Voices of History 2 - CD 1

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Alfred Tennyson - from Maud: A Monodrama - final stanza from Part 1
Mitwirkende: Tennyson, Alfred [Rezitator/in]
Datum: 1890 [Aufnahmedatum]
Schlagworte: Literatur ; Kultur ; Lyrik ; Großbritannien
Typ: audio
Inhalt: from Maud (Part I)

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A Monodrama

Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone;
And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the rose is blown.

For a breeze of morning moves,
And the planet of Love is on high,
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves
In a bed of daffodil sky,
To faint in the light of the sun she loves,
To faint in his light, and to die.

All night have the roses heard
The flute, violin, bassoon;
All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
To the dancers dancing in tune;
Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
And a hush with the setting moon.

I said to the lily, "There is but one
With whom she has heart to be gay.
When will the dancers leave her alone?
She is weary of dance and play."
Now half to the setting moon are gone,
And half to the rising day;
Low on the sand and loud on the stone
The last wheel echoes away.

I said to the rose, "The brief night goes
In babble and revel and wine.
O young lord-lover, what sighs are those,
For one that will never be thine?
But mine, but mine," so I sware to the rose,
"For ever and ever, mine."

And the soul of the rose went into my blood,
As the music clash'd in the hall;
And long by the garden lake I stood,
For I heard your rivulet fall
From the lake to the meadow and on to the wood,
Our wood, that is dearer than all;

From the meadow your walks have left so sweet
That whenever a March-wind sighs
He sets the jewel-print of your feet
In violets blue as your eyes,
To the woody hollows in which we meet
And the valleys of Paradise.

The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake,
They sigh'd for the dawn and thee.

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,
Come hither, the dances are done,
In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls,
Queen lily and rose in one;
Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls,
To the flowers, and be their sun.

There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear;
She is coming, my life, my fate;
The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait."

She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthy bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead,
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red. , Transkript der letzten Stanze von "from Maud"

She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthy bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead,
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red.
Phineas T(aylor) Barnum - The greatest show on earth
Mitwirkende: Barnum, Phineas Taylor [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 17.02.1890 [Aufnahmedatum]
Ort: London [Aufnahmeort]
Schlagworte: Unterhaltung ; Gesellschaft ; Freizeit ; Großbritannien ; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Typ: audio
Inhalt: Transkribt

Barnum's Farewell. Edison House, London. This 17th of February, 1890. My greatest show on earth having closed on the 16th, after a marvelous success testified to by a million and a half patrons in 14 weeks, I wish to give my parting thanks to the British public, and to assure them that I shall ever gratefully cherish most pleasant memories of their kindness and hospitality, even higher than the pecuniary success with which they have crowned my efforts to please them. I thus address the world through the medium of the latest wonderful invention, Edison's phonograph, so that my voice, like my great show, will reach future generations, and be heard centuries after I have joined the great, and as I believe, happy majority. P. T. Barnum.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy - Thoughts from the Book For Every Day
Mitwirkende: Tolstoi, Lew [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1909.10.31 [Aufnahmedatum]
Schlagworte: Literatur ; Gesellschaft ; Prosa ; Religion ; orthodoxe Kirchen ; Philosophie ; Russland
Typ: audio
Inhalt: Transkript:

That the object of life is self-perfection, the perfection of all immortal souls, that this is the only object of my life, is seen to be correct by the fact alone that every other object is essentially a new object. Therefore, the question whether thou hast done what thou shoudst have done is of immense importance, for the only meaning of thy life is in doing in this short term allowed thee, that which is desired of thee by He who or That which has sent thee into life. Art thou doing the right thing?
Henry Irving - Extract from Shakespeare's Richard III Act 1 Scene 1
Mitwirkende: Irving, Henry [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1989.05.09 [Aufnahmedatum]
Ort: London [Aufnahmeort]
Schlagworte: Literatur ; Theater ; Drama ; Großbritannien
Typ: audio
Inhalt: Richard III Act 1 Scene 1 - Transkript:

Now is the winter of our disconten
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds, that lower’d upon our house,
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums chang’d to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visag’d war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds,
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber,
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not formed [should be "shaped"] for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph:
I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up;
And that so lamely and unfashionable,
That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan - After dinner toast at Little Menlo
Mitwirkende: Sullivan, Arthur [Sprecher/in] , Gourand, George E. [Angebl. Komponist/in]
Datum: 1888.10.05 [Aufnahmedatum]
Ort: London
Schlagworte: Musik ; U-Musik ; Musik ; E-Musik ; Kultur ; Gesellschaft ; Reden und Ansprachen ; Vokalmusik - Operette ; Großbritannien
Typ: audio
Inhalt: Transkript:

Dear Mr. Edison, if my friend Edmund Yates has been a little incoherent it is in consequence of the excellent dinner and good wines that he has drunk. Therefore I think you will excuse him. He has his lucid intervals. For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the result of this evening's experiments: astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record for ever. But all the same I think it is the most wonderful thing that I have ever experienced, and I congratulate you with all my heart on this wonderful discovery. Arthur Sullivan.
Sarah Bernhardt
Extract from Racine's Phédre Act 2 Scene 5
Mitwirkende: Bernhardt, Sarah [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1903 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
(Alice) Ellen Terry
Ophelia's mad scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet
Mitwirkende: Terry, Alice Ellen [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1911.02.21 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Arthur (Ignatius) Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle Speaking
Mitwirkende: Doyle, Arthur Conan <Sir> [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1930.05.14 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Giles Gilbert Scott
Speech at banquet of Royal Institute of British Architects
Mitwirkende: Scott, Giles Gilbert [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1934.11.22 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
John Berry Hobbs
My cricket record
Mitwirkende: Hobbs, John Berry [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1925.08.31 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Suzanne Lenglen
Lawn tennis
Mitwirkende: Lenglen, Suzanne [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1925.07.08 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
(John) Frederick Perry
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships - men's singles final, 1936
Mitwirkende: Perry, John Frederick [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1936.07.03 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Stanley Matthews
How I began
Mitwirkende: Matthews, Stanley [Sprecher/in] , Orton, Roland [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1954.10.30 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Roger (Gilbert) Bannister
The four minute mile
Mitwirkende: Bannister, Roger Gilbert [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1954.05.06 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Louis Blériot
On first cross-channel flight
Mitwirkende: Bleriot, Louis [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1934.02.19 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Malcolm Campbell
My world's recors
Mitwirkende: Campbell, Malcolm [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1931 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Alan J. Cobham
To Australia and back in six munites
Mitwirkende: Cobham, Alan J. [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1926.10.26 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Mildred Mary Petre
How I flew round the world
Mitwirkende: Petre, Mildred Mary [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1931.03.05 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Charles A(ugustus) Lindbergh
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's address before the Press Club at Washington, D.C.
Mitwirkende: Lindbergh, Charles A. [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1927.06.11 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio
Amy Johnson
The story of my flight
Mitwirkende: Johnson, Amy [Sprecher/in]
Datum: 1930.06.09 [Aufnahmedatum]
Typ: audio

Katalogzettel

Titel Voices of History 2 - CD 1
Spieldauer
Urheber/innen und Mitwirkende British Library [Label]
Typ audio
Format DFMP3 [Dateiformat: MP3]
DFWAV [Dateiformat: Broadcast WAV]
CD [Compact Disc]
Signatur 8-23159_K01, 8-23159
Medienart Mediendatei
Gesamtwerk/Reihe Voices of History

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