FINDING AID
Section D
A list of spoken word and music recordings on traditional media.
TYPE
TITLE
PUBLISHED
TYPE
MEDIA
DATE
REF
ISBN
COUNTRY
DESCRIPTION
CONTENTS
AudioBook
I, Claudius
CSA Telltapes
CD
2007
TT4CD 231
978-1906147020
UK
By Robert Graves, Abridged by Sarah Kilgariff, Produced by Victoria Williams, Read by Derek Jacobi
Abridged version of I, CLAUDIUS
AudioBook
Goodbye to All That
CSA Telltapes
CD
2007
TT4CD 232
978-1906147037
UK
By Robert Graves, Abridged by Neville Teller, Produced by Penelope Reid, Read by Martin Jarvis - 4 CDs (5hrs)
Abridged version of GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
AudioBook
Claudius the God
CSA Telltapes
CD
2009
TT4CD 248
978-1906147389
UK
By Robert Graves, Abridged by ..., Produced by ..., Read by Derek Jacobi
Abridged version of CLAUDIUS THE GOD
AudioBook
Lawrence and the Arabs
Blackstone Audio Books
CD
2008
978-1433250019
USA
Robert Graves, Read by Joseph Porter. Unabridged
Unabridged LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS
AudioBook
Lawrence and the Arabs
Blackstone Audio Books
Tape
1994
Robert Graves, Read by Joseph Porter. Unabridged 10 cassettes
Unabridged LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS
AudioBook
I, Claudius
Blackstone Audio Books
Tape
1993
USA
Robert Graves
AudioBook
Claudius the God
Blackstone Audio Books
Tape
1993
USA
Robert Graves
AudioBook
Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars
Penguin Highbridge
Tape
1993
978-0453008341
Translated by Robert Graves - Classics on Cassette - Read by Fritz Weaver.
Abridged (two sound cassettes)
AudioBook
I, Claudius
Isis
Tape
1992
UK
AudioBook
Claudius the God
Isis
Tape
1986
UK
AudioBook
Goodbye to All That (1957)
Isis
Tape
1986
UK
Read by Sean Barrett
AudioBook
The Anger of Achilles
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2446
USA
No details
AudioBook
Claudus the God
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
3271
USA
Parts A & B
AudioBook
Collected Short Stories
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
3148
USA
No details
AudioBook
Count Belisarius
Books on Tape
Tape
1988
2321
USA
Read by Bill Kelsey Parts A & B Thirteen audio tape cassettes
AudioBook
Goodbye to All That
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
1439
USA
No details
AudioBook
Greek Myths Vol 1
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2916
USA
No details
AudioBook
Greek Myths Vol 2
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
3065
USA
No details
AudioBook
Homer's Daughter
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
1979
USA
No details
AudioBook
I, Claudius
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
3160
USA
No details
AudioBook
King Jesus
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2181
USA
Parts A & B
AudioBook
Lawrence and the Arabs
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2413
USA
No details
AudioBook
The Long Weekend
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2336
USA
Read by Bill Kelsey Parts A & B Thirteen audio tape cassettes
AudioBook
Occupation - Writer
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2951
USA
Read by Richard Brown (10 tapes)
AudioBook
Proceed Sergeant Lamb
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2563
USA
No details
AudioBook
The Real David Copperfield
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
3291
USA
Read by David Case. Thirteen audio tape cassettes
AudioBook
Segeant Lamb of the Ninth
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2565
USA
Read by Bill Kelsey Nine audio tape cassettes
AudioBook
The Siege and Fall of Troy
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
3026
USA
No details
AudioBook
They Hanged My Saintly Billy
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
1903
USA
No details
AudioBook
Watch the North Wind Rise
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2404
USA
No details
AudioBook
The Twelve Caesars
Books on Tape
Tape
1986
2828
USA
Read by David Case. Nine audio tape cassettes
Music
Lauridsen - Nocturnes
Hyperion
Choral
CD
2007
CDA67580
UK
Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor).
Mid-Winter Songs include Graves's: Lament for Pasipha , She tells her love while half asleep , Mid-Winter Waking, Intercession in Late October, Like Snow,
Music
Luaurisden - The Complete Choral Cycles
David Wheatley production
Choral
CD
N/A
N/A
USA
Choral Cross-Ties - Bruce Breowne, Conductor.
Mid-Winter Songs include Graves's: Lament for Pasipha , Like Snow, She tells her love while half asleep , Mid-Winter Waking, Intercession in Late October, ,
Music
A Lost Wold
BCN Records
Voice, Harp, Guitar etc
CD
1996
978-6304136010
USA
Poems by Robert Graves Set to Music, arranged and produced by Jay Ansill,
Songs include: A Song for New Year's Eve, The Far Side of Your Moon, A Lover Since Childhood, Full Moon, One Hard Look, Apples and Water, The Hills of May, A Lost World, A Love Story, Down, Wanton, Down, She Tells Her Love While Half Alseep, Midwinter Wakning, A Jealous Man, Counting the Beats.
Music
Natalie Merchant - Leave your Sleep
Nonesuch Records Inc
Voice, various
CD
2010
522304-1; 522304-2
USA
Poems set to music and sung by Natalie Merchant of such poets as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and Robert Graves into a musical kaleidoscope.
Graves's contribution is Vain and Careless
Music
Avant Slant, (one PLUS I = II?)
Decca Stereo
Jazz Trio
Vinyl
1964
DL75018
USA
THE JOHN BENSON BROOKS TRlO - Graves's contribution is 'Mend Them Fences' (Robert Graves, J.B. Brooks).
Music
El Olivo - Poems by Robert Graves
Drums
Songs
Vinyl
1976
AD 15.001
Spain
Poems by Robert Graves set to music by Ramon Farran, sung by Lucia Graves. LP 12: AD 15.001
Contents: A Lost World, All I Tell You From My Heart, Azul Mediterraneo (by Farran), Deia (by Farran), Olive Tree, Polsimada (by Farran), Seven Fresh Years (aka Song: Seven Fresh Years), The Far Side of Your Moon, The Green-Sailed Vessel, The Promise, Three Words Only
Music
Severn and Somme
SOMM Recordings
Baritone, Piano
CD
SOMMCD 057
UK
Roderick Williams (baritone), Susie Allan (piano). Composer Ian Venables. Includes: Flying Crooked Opus 28/1
Contents: Easter Song Op 16, Flying Crooked Op 28/1, A Kiss Op 15, Midnight Lamentation Op 6
Music
Love's Voice
SOMM Recordings
Tenor, Piano
CD
2007?
SOMMCD 063
UK
Nathan Vale (tenor), Paul Plummer (piano). Composer Ian Venables. Includes Flying Crooked Opus 28/1
Content: At Midnight Op 28/2, Flying Crooked Op 28/1, The Hippo Op 33/6, Venetian Songs Op 22 (aka Love's Voice), Vitae Summa Brevis Op 33/3
MUsic
English Heartland Songs - Lord - Caradon - Gurney - Wickens
Richard Carder Production
Tenor/Sprano/baritone/Piano
2009
REP S101
UK
Incluides 3 settings of Graves poems by Ivor Gurney
Content by Graves: Nine of the Clock, Goodnight to to Meadow, Star-Talk. Joanna Morton soprano Anna Roberts Piano
Poetry
The Spoken Word: Robert Graves
British Library
Spoken Word
CD
2009
NSA CD36
978-0712305518
UK
Poems and talk on poetry by Robert Graves, recorded by Graves 1949 to 1970. Produced Richard Fairman from the BBC archives
Seven poems by Robert Graves (broadcast 21 march 1950): Love in Barrenness - The Terraced Valley - Like Snow - Trough Nightmare - To Juan at the Winter Solstice - Song of Blodeuwedd - The White Goddess - The Cool Web - Under the Pot.
A Poet and His Public (broadcast 20 October 1954) : A talk in which Robert Graves considers his relationship with the people to whom his work is offered.
Robert Graves reads and comments on a number of his recent poems (broadcast 27 September 1953): Introduction - With Her Lips Only - Sirocco at Deya - The Straw - The Mark - Dethronement - The Devil at Berry Pomeroy - The Encounter - The Blue-Fly - To Her Majesty the Queen - Leaving the Rest Unsaid.
Robert Graves reading some of his newest poems (broadcast 14 October 1962): Ruby and Amethyst - Recognition - The Meeting - Beware, Madam! - Not at Home - Horizon - Lion Lover - Ibycus in Samos - In Her Praise - A Restless Ghost - Three Songs for the Lute: Truth is Poor Physic - In Her Only Way - Hedges Freaked with Snow.
Now Read On (28 October 1970): Introduction - In the Name of Virtue - Poisoned Day - Semi-Detached - When Love is Not.
Poetry
The Spoken Word: Poets
British Library
Spoken Word
CD
2003
NSA CD13
978-0712305173
UK
Historic Recordings of Poets born in the 19th Century. Compiled from the British Library Sound Archives by Steve Cleary, Richard Fairman, Tony Oakes.
1805 read by Graves
Poetry
The Green-Sailed Vessel
Claddagh Records
Spoken Word
CD
1972
UK
Poems Recorded by Graves 1972. Produced by Joan Allen (Original on 12 LP)
Side One: Introduction - Arrow on the Vane - Gorgon Mask - Casse-Noisette - The Garden - The Green-Sailed Vessel - Serpent s Tail - Until We Both - The Miracle - Testament - Cliff and Wave - Those Blind from Birth - Advice from a Mother - A Reduced Sentence - My Ghost - The Strayed Message - The Hero - Against Witchcraft - Poisoned Day - Point of No Return - Batx ca - Black - Jus Primae Noctis - Turn of the Moon - Work Drafts Side Two: Knobs and Levers - The Virus - Song: Beyond Giving - In the Name of Virtue - What We did Next - Liadan and Curithir - The Broken Girth - The Beds of Grainne and Diarmuid - Song: The Sundial s Lament - Songs sung by Graves: The Praties they are Small - Hannigan s Aunt - Poor Little Jimmy Murphy - My Mother is Killing Me - Jean Baptiste Pourquoi - Mr McKinley - The Lambs on the Green Hills - Us don t come from Wales or Somerset - K chh prawah nei
Poetry
Poetry Reading by Robert Graves
Academy of American Poets
Spoken Word
Tape
1966
USA
Poetry reading by Robert Graves at Hunter College Dec 3, 1966. Introduced by Brian O'Doherty
Poetry
Take My Youth
Talking Tape Company
Spoken Word
Tape
1983?
UK
An Anthology of Poetry from the Great War - Contains poems by Robert Graves. Read by Robert Hardy, Martin Jarvis
Poetry
The Dead Fox Hunter/ Sergeant Major Money
Talking Tape Company
Spoken Word
Tape
1990
UK
Possibly recordings in Take my Youth
Poetry
Robert Graves Reads From His Poetry & The White Goddess
Caedmon
Spoken Word
LP 12
1957
Caedmon TC-1066
USA
D10 Recorded by Graves in London 3 Nov. 1954
Side One: The White Goddess, Chapter I (in part) - The Haunted House - Outlaws - Allie - Love without Hope - What Did I Dream? - The Hills of May - Angry Samson - In Procession - Warning to Children - The Cool Web - Song of Contrariety - The Presence - Side Two: Flying Crooked- Any Honest Housewife -A Jealous Man - The Cloak - Time - Ogres and Pygmies - To Bring the Dead to Life - Like Snow - The Fallen Tower of Siloam - A Love Story - Theseus and Ariadne - To Juan at the Winter Solstice - The Death Room - My Name and I - The Survivor - The Foreboding - CatGoddesses - The Blue-Fly - Sirocco at Deya - Leaving the Rest Unsaid.
Poetry
Robert Graves Reads From His Poetry and The White Goddess
Caedmon
Spoken Word
Tape
1983
CDL 51066 Caedmon
1957, but published June 1985
As Caedmon TC-1066
Poetry
Robert Graves Reads The White Goddess and Selected Poems. [Title is revised from above.]
Caedmon/ HarperCollins Publishers
Spoken Word
Tape
1993
Published 24 August 1993. Remastered in 1993.
As Caedmon TC-1066
Poetry
Robert Graves Reading
Argo Records
Spoken Word
LP 12
1961
Argo RG 191
UK
D11 Robert Graves Reads Selected Poems. Sleeve note by the poet. (Diary 30 April 1959: Argo recording poems at Goldhurst Terrace)
Side One: The Bards - Full Moon - It Was All Very TidyThief - Trudge, Body! - Christmas Robin - The Devil's Advice to Storytellers - William Brazier - Welsh Incident - On Dwelling - To Walk on Hills - The Cuirassiers of the Frontier - The Halls of Bedlam - On Portents - Dawn Bombardment - Side Two: Frightened Men - Language of the Seasons - The Beach - The Villagers and Death - The Persian Version - Two Grotesques: The Lion-Faced Boy - Dr. Newman with the Crooked Pince-Nez - Beauty in Trouble - Your Private Way - Darien - Prometheus - The Face in the Mirror - The Coral Pool - Gratitude for a Nightmare - Friday Night - The Naked and the Nude - Forbidden Words - A Slice of Wedding Cake - Around the Mountain.
Poetry
Contemporary English Literature
Folkways Records
Spoken Word
45 rpm
1962
Folkways FL9888.
UK
D12 Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis Side 2, bands 1-6, are read by Graves.
Graves Contribution: I'm Through with You Forever - In the Wilderness - The Troll's Nosegay - Mike and Mandy - Traveller's Curse - Song: Lift-Boy
Poetry
Contemporary English Literature.
Jupiter
Spoken Word
45 rpm
1962
jep OOC2 (45 rpm).
UK
D13 Side 2, bands 1-6, are read by Graves.
Contents as D12.
Poetry
Robert Graves Reading
Listen Records
Spoken Word
LP 12
1960
UK
D14 Read by Graves (Higginson states: Recorded in London 28 April 1959. - This is the same date Graves has for Argo recording - Check)
Side One: Rocky Acres - Lost Love - An English Wood - The Pier-Glass - Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend - Ulysses - The Succubus - Gardener - Front Door Soliloquy - In Broken Images - On Rising Early - Sea Side - Hell - Down, Wanton, Down! - Nature's Lineaments - The Philosopher - To Evoke Posterity - Certain Mercies - With Her Lips Only - The Reader over My Shoulder - Side Two: Advocates - The Terraced Valley - The Ages of Oath - End of Play - The Great-Grandmother - No More Ghosts - The Shot - The Thieves - To Sleep - Despite and Still - The Oath - Mid-Winter Waking - The Door - From the Embassy - Cry Faugh! - The Mark - The Sea Horse - The Lost Jewel - The Window Sill - Spoils - Call It a Good Marriage - To Calliope.
Poetry
A Little Treasury of Twentieth Century British Poetry, ed. Oscar Williams.
Listen Records
Spoken Word
Vinyl
Colpix PS1002.
D15 - Anthology edited by Oscar Williams
Graves Contribution: An English Wood - Ogres and Pygmies - Nature's Lineaments - A Love Story
Poetry
An Album of Modern Poetry, ed. Oscar Williams
Listen Records
Spoken Word
Vinyl
Gryphon GR902.
D16 Edited by Oscar Williams. An Anthology of Modern Poetry brings together 46 poets reading a total of 78 poems. (2 LPs)
Graves's contribution: The Legs - The Naked and the Nude.
Poetry
The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry.
Caedmon (Harper Collins)
Spoken Word
Vinyl
1954
Caedmon TC0995/TC0995.
D17 Recorded in 1954.Anthology featuring Eliot (The Wasteland), Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Richard Eberhart, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, Yeats, Auden, Edith Sitwell, Dylan Thomas, MacNeice, Robert Graves, Gertrude Stein, Archibald MacLeish, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Empson, Stephen Spender and Conrad Aiken.
Graves's contribution: Poem for My Son (To Juan at the Winter Solstice.)
Poetry
Robert Graves reading: Love respelt: old & new poems.
Columbia Records
Spoken Word
LP 12
1965
Columbia OL 6400
USA
NOTES: Critical notes by Goddard Lieberson and John Simon on container. [DOUGLASS PHONODISC DLdl 233]
Side One: At Best, Poets - The Meeting - She Is No Liar - Expect Nothing - A Last Poem - The Three-Faced - In Time - The Leap - Dazzle of Darkness - Food of the Dead - I Will Write - Bird of Paradise - The Oleaster - Song: Sword and Rose - Endless Pavement - A Measure of Casualness - The Green Castle - Not to Sleep - The Black Goddess - La Mejicana - All I Tell You From My Heart - Double Bass - Judgment of Paris - The Undead - Above the Edge of Doom - Wild Cyclamen - Batxoca - The Snap-Comb Wilderness - Change - Side Two: Black - Between Hyssop and Axe - Gold and Malachite - Ambience - The Vow - The Frog and the Golden Ball - Those Who Came Short - Whole Love - This Holy Month - The Impossible - Iron Palace - True Joy - Tomorrow s Envy of Today - The Hidden Garden - The Wedding - What Will Be, Is - Son Altesse - Everywhere Is Here - Song: The Far Side of Your Moon - Deliverance - Conjunction - Nothing Now Astonishes - Postscript.
Poetry
The Barrow Poets [present] an entertainment of poetry and music.
Argo Records
Spoken Word
Vinyl
1963
Argo RG 360
UK
Contains readings of English and American poems with music, for violin and oboe between sections.
Graves's contribution: A Slide of Wedding Cake
Poetry
The Poet Speaks
Decca Records
Spoken Word
Vinyl
1967
Argo: RG517; Say 60,
UK
Recorded in association with the British Council and the Poetry Room in the Lamont Library of Harvard University. Edited by Peter Orr.
No details
Poetry
Four poets of the 20th century [sound recording] : T.S. Eliot, David Jones, Robert Graves, Philip Larkin reading their own works.
Argo Records
Spoken Word
tape
1985
SAY 414 718-4
UK
Edited by Peter Orr - 2 sound cassettes
No details
Poetry
Four Twentieth Century Poets
Decca Records
Spoken Word
Vinyl
No details
No details
Poetry
ANTHOLOGY. Poetry 1900 to 1965.
Longmans
Spoken Word
LP 12
1967
Longman 34155
UK
Original long-playing record. , Produced to accompany the book of the same title, edited by George MacBeth. The poets are Yeats, Lawrence, Young, Eliot, Muir, Graves, Owen, Empson, Betjeman, Auden, MacNeice, Fuller, Smith, Thomas (D. & R.S.), Douglas, Davie, Middleton, Gunn, Porter, Hughes & Plath. The readers are Patrick Magee, Harvey Hall, Hugh Dickson, George MacBeth, Stevie Smith (reading her own Not Waving but Drowning), Basil Jones, Frances Horovitz & Ted Hughes who reads Lawrence s Hummingbird, Vergissmeinicht by Keith Douglas, and his own Hawk Roosting. Excellent in like sleeve. 12.00
Poetry
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Spoken Arts
Spoken Word
LP 12
1968
SA 965
USA
Unabridged translations of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The first by Edward Fitzgerald read by Robert Speaight, and the second by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah read by Robert Graves.
Side One: Translation by Edward Fitzgerald, read by Robert Speaight. Introduction to the Graves/Shah translation by Omar Ali-Shah. Stanzas 1-17 of the Graves/Shah translation read by Graves. Side Two: Stanzas 18-111 of the Graves/Shah translation read by Graves.
Poetry
Palatin Project
http://www.palatin-project.com
2009
Germany
Electronic Music from Outer Space. Composed by Bernhard Kretz
Graves's contributions are Always, and Friday Night