| Description | Recordings of Tennyson's poetry, recited by Alfred Tennyson himself and others. Box 1: gramophone records. Box 2: reel to reel. Box 3: cassettes, CDs. Box 4: reel to reel, cassettes, video cassette and DVD.
Box 1 Gramophone Records
The Tennyson Society 1961 Alfred Lord Tennyson reads from his own poems. Side 1 Charge of the Light Brigade; Part of 'Song of Elaine.' Side 2 Part of Charge of the Heavy Brigade; Part of The Northern Farmer.' Part of Come into the Garden Maud.' Introduced by Sir Charles Tennyson CMG Insert of words included. Speed 33 1/3 diameter: 17.5cm.
The Tennyson Society 1969. Alfred Lord Tennyson reads from his own poems. Side 1 Charge of the Light Brigade; Part of 'Song of Elaine. Side 2 Part of Charge of the Heavy Brigade; Part of The Northern Farmer.' Part of Come into the Garden Maud.' Introduced by Sir Charles Tennyson CMG Insert of words included. Speed 33 1/3 diameter: 17.2cm. JEF/TD 6593. 4 copies. Only one with words included.
Emidisc recording blank copy of above.
The BBC Lib No 18941 Alfred Lord Tennyson Reading His Own Poems. 1. The Charge of the Light Brigade. Stanzass 2-5. 2. The Northern Farmer - New Style. Stanzas 9-11. Recorded at his home, Farringford, IOW. On 15 May 1890 by Col Jourand & Mr Stiegler agents of Thomas Edison. d25cm. No sleeve. One significant scratch.
The BBC Lib No 18943. Alfred Lord Tennyson Reading His Own Poems. 1. The Northern Farmer - New Style. Stanzas 2-7. 2. Maud Part 1, stanza 22, verses 10-11. . Recorded at his home, Farringford, IOW. On 15 May 1890 by Col Jourand & Mr Stiegler agents of Thomas Edison. d25cm. (In pencil by Maud 'fair')
The BBC Lib No 18944. Alfred Lord Tennyson Reading His Own Poems. The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, at Balaclava. Stanzas, 1-3. Recorded at his home, Farringford, IOW. On 15 May 1890 by Col Jourand & Mr Stiegler agents of Thomas Edison. On sleeve 'BBC Recorded Programmes Library.' D 25cm. 2 minutes 40 seconds.
One empty card-reinforced envelope from Craighall Recording Studios, 68 Craighall Road, Edinburgh 6. Addressed to R F Smith FLA Tennyson Research Centre, City Library, Free School Lane, Lincoln. Nd.
The British Council. Sent at the request of Sir Charles Tennyson with the compliments of Recorded Sound Department. Albion House 59 New Oxford Street, London WC1. Record Numbers 3,4,5,6. 33 1/3 rpm. d32cm No information on reciter or recital.
Record number 3: Typed insert. Side 1 First Band: Wages; The Voice and the peak; Doubt and prayer; The silent voices; God and the Universe; Crossing the Bar. 2nd Band: In the valley of Cautere[t]z; In the garden at Swains[t]on; Frater atque vale; To Virgil. Side 2. First Band: The Lady of Shalott. 2nd Band : Come into the garden, Maud; O that 'twere possible.
Record number 4: Typed insert. Side 1. First Band: The Lotos Eaters. 2nd Band: Tithonus. Side 2 Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington.
Record number 5: Typed insert. Side 1: The Revenge; The splendour falls; Tears, idle tears; Ask me no more; Now sleeps the crimson petal. Side 2 1st Band: Break, break, break. 2nd Band: A spirit haunts the year's last hours; The Dying Swan. 3rd Band: Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere; The poet's song; The Churchwarden.
Record number 5: Typed insert. Side 1: Band 1: The vision of sin; Band 2: Morte d'#Arthur, The Epic. Side 2: Morte d'Arthur.
Eight copied discs relating to the content of the British Council records above, but also including St Simeon Stylites, Northern Cobbler.
Interview with Miss Edith Thompson of Caistor, Step-daughter of Mrs Andrews, Housekeeper of Alfred and Emily Tennyson. Recorded 16th July 1964. Emidisc In sleeve marked 'Magnegraph Recording Co, Ltd'. 32cm. two copies
Freedom of the City Ceremony to Lord Tennyson 4th July 1964. Two sides. Clarabut Electrical Recording Studios. Dame Alice Street. Bedford. D32cm. 3 copies.
Official Opening of the Tennyson Research Centre 4th July 1964. Clar but discs. 32cm. 2 copies.
Sir Charles Tennyson speaking at De Pauw, USA 1963. Two Magnegraph discs (one 31cm, one 25.5cm) sides numbered 1-4.
Sir Charles Tennyson on Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his family. 1962. Two Magnegraph discs sides numbered 1-4.
Sir Charles Tennyson reading dialect poem. Northern Farmer (old style) Northern Farmer (new style) (written in ballpoint). Emidisc recording blank. 26.5cm.
Emidisc in Magnegraph sleeve. In pencil on one side: 'Cobbler. (Long). Other side: 'Churchwarden. Good.' 26.5cm.
Dame Peggy Ashcroft reading Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott.' Emidisc recording blank. 25.5cm
Three Poems in Lincolnshire Dialect by Alfred Tennyson. The churchwarden and the curate, Owd Roa, The Northern Cobbler. Read by Edward Campion. 1969. Published by Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts. Produced in collaboration with the Tennyson Society. 33 1/3 rpm 25.5cm. Three copies.
Two Poems in Lincolnshire Dialect by Alfred Tennyson. The Village Wife. The Spinster's Sweet Arts. Read by Edith Burgess. 1970. Two copies and two empty sleeves.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Portrait of a Poet. BBC Study Record. John Betjeman introduces poems by ALT and reminiscences by the poet's grandson [Sir Charles Tennyson]. Broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 12th February 1970 and produced by Hallam Tennyson, Assistant Head of Drama (Radio) with the co-operation fo the Tennyson Society. (Includes readings by Betjeman, C Day Lewis, Jill Balcon, Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Donat and John Geilgud, Stephen Murray, Edward Campion, Sybil Thorndike. Three copies. 31cm
Tennyson. Part of Argo'sThe English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats. Recorded in association with The British Council and Oxford University Press. Two discs with readings by Tony Church, Frank Duncan, Denis McCarthy, Margaretts Scott, Gary Watson, Michael Hordern and David King. 31cm.
Alfred Tennyson. Two Poems in Lincolnshire Dialect. Read by Edward Campion. Presented by the Lincolnshire Association. 1. The Northern Farmer, Old Style. 2. The Northern Farmer, New Style. 1969. Four copies. 331/3 rpm. Mono. long-playing record. record manufactured by Craighall Recording Studios.
Box 2: Reel to Reel:
One reel. Labelled 'Copies of brown wax cylinders recorded May 15th 1890 at Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight a) the Princess: The splendour falls on castle walls; b) The Charge of the Light Brigade' extract. By Alfred Lord Tennyson. Speed 7 1/2 ips.'
Two reels recordings of Sir Charles Tennyson. (donated by Ray Carroll.)
One reel . Side 2 includes BBC announcing John Gielgud reading from In Memoriam. (donated by Ray Carroll.)
One reel . Carlton Hobbs reads Tithonus; Ulysses. (donated by Ray Carroll.)
One reel. Tape of readings of selected poems, similar to argo LPs. (donated by Ray Carroll.)
Box 3: Cassettes, CDs.
Cassettes: ALT reads his own poems. Tennyson Society with CRS Records, 1990 (CR 9000); Poems of ALT read by Patrick O'Shaugnessy, 1989. (CR 8900) 5 copies. Tennyson Dialect Poems read by Bill Baker, 2000 (CRS TEN3). 3 copies Reminiscences of AT by Sir Charles Tennyson. Tennyson with Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson. Radio Lincolnshire: ALT A Lincolnshire Life 6 September 1981 produced by Nikke Clark. 2 copies. Vernon Scannell on Tennyson, Radio 3 1984. Tennyson: Five Dialect Poems, Anon. Edward Lear's Nonsense Single by John Webster and Brindleband (PACAS 5) A Critical Forum: A Lecture on Tennyson by J R Watson. Ulysses set to music by Neil Branson.
CDs: Tennyson Today: Double CD produced by Tennyson Society 2005. 2 copies. Tennyson Poems in Lincolnshire Dialect read by Edward Campion and Edith Burgess, 2009. SLHA Cantoris Records. Enoch Arden narrated by Nicholas Garrett accompanied by Peter Hewitt on the piano playing Richard Strauss, 1996. Litmus. 2 copies. Enoch Arden translated by Leo Gantelet, narrated by Alain Carre accompanied by Maureen Bothuyne playing Richard Strauss. 1993. Enoch Arden by Richard Strauss recited by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Box 4: Reel to reel. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam by KW Gransden and H Tennyson. 2 copies, one mistakenly credited to Dr John Sutherland and Dr Keith Walker. Reminiscences of Alfred Tennyson by Sir Charles Tennyson. Cassettes: Tennyson's In Memoriam by KW Gransden and H Tennyson, Audio Learning, ELA 013. . Alfred Lord Tennyson by John Dixon Hunt and David Palmer, Sussex Tapes A22. Tennyson: an anniversary celebration of poems; selected, read and produced by Chris Rickards, 1992. Video cassette: The Circle of the Hills. PA Video Communications 1992. 2 copies. Tennyson Country Copy no 2 5158. Lincolnshire Educational TV, Bishop Grossteste College. Move Over, Darling starring Doris Day and James Garner, 1963. Tennyson's In Memoriam. BBC Enterprises. Grandad Video Cassette: no information. DVDs: The Circle of the Hills. PA Video Communications 1992. 3 copies. The Lady of Shalott. WAG Screen and Crow's Eye Productions. 2009. Ealing Studios: San Demetrio, London.
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