1x Compact Disc in a card sleeve and hand assembled 4 page Booklet

1. Sir Ralph Richardson reading ...And did those feet in ancient time... from Milton by William Blake (from RIB005 ‘The Romantics: The Poetry of William Blake’) 

2. In a Village Churchyard: Sounds of Birds, Bells, Organ and Choir (Field Recording) (from RIB029 ‘Various Artists - For Country Schools’) An aural journey back into an almost lost world of gentle tranquillity and nature in this early 1930s recording made by His Master’s Voice.

3. V C Clinton Baddeley reading Stanzas from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (BBC  Recording) (from a forthcoming release) Gray’s poem, full of reflection and rustic pictorial  imagery was one of many spoken word recordings made by the BBC for educational use. 

4. The Vienna State Opera Orchestra performing “The Dove” from Ottorino Respighi’s The Birds (Suite for small orchestra) 

5. Marais and Miranda with The Pardo Ancient Instrument Ensemble performing The Sheep under the Snow (arranged by Josef Marais) (from a forthcoming edition of ‘...of all the trees that are in the woods...’) 

6. Steam Train travelling through a freshly snow covered countryside as captured by Peter Handford (Winter nights in the Chilterns - December 1961 – Field Recording) (from RIB037 Atmospheric Pictures: Peter Handford’s Steam Railway Recordings Volume Two) 

7. Nelson Olmsted performing The Signalman by Charles Dickens (abridged) (from RIB30 ‘Danse Macabre: Chilling Stories of Horror and the Supernatural’)

8. Steam Train passing through in freezing winter temperatures as captured by Peter Handford (Sunday at 8.22 P.M. at Princess Risborough ‘Castle’ Class 4-6-0 (single chimney) No. 7017 G.J. Churchward - December 1961 – Field Recording) (from RIB037 Atmospheric Pictures: Peter Handford’s Steam Railway Recordings Volume Two)

9. Glyn Houston with The Sinfonia of London perform “ghostly voices” from A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (from RIB056 ‘Various Artists - A Festive Fantasia’) 

10. Antonio Janigro, Zagreb Soloists Ensemble performs the Toy Symphony (first movement) attributed to Haydn (from the forthcoming release ‘Various – Snow in the Suburbs’)

11. Pauline Letts reading The Fairies by William Allingham (from RIB029 ‘Various Artists - For Country Schools’) 

12. Raven calling at Atlantic Ocean as captured by Ludwig Koch (BBC Recording) (from a forthcoming release)

13. Thomas Mitchell reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Abridged Lyrical Ballads version) (2023 Remaster – originally appeared on RIB15 ‘A Treasury of Poetry’)

14. Spin, Spin – Victorian Regina Music Box from the Rita Ford Collection

15. Alec Guinness (with Osian Ellis) performing Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (from RIB058 ‘The Alec Guinness Collection: A Man Who Could Work Miracles’) 

16. The Gene Lowell Chorus performing the Winter Song (Richard Hovey and Frederic Field Bullard)

17. Boris Karloff performing an excerpt from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

18. The Cricketone Chorus performing ‘Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow’ from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

19. Boris Karloff performing an excerpt from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (from RIB044 Boris Karloff – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Drop Dead: An Exercise in Horror) 

20. John Langstaff performing Skin and Bones (The Ghost Song) (Trad., arranged John Langstaff) (from a forthcoming release) 

21. Anew McMaster performs Scrooge in the churchyard from ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens (from RIB053 ‘Charles Dickens’ Fireside Tales 3’)

22. Tony Britton performs Blow the Candles Out (Trad.) (from RIB049 ‘We Lay my Love and I beneath a Weeping Willow Waly: Songs, Ballads, Love Lyrics & Verse of Metaphysical Folk’)

Playing Time: 79:29 minutes (approx.)

Please note that at times the sound quality might be noticeably reflective of the age and technical limitations of the recordings.

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