Richardson,Ralph - Theater Royal: American Classic Drama, Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Four classic dramas from the pens of J B Priestley, William Makepeace Thackeray and Laurence Sterne. These episodes of Theater Royal were first broadcast in 1952-3. This was the only radio series in which Laurence Olivier took part and these vintage adaptations find new life with each new generation of fans. In this set, Sir Ralph Richardson leads in three episodes, with Margaret Lockwood starring as 'Becky Sharpe', with a top (anonymous) supporting cast selected by the BBC.

The compositions contained in this allow us to become familiar with the most significant and compelling chamber music scores composed on texts by Dante between the 19th and the 20th centuries. The primary literary source is the Divine Comedy, especially the Inferno with it's characters whose worldly events were horribly and romantically overwhelming. The other work whose verses have been put to music is Vita nova, a middle way between poetry and prose, that is the emotional obsession of an adolescent for the stylized figure of a woman his own age.

Four classic dramas from the pens of H G Wells, Herman Melville and Bret Harte. These episodes of Theater Royal were first broadcast in 1952-3. This was the only radio series in which Laurence Olivier took part and these vintage adaptations find new life with each new generation of fans. Olivier leads in all four episodes of this set, with a top (anonymous) supporting cast selected by the BBC.