Norman Meehan / Bill Manhire / Hannah Griffin
Making Baby Float [ Rattle Records / 2 CD/DVD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] A performance that captures the natural essence of the material, and the vital energy of a live musical event. The DVD is beautifully shot and includes tracks additional to those selected for the CD. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS & POETS
Parihaka: The Art Of Passive Resistance Various performers [ Morrison Music Trust / CD - released 21/Dec/2000 ] Music inspired by story of Parihaka, and extracts from poems commissioned by the Gallery for the exhibition, read by the poets themselves. |
ANTHONY RITCHIE
New Zealand Poets in Song Anna Leese (soprano) Matthew Leese (piano) [ Ode Records / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] New Zealand Poets In Song is the latest release featuring the music of Anthony Ritchie. The songs on this recording span 26 years, and signify many happy collaborations between Anthony Ritchie and various New Zealand poets. |
DYLAN THOMAS
Dylan Thomas reads his own poetry (Incls 'Fern Hill: Lament' & 'Child's Christmas in Wales') Dylan Thomas [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] |
VARIOUS POETS
Classic Poems For Girls Roy McMillan, Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5-10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve, to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda, to... |
WORDSWORTH / KEATS / SHAKESPEARE / THOMAS
Poetry Choice Michael Redgrave / Robert Donat / Dylan Thomas [ Alto / CD - released 10/Jun/2015 ] Almost 70 minutes of sustained quality favourites, all read by legendary voices. |
Norman Meehan / Bill Manhire
Buddhist Rain [ Rattle Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] Award-winning poet, Bill Manhire, and composer/pianist Norman Meehan have collaborated to create the first settings of Bill Manhire's poetry. |
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The Great Poets: Matthew Arnold Read by Jonathan Keeble [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 18/Aug/2017 ] Considered the bridge between romanticism and modernism, Matthew Arnold wrote verse that is simple, unadorned and straightforward. From the hypnotic and beautiful lines of Dover Beach to the pastoral narrative of The Scholar Gipsy, Arnold cast a gaze... |
DYLAN THOMAS
Dylan Thomas Poetry Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas (narrators) [ ALTO / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "He was greatly affected at the death of his favourite drinking companion, Dylan Thomas.....When Burton died in 1984 he was buried with a copy of Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems." - James Murray |
SHAKESPEARE / KEATS / CLARE / BLAKE / etc
Poetry For The Winter Season James Barraclough, Ron Bloomfield, Christine Dimble, Roger McGough, James Murphy, Hazel Pardon, and others [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2006 ] In November 2005, hundreds of people submitted recordings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Roger McGough in an attempt to win a prize - participation in the recording of this new poetry collection by Christina Hardyment, historian and audiobook... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Sonnets (unabridged) Alex Jennings (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2015 ] Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of may' or 'remembrance of things past' 'the marriage of minds'. For centuries these wonderfully-crafted, intense lyrics have stood for... |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Great Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley Bertie Carvel (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet-Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted... |
Charles Bukowski
Reads His Poetry [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas Reads Under Milk Wood [ ALTO / 2 CD - released 19/Apr/2010 ] "Ever since its first iconic BBC broadcast in 1954, Under Milk Wood has shone a definitive, iconic and humorous light on small-town communities... |
DYLAN THOMAS
Dylan Thomas Reads His Prose & More Poetry Dylan Thomas (narrator) [ Alto / CD - released 4/Oct/2013 ] This CD includes the works Prologue, A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child Killed by Fire in London, The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower…. Laugharne, If I were Tickled by the Rub of Love, etc |
Various Artists
Seeing Voices: New Zealand Poets Reading [ Atoll / CD - released 29/Jun/2012 ] New Zealand poets reading their own works |
PHILIP GLASS
Book Of Longing: A Song Cycle based on the Poetry and Images of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen (spoken text) Dominique Plaisant (soprano) Tara Hugo (mezzo) Will Erat (tenor) Daniel Keeling (bass-baritone) Philip Glass (keyboard) [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "For me, this work is both a departure from past work and a fulfillment of an artistic dream." -Philip Glass |
WILLIAM BLAKE
Great Poets - William Blake Robert Glenister / Michael Maloney / Stephen Critchlow. [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2007 ] Naxos AudioBooks begins its new series of Great Poets-represented by their most popular poems on one CD-with William Blake, whose 250th anniversary of birth falls this year. This CD contains all of his most popular works-Tyger, the Auguries of ... |
Jenny Bornholdt
New Zealand Poets [ Jayrem Records New Zealand / CD - released 9/Aug/2008 ] Jenny Bornholdt has written seven books of poetry, including a selected poems "Miss New Zealand" (VUW,1997)... |
SHAKESPEARE
Great Shakespeare Speeches Lawrence Olivier / John Gielgud / Marlon Brando / Alec Guinness / Arnold Moss [ Regis / CD - released 28/Nov/2007 ] He could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles C. Bennett, who met Laurence Olivier in 1927. One of Olivier's earliest successes as a Shakespearean actor on the London... |