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WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) / GIELGUD, John: Selected Poetry Readings




Total playing time: 01:49:02

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This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans gives her indomitable performance as Lady Bracknell in...

Disc 1


    The Importance of Being Earnest (more info)
    Composed by: Wright-Denman
    Betty Hardy, reader
    Angela Baddeley, reader
    David Horne, reader
    Roger Delgado, reader
    John Turnbull, reader
    Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, reader
    John Gielgud, reader
    Edith Evans, reader
    Ronald Ward, reader
    Recording date: 1952

  1. Introduction - 0:27
  2. Act I: Algernon: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? - 1:49
  3. Act I: Algernon: How are you, my dear Ernest? - 8:29
  4. Act I: Lady Bracknell: Good afternoon, dear Algernon - 3:34
  5. Act I: Jack: Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax - 3:33
  6. Act I: Lady Bracknell: Mr Worthing! - 6:55
  7. Act I: Algernon: Didn't it go off all right, old boy? - 2:14
  8. Act I: Lane: Miss Fairfax - 1:21
  9. Act I: Algernon: A glass of sherry, Lane - 0:25
  10. Act II: Miss Prism: Cecily, Cecily! - 2:51
  11. Act II: Chasuble: And how are we this morning? - 1:22
  12. Act II: Cecily: What is it Merriman? - 0:45
  13. Act II: Cecily: He does! - 3:56
  14. Act II: Miss Prism: Mr. Worthing! And in black! - 3:33
  15. Act II: Cecily: Uncle Jack! I am pleased to see you back - 0:50
  16. Act II: Jack: Good heavens! Algy - 1:31
  17. Act II: Merriman: I have put Mr Worthing's things in the room next to yours, Sir - 1:13
  18. Act II: Algernon: I must see her before I go... - 7:08
  19. Act II: Cecily: Pray let me introduce myself to you - 6:46
  20. Act II: Gwendolen: Ernest! My own Ernest! - 0:32
  21. Act II: Cecily: Here is Ernest - 6:18

Disc 2


    Go lovely Rose (more info)
    Composed by: Edmund Waller
    John Gielgud, reader

  1. Go lovely Rose - 0:59


  2. Since First I Saw Your Face (more info)
    Composed by: Anon
    John Gielgud, reader

  3. Since First I Saw Your Face - 1:00


  4. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (more info)
    Composed by: Alice Mary Smith
    John Gielgud, reader

  5. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day - 0:57


  6. The Triumph (more info)
    Composed by: Ben Jonson
    John Gielgud, reader

  7. The Triumph - 1:33


  8. The Importance of Being Earnest (more info)
    Composed by: Wright-Denman
    Betty Hardy, reader
    Angela Baddeley, reader
    David Horne, reader
    Roger Delgado, reader
    John Turnbull, reader
    Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, reader
    John Gielgud, reader
    Edith Evans, reader
    Ronald Ward, reader
    Recording date: 1952

  9. Act III: Gwendolen: The fact that they did not follow us at once... - 0:34
  10. Act III: Gwendolen: This dignified silence seems to produce an unpleasant effect - 1:50
  11. Act III: Merriman: Lady Bracknell - 9:55
  12. Act III: Chasuble: Everything is quite ready for the christenings - 1:43
  13. Act III: Miss Prism: I was told you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon - 2:22
  14. Act III: Jack: Is this the hand-bag, Miss Prism? - 5:02


  15. That time of year thou mayest in me behold (more info)
    Composed by: Alice Mary Smith
    John Gielgud, reader

  16. That time of year thou mayest in me behold - 1:03


  17. Ode to the West Wind (more info)
    Composed by: Percy Bysshe Shelley
    John Gielgud, reader

  18. Ode to the West Wind - 4:36


  19. Ozymandias (more info)
    Composed by: Percy Bysshe Shelley
    John Gielgud, reader

  20. Ozymandias - 1:07


  21. Death Be Not Proud (more info)
    Composed by: John Donne
    John Gielgud, reader

  22. Death Be Not Proud - 1:00


  23. We'll go no more a-roving (more info)
    Composed by: Kenrick Anderson Georges
    John Gielgud, reader

  24. We'll go no more a-roving - 0:28


  25. Young and Old (more info)
    Composed by: Charles Kingsley
    John Gielgud, reader

  26. Young and Old - 0:44


  27. A Birthday (more info)
  28. A Birthday - 0:44


  29. Summer Dawn (more info)
    Composed by: William Morris
    John Gielgud, reader

  30. Summer Dawn - 0:57


  31. Break, Break, Break (more info)
    Composed by: Alfred Lord Tennyson
    John Gielgud, reader

  32. Break, Break, Break - 0:58


  33. The Storm is Over (more info)
    Composed by: Robert Seymour Bridges
    John Gielgud, reader

  34. The Storm is Over - 2:45


  35. Richard II: This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle (more info)
    Composed by: Alice Mary Smith
    John Gielgud, reader

  36. Richard II: This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle - 3:13

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