Word: caedmon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE (Caedmon) is a powerful distillation in sound of the most sustained assault on the senses that Broadway theatergoers have experienced in years. While the mind's eye must do some of the listener's work, the sensation of being imprisoned in a limbo of mad souls is fearsomely convincing. Patrick Magee as Sade, Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday, Ian Richardson as Marat, and the disciplined ensemble players of the Royal Shakespeare Company are, in this...
...MASTER BUILDER (Caedmon). No single drama of Ibsen's is more Freudian, and hence accessible to the modern mind. The play is a situation tragedy, and the symbols bleed. Solness, the artist-builder-husband, is vile in his self-absorption, and pitiable as he watches the tide of his creativity ebb. His wife is stifling and stifled. The young girl Hilde Wangel is Solness' mirage of the second chance, lost youth, lost inspiration, lost love recovered. But life is a role that man cannot rehearse or reverse. Sir Michael Redgrave as Solness thunders, hisses and froths like...
ROMEO AND JULIET (Caedmon) is a strange romance in this recording. Albert Finney, who can be as forceful as TNT, has conceived a Romeo who sounds like a world-weary anti-hero out of Chekhov. Claire Bloom is girlishly gigglish; yet Shakespeare's Juliet is young only in years, and packs a woman's wiles in a woman's body. The lovers are upstaged by the nurse, Dame Edith Evans, a paragon of timing, inflection and character immersion who could teach Finney and Bloom a thing or three about Shakespearean acting...
...ELIOT: THE FAMILY REUNION (3 LPs; Caedmon). Static and awkward to stage with its philosophic asides and Greek choruses, this poetic play is ideal for recording. One of Eliot's last undertakings was to help choose the excellent cast, which perfectly weaves the shadowy modern drama of sin and expiation. Dame Sybil Thorndike is Amy, the steely dowager who has spent 35 years "designing" her son's life. Paul Scofield plays Harry, the restless, half-mad son who bursts asunder the conventional family gathering, and Flora Robson is Agatha, the all-knowing aunt ("When the loop in time...
Jumping on the Hemingway bandwagon, Caedmon Records has just released a record of Hemingway reciting the speech he wrote upon receiving the Nobel Prize, one of the love poems, and a few trivial pieces of self-parody-all in a reedy, nervous voice. But while there are "enough of Papa's poems to fill a book one-half inch thick," according to Mary Hemingway, the rest are unlikely to be published or recorded for many years. "Some of the longest poems are about living people," she says, "and most of them are uncomplimentary, to say the least...