 03:20


    20. Poem on his Birthday (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Michael Sheen, reader

  20. Poem on his Birthday - 05:46


    21. Do not go gentle into that good night (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  21. Do not go gentle into that good night - 01:21


    22. Lament (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  22. Lament - 03:18


    23. Was there a time (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Philip Madoc, reader

  23. Was there a time - 00:36


    24. And death shall have no dominion (more info)
    Composed by: Dylan Thomas
    Michael Sheen, reader

  24. And death shall have no dominion - 01:57

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Product Details
 
Composer(s)/ Author(s):
Thomas, Dylan

Artist(s):
Bebb, Richard; Bebb, Richard; Burton, Richard; Hughes, Jason; Madoc, Philip; Sheen, Michael; Thomas, Dylan; Thomas, Dylan

Label: Naxos Audio Books
UPC: 9789626343432
Item Number: NA434312
Release Date: Jan 21, 2005

 
 
 
 
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