Robert Donat, speaker (1st work) ; Dame Edith Evans, speaker (2nd work) ; Philharmonia Orchestra, Alan Rawsthorne, conductor (1st work)
Texts of the 1st work are 6 poems from Old Possum's book of practical cats.
Durations: 23:30; 21:36.
Recorded in England.
Twenty sonnets. No. 91, Some glory in their birth, some in their skill ; No. 18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ; No. 15, When I consider every thing that grows ; No. 2, When forty winters shall besiege thy brow ; No. 8, Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? ; No. 52, So am I as the rich, whose blessed key ; No. 27, Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed ; No. 61, Is it thy will thy image should keep open ; No. 73, That time of year thou mayst in me behold ; No. 66, Tired with all these, for restful death I cry ; No. 33, Full many a glorious morning have I seen ; No. 57, Being your slave, what should I do but tend ; No. 97, How like a winter hath my absence been ; No. 56, Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said ; No. 104, To me, fair friend, you never can be old ; No. 106, When in the chronicle of wasted time ; No. 23, As an unperfect actor on the stage ; No. 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds ; No. 94, They that have power to hurt and will do none ; No. 29, When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes