1950s
The Lady’s Not For Burning
Burton as Richard. The cast of the original New York production as directed by John Gielgud.
- Ref:
- 1LP0169483 BD 1 DECCA
- Writer:
- Christopher Fry
- Company:
Under Milk Wood
Burton as First Voice. Directed by Douglas Cleverdon.
- Ref:
- 29E ARGO SW 501/2 01 ARGO
- 29E ARGORG21/11 BD 1
- Writer:
- Dylan Thomas
- Company:
Homage to Dylan Thomas
Burton recites three poems by Thomas.
- Ref:
- 2LP0033617
- Writer:
- Dylan Thomas
- Company:
- ARGO RG 29
Track listing
Poem in October
Ref: 2LP0033617 S 1 BD 4
The hunchback in the Park
Ref: 2LP0033617 S 1 BD 3
Fern Hill
Ref: 2LP0033617 S 2 BD 2
Richard Burton reads 15 poems by Dylan Thomas
This recording includes Fern Hill, In my craft or sullen Art and Lament.
- Ref:
- 1LP0054937
- Writer:
- Dylan Thomas Fry
- Company:
- ARGO SW 503
Track listing
Lie still, sleep becalmed
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 7
The hand that signed the paper
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 1 BD 4
A Winter’s Tale
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 1 BD 3
And death shall have no dominion
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 10
Ballad of the Long-legged Bait
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 1 BD 5
Before I knocked
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 4
Deaths and Entrances
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 3
Do not go gentle in that good night
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 8
The force that through the green fuse
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 1
The hunchback in the park
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 1 BD 2
Fern Hill
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 2
I see the boys of summer
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 5
In my craft or sullen art
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 1 BD 1
Lament
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 6
Poem in October
Ref: 1LP0054937 S 2 BD 9
The Love Poems of John Donne
Burton recites 20 poems by Donne.
- Ref:
- 1CA0000951
- Writer:
- John Donne
- Company:
- COLLINS/CAEDMON
- CAEDMON 1141
Track listing
A Nocturnall upon S Lucies Day
John Donne Ref: 1CA0000951 D1 S1 BD1 COLLINS/CAEDMON
The Apparition
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S2 BD2 HARPER COLLINS
A Valediction – forbidding mourning
John Donne Ref: 1CA0000951 D1 S1 BD3 COLLINS/CAEDMON
The Extasie
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S2 BD4 HARPER COLLINS
The Apparition
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S2 BD2 HARPER COLLINS
The Funerall
John Donne Ref: 1CA0000951 D1 S1 BD5 COLLINS/CAEDMON
The Relique
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S2 BD6 HARPER COLLINS
Elegy I, Jealosie
John Donne Ref: 1CA0000951 D1 S1 BD7 COLLINS/CAEDMON
Elegy III, The Change
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S2 BD8 HARPER COLLINS
Elegy VII, Natures Lay Ideot
John Donne Ref: 1CA0000951 D1 S1 BD7 COLLINS/CAEDMON
The Good-Morrow
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S2 BD8 HARPER COLLINS
‘Goe and catche a falling starre’
(song) John Donne Ref: 1CA0000951 D1 S1 BD9 COLLINS/CAEDMON
The Rising Sun
John Donne Ref: CA0010477 D1 S1 BD1 HARPER COLLINS
The Canonization
John Donne Ref: CA0010477 D1 S1 BD3 HARPER COLLINS
The Triple Fool
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S1 BD5 HARPER COLLINS
‘Sweetest Love, I do not goe’
(song) John Donne Ref: 1CA0000951 D1 S2 BD6 COLLINS/CAEDMON
The Legacie
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S1 BD7 HARPER COLLINS
The Feaver
John Donne Ref: 1CA0000951 D1 S2 BD8 COLLINS/CAEDMON
The Anniversarie
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S1 BD9 HARPER COLLINS
The Flea
John Donne Ref: 11CA0000951 D1 S2 BD10 COLLINS/CAEDMON
The Curse
John Donne Ref: 1CA0010477 D1 S1 BD11 HARPER COLLINS
1960s
Camelot
From the 1960 Broadway production with the orchestra conducted by Franz Allers.
- Ref:
- 1LP0185120
- Writer:
- Christopher
- Company:
- COLLINS
Track listing
‘I wonder what the king is doing tonight’
Ref: 1LP0185210 5 CBS
‘How to handle a woman’
Ref: 1LP0185210 8 CBS
‘Camelot’
Ref: 1LP0185210 13 CBS
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A film version of the magical play performed using animated pantomime puppetry. While most of the Shakespearian text is abandoned, Burton provides a voiceover, quoting and commenting from the original play.
- Ref:
- Writer:
- Jiri Trnka, Jiri Brdecka, Howard Sackler
- Company:
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Burton as George.
- Ref:
- 1LP0146250 2 WARNER
- Writer:
- Edward Albee
- Company:
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Burton as George. Extracts of speech from the film with the orchestra conducted by Alex North.
- Ref:
- 1LP0146250
- Writer:
- Edward Albee
- Company:
- WARNER W 1656
Henry V
Burton as Henry V. An abridged version directed by John Hale.
- Ref:
- 1LP0107673 LIVING
- SHAKESPEARE 1LP0107673
- OLDBOURNE PRESS DEOB 5AM
- Writer:
- William Shakespeare
- Company:
Hamlet
Burton as Hamlet. Famous scenes from the 1964 Broadway production performed at the Lunnt-Fontanne Theatre, New York as directed by John Gielgud.
- Ref:
- 1LP0185404
- Writer:
- William Shakespeare
- Company:
- CBS BRG 72259
Hamlet
Burton as Hamlet. The 1964 Broadway production performed at the Lunnt-Fontanne Theatre, New York as directed by John Gielgud with Burton as Hamlet.
- Ref:
- 1LP0184523
- Writer:
- William Shakespeare
- Company:
- COLUMBIA DS 6611-6614
Becket
Burton as Becket with highlights from the film based on the play by Jean Anouilh. The screenplay is by Edward Anhalt and music by Laurence Rosenthal.
- Ref:
- 1LP0194347
- Writer:
- Edward Anouilh
- Company:
Zulu
The film soundtrack with Burton as the narrator and John Barry conducting the orchestra.
- Ref:
- 1LP0146250
- Writer:
- Edward Albee
- Company:
- WARNER W 1656
Track listing
‘Isandhiwana 1879’
Ref: 2LP0051751 7 EMBER
‘Men of Harlech’
Ref: 2LP0051751 9 EMBER
Doctor Faustus
Burton recites extracts from Marlowe’s play.
- Ref:
- 1LP0185094
- Writer:
- Christopher Marlowe
- Company:
- CBS BPG 63189
The Taming of the Shrew
Burton as Petuchio. Dialogue from the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
- Ref:
- 1LP0194359
- Writer:
- William Shakespeare
- Company:
- RCA Victor, Victor VDM 117
1970s
The World of Dylan Thomas
Burton is one voice amongst many on this recording. He reads And death shall have no domination and Under Milk Wood.
- Ref:
- NA
- Writer:
- Dylan Thomas
- Company:
Track listing
Under Milk Wood
Extracts from Ref: 29E ARGOPA/A166 S 1 BD 3
The Little Prince
Described as ‘Burtons Forgotten Masterpiece’ by Neil Fletcher of the British Weekly and ‘One of the most treasurable audio recording ever made’ by Los Angeles Times writer Lynne Heffley.
- Ref:
- NA
- Writer:
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Company:
- rdkRecords
Grammy Award Winner
Best Children’s Recording
Equus
The film soundtrack.
- Ref:
- 1CD0137704
- Writer:
- Peter Shaffer
- Company:
- RYKO RCD 10726
The War of the Worlds
Burton as the journalist. The music is written and conducted by Jeff Wayne.
- Ref:
- 1CD0000492
- Writer:
- Jeff Wayne
- Company:
- CBS CD 96000
The War of the Worlds
Highlights.
- Ref:
- 1LP0018279
- Writer:
- Jeff Wayne
- Company:
- CBS 32356
A Personal Anthology
Burton recites 27 poems by various poets including Donne, Graves, Ralegh and Thomas.
- Ref:
- 1LP0055026
- Writer:
- Various
- Company:
- ARGO ZDSW 714
Track listing
The Lonely Farmer
R. S. Thomas Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 2 C 2 ARGO
The Leaden Echo and the golden echo
Gerard Manley Hopkins Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 1 ARGO
The boy with a Cart
(extract) Christopher Fry Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 2 ARGO
The Good-Morrow
John Donne Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 3 ARGO
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 4 C 1 ARGO
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Ralegh Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 4 C 2 ARGO
‘Goe and catche a falling starre’
(song) John Donne Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 5 C 1 ARGO
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
Ernest Dowson Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 5 C 2 ARGO
Yasmin, a ghazal
James Elroy Flecker Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 5 C 3 ARGO
Under Milk Wood
(extract) Dylan Thomas Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 6 ARGO
Welsh Incident
Robert Graves Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 7 ARGO
Exequy on His Wife
Henry King Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 8 C 1 ARGO
Lament for the makers
William Dunbar Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD C 2 ARGO
The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
Sir Walter Ralegh Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 9 ARGO
Desiderata
Anon Ref: 1LP0055026 S 1 BD 10 ARGO
Adlestrop
Edward Thomas Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 1 C 1 ARGO
Autumn
John Clare Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 1 C 2 ARGO
Priest and Peasant
R. S. Thomas Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 2 C 1 ARGO
Richard II
(Act V, scene I) William Shakespeare Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 3 ARGO
I. M Walter Ramsden
Sir John Betjeman Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 4 C 1 ARGO
A few late chrysanthemums
Sir John Betjeman Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 C 2 ARGO
A Hymne to God the Father
John Donne Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 5 ARGO
At the earth’s imagined corners
John Donne Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 6 ARGO
Elegy (for his father)
Dylan Thomas Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 7 ARGO
Death, be not proud
John Donne Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 8 ARGO
The Hound of Heaven
Francis Thompson Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 9 ARGO
The Tempest
(Act V, scene I)
William Shakespeare Ref: 1LP0055026 S 2 BD 10 ARGO
1980s/90s
Your favourite poems
Burton recites his choice.
- Ref:
- 1CA0018155
- Writer:
- Dylan Thomas
- Company:
- ARGOSAY 18
Track listing
Welsh Incident
Robert Graves Ref: 1CA0018155 S 4 C 17
The Rime of the Mariner
(extracts) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ref: 1CA0018155 S 2 C 4
‘Naming of parts’
(extract from Lessons of the War) Henry Reed Ref: 1CA0018155 S 4 C 16
And death shall have no dominion
Dylan Thomas Ref: 1CA0018155 S 3 C 16
Burton at the BBC
BBC radio collection.
- Ref:
- BBC ZBBC 1756
- Writer:
- Company: