Author(s): Thomas, Dylan
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction; Plays - Others; Poetry
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA434312
Barcode: 9789626343432
Release Date: 02/2005

THOMAS, D.: Essential Dylan Thomas (The)

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, 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.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Thomas, Dylan - Author
1First Voice: To begin at the beginning05:12
2First Drowned: Remember me, Captain?01:38
3First Voice: From where you are...00:30
4Mr Edwards: Myfanwy Price!01:18
5First Voice: Come now, drift up the dark...01:44
6Mother: This little piggy...02:16
7First Voice: Now, in her iceberg-white...00:43
8Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard: Mr Ogmore!01:09
9First Voice: In Butcher Beynon's...00:28
10Organ Morgan: Help! cries Organ Morgan...00:28
11First Voice: At the sea end of town...00:27
12Utah Watkins: (Yawning) Thirty four, thirty five...03:07
13First Voice: Now behind the eyes and secrets...02:54
14First Voice: Time passes. Listen. Time passes01:58
15Rev. Eli Jenkins: Dear Gwalia! I know there are...02:00
16First Voice: Now, woken at last by the out-of-bed...00:23
17Lily Smalls: Oh, there's a face!02:14
18First Voice: Mary Ann the Sailors...02:39
19First Voice: Now frying-pans spit...01:19
20First Voice: Mr and Mrs Cherry Owen...01:32
21First Voice: From Beynon Butchers in Coronation Street...01:10
22First Voice: Up the street, in the Sailor's Arms...02:38
23Captain Cat: (Softly, to himself) Maggie Richards, Ricky Rhys...03:50
24First Voice: People are moving now, up and down...03:28
25First Voice: There's the clip clop of horses...00:46
26First Woman: Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard01:01
27First Voice: Outside, the sun springs down...01:32
28First Voice: And in Willy Nilly the Postman's dark...02:34
29Second Voice: ...herring gulls heckling down to the harbour...02:07
30First Voice: The music of the spheres is heard distinctly...02:33
31Polly Garter: I loved a man whose name was Tom...03:44
32First Voice: And the morning school is over...02:45
33First Voice: And the shrill girls giggle and muster around him...01:46
34Gossamer Beynon: I don't care if he is common...01:12
35First Voice: In the blind-drawn dark dining-room of School House...03:31
36First Voice: Lord Cut-Glass, in his kitchen full of time...04:41
37First Voice: Captain Cat, at his window...04:12
38First Voice: The child says, and then she forgets him too01:23
Disc 2
1Second Voice: The afternoon buzzes like lazy bees...03:58
2First Voice: Now the town is dusk00:58
3Mr Pritchard: You first, Mr Ogmore01:30
4Rev. Eli Jenkins: Every morning, when I wake...01:52
5First Voice: Dusk is drowned forever until tomorrow01:57
6First Voice: Blind Captain Cat climbs into his bunk00:57
7First Voice: Mr Mog Edwards and Miss Myfanwy Price...01:16
8First Voice: The thin night darkens00:46
9Narrator: It was a cold white day in the High Street...04:58
10Narrator: I went out of the hotel into the snow...06:02
11Narrator: And he hurried on, into the dervish snow...05:23
12Narrator: The Hall is shattered...05:55
13Narrator: Even now, on the frozen foreshore...04:37
14Quite early one morning in the winter in Wales...03:19
15The town was not yet awake03:16
16And climbing down again and up out of the town...03:01
17Oh, the town was waking now...02:50
18Lament04:23
19Poem on his birthday06:43
20And death shall have no dominion01:51
21Fern Hill03:52
22Do not go gentle into that good night01:10
Disc 3
1One Christmas was so much like another in those years...05:12
2Now out of that bright white snowball of Christmas...04:08
3We returned home through the desolate poor sea-facing streets...02:58
4The grass-green cart, with 'J. Jones, Gorsehill' painted...05:06
5He backed the mare into Union Street...06:34
6'Can I go and see the pigs?'04:51
7Gwilym's chapel was the last old barn before the field...04:26
8The best room smelt of moth balls and fur...06:44
9Down the thick dingle Jack and I ran shouting...07:07
10Our door was open05:22
11In the middle of the night I woke...03:32
12In the morning I woke from a dream of fiery horses...02:15
13When we came to Llanstephan village...04:35
14'Where are we going?' I asked03:00
Disc 4
1It was six o'clock on a winter's evening04:47
2The barmaid, with gold hair and two gold teeth in front...04:18
3Outside Rabiotti's cafe, Leslie said...04:50
4All over the dripping town...03:51
5If you can call it a story04:06
6On Sunday evening, after Bethesda...04:21
7The charabanc drew up outside...04:56
8Time clouded over, the cows wondered...03:35
9The force that through the green fuse drives the flower01:27
10The conversation of prayers01:32
11A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London01:13
12Elegy01:15
13Poem in October02:55
14The hunchback in the park01:41
15A Winter's Tale08:48
16In my craft or sullen art00:51
17Lie still, sleep becalmed01:08
18Fern Hill03:31
19Over Sir John's hill03:20
20Poem on his Birthday05:46
21Do not go gentle into that good night01:21
22Lament03:19
23Was there a time00:36
24And death shall have no dominion01:58

Total Playing Time: 04:50:41