AN OSCAR WILDE DISCOGRAPHY :

THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

 

Compiled with commentary by Tine Englebert with additions by Danielle Guérin, Lucia Krämer, Aoife Leahy and David Rose.

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol, as ‘Chacun de nous tue ce qu’il aime’

French version by Léo Ferré, interpreted by Michèle Arnaud

Chacun de nous tue ce qu'il aime - Sous le Pont Mirabeau - La Rue s'allume - La Vie d'artiste (Léo Ferré - F. Claude)

Support : 45 Tours;  Editeur : Ducretet Thomson 460 V 064; Sortie : 1955

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Excerpts read by Frank Duncan:

Late Victorian poetry.  Poets: Wilde, Thomson, Dowson, Johnson, Stevenson, M. Coleridge, Bridges, F. Thompson, Housman read by Frank Duncan, Ian Holm, David King.  Series: ‘The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats’.  Decca / Argo ARG 3095, PLP 1052 (33 r.p.m.): 1968.

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Celtic poets [sound recording] / selected by Keith Winston

Publication informationhttp://catalog.tempe.gov:90/record=b1247027~S1

Falls Church, VA : Sound Room Publishers, 2001.

Edition

[Compact disc]. Also available as an audiobook in MP3 format

Description

2 sound discs (120 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 Index inserts

Note

An unabridged audio book

Performer

Read by Ralph Cosham

Note

CD 1: Irish poets, 29 poems ; CD 2 Scottish and Welsh poets, 18 poems

Featuring

Jonathan Swift, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and others


Track 1: Description of an Irish feast / Jonathan Swift – track 2: Wearing of the Green – track 3: Bold Phelim Brady, the Bard of Armagh – track 4: Humors of Donnybrook Fair – track 5: Irishman's christening – track 6: Longford legend – track 7: Agricultural Irish girl – track 8: Brian O'Linn – track 9: Killyburn Brae – track 10: Maid that sold her barley – track 11: I know where I am going – track 12: I want to be married and cannot tell how – track 13: Johnny, I hardly knew ye – track 14: Mrs. McGrath – track 15: Deserted village / Oliver Goldsmith –track 16: O'Hussey's ode to the Maguire / James Clarence Mangan – track 17: Harp that once through Tara's Halls ; track 18: At the mid hour of night ; track 19: All that's bright must fade / Thomas Moore – track 20: From ODE / Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy – track 21: Dedication / Patrick MacGill – track 22: From The Ballad of Reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde – track 23: To the rose upon the rood of time ; track 24: Lake Isle of Innisfree ; track 25: Sorrow of love ; track 26: When you are old ; track 27: Wild swans at Coole ; track 28 Prayer for my daughter ; track 29: Circus animals' ; desertion / William Butler Yeats.

‘This is a collection of poems, old and modern, by an assortment of Irish, Scottish and Welsh poets. Many of the poems describe earlier culture and political concerns and many deal with love of the homeland. Some are by well-known poets and some are by authors who have long faded into obscurity.  Together they represent a fascinating fabric of a rich culture.’–Container.

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Bramble Lane – Patrick Shortall

A local poet in Dublin, Patrick ‘Pat’ Shortall, has produced a CD of his poems entitled ‘Bramble Lane’. Like many Dubliners, Shortall has a deep affection for Oscar Wilde and has included his ‘Wilde Tribute Poem – Prison Number C.33’ on the CD. Each of the twelve poems in ‘Bramble Lane’ is read out by an appropriate voice artist. For the Wilde tribute, a poem that examines Wilde’s experiences during his incarceration in Reading Gaol, Shortall chose the Trinity College educated Shane O’ Reilly.  The CD was recorded at Panchord Studios and manufactured by Trend Digital Media.

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Die Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading

Read by OTTO CLEMENS

Audio CD [Audiobook]
Verlag: Hörsturz (11. Oktober 2004)
Sprache: Deutsch
ISBN-10: 3708500938
ISBN-13: 978-3708500935

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Kinski spricht Werke der Weltliteratur: Oscar Wilde 2

Wien 1961. Berlin 2003

Katalog-Nummer: 0602498003978

Track & Title

Artikel-Nummer: UNI800397

1      Der Selbstsüchtige Riese Teil 1

Genre: Hörbuch

2      Der Selbstsüchtige Riese Teil 2

Label: Deutsche Grammophon (Literatur)

3      Die Nachtigall und die Rose Teil 1

Vertrieb: Universal Music GmbH

4      Die Nachtigall und die Rose Teil 2

Erscheinungsdatum (Info): 29.09.2003

5      Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading Teil 1

Anzahl / Medium: 1 CD

 6     Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading Teil 2

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Jacques Ibert – La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading

Eyebrows would have been raised at the Opéra Comique in 1937 at the notion of a ballet set in Reading Gaol, not to mention at the author of the poem that inspired the ballet and the background of his personal experiences as a convict. The way Jacques Ibert understood and transmitted Oscar Wilde’s humanitarian message with its moving account of the harsh prison atmosphere, dominated by the story of a man who murdered his beloved, astonished and impressed that first audience against all expectation.

Ibert originally conceived La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading as a symphonic poem, writing the work between 1920 and 1922. The first performance took place on 22nd October 1922 at the Paris Concerts Colonne, when it was conducted by Gabriel Pierné, to whom it is dedicated.

Ibert's first symphonic work, though still influenced by Debussy, Ravel and Dukas, is an extremely mature and powerful score, masterly in its orchestration. Inform the work is a triptych, built on modal themes. In the first part the cor anglais introduces the main theme, then developed through four sections. The prison and its inhabitants are described, with counterpoint leading to variations of a more expansive and urgent motif, to be identified with the murderer's anguished desires and memories. An eerie interlude for clarinet, harp and celesta, with transparent string writing, suggests the ‘little tent of blue’ in Wilde's poem, and this new motif is developed together with the existing material into a dramatic climax, never losing, here as elsewhere, a predominantly lyrical character. The second part is marked by madness and terror. A Sarabande over a seven-beat rhythm is first developed from a mysterious to an increasingly dramatic mood, strengthened through tremoli of horror, glissandi, harmonics and col legno effects into an almost despairing 6/8 Gagliarde, using all the forces of the orchestra. The third part can be considered an epilogue, in which the dark atmosphere of the prison is brought again to a climax, an unceasing cry of pity proclaimed by the whole orchestra. It dissolves into an impressionistic mood, as at the beginning, in which feelings of hope for human pity in this world can eventually be heard in the peaceful bass clarinet and cor anglais reminiscences of the second motif. The Ballade is scored for three flutes, double wood-wind with cor anglais, bass clarinet and double bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, two harps and strings, with a large percussion section.

Jacques IBERT: La Ballade de la Geole / Trois Pièces de Ballet / Suite Elisabethaine .  Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adriano,, Conductor.  Marco Polo 8.223508. Track listing: La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading : Part 1, 00:10:53 ; Part 2, 00:07:52 ; Part 3, 00:04:46

 

Jacques IBERT - Persée et Andromède, Las Ballade de la Geôle de Reading, Sarabande pour Dulcinée

On CD AVIE AV 0008:
La ballade de la geôle de Reading, for orchestra
Composed by
Jacques Ibert
Performed by
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by
Jan Latham-Koenig

Also Persée et Andromède, opera in 2 acts ; Don Quichotte, film score Sarabande pour Dulcinée

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Giovanna Marini - La ballata del carcere di Reading

Translation and adaptation Elio De Capitani and Umberto Orsini.  Music Giovanna Marini.  Curato da: De Capitani E.  Editore: Nota.  Con CD Audio Data di Pubblicazione: 2006.  ISBN: 8861630243.  ISBN-13: 9788861630246.  Pagine: 60 p.; ill.; rilegato

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Jeanne Moreau - Each Man Kills The Things He Loves 
(from the movie Querelle – Rainer Maria Fassbinder)

Dureco 88054 - LP (1982) – Germany; Jupiter 6.25306 AP – LP (1982) – Germany; Prudence 398.6509.2 – CD (1995) – Germany; RCA Records PL 37697 – LP

Track listing: Total Duration: 00:37:08

1. 

Side 1
The Tears Of A Lady
(02:16)
Peer Raben

8. 

Side 2
A Ship For The Bandits
(03:25)
Peer Raben

2. 

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (03:30)
Peer Raben

9. 

The Self-Extradition (03:28)
Peer Raben

3. 

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (02:50)
Peer Raben - vocal: Jeanne Moreau

10. 

Young And Joyful Bandit (02:31)
Peer Raben - vocal: Günther Kaufmann

4. 

Men At Peace (03:15)
Peer Raben

11. 

With A Bitter Look (06:18)
Peer Raben

5. 

Men Are At Peace (03:15)
Peer Raben - vocal: Jeanne Moreau

12. 

The Ship And The Seaman (02:38)
Peer Raben

6. 

Sailor's Accordeon (02:12)
Peer Raben

 

7. 

The Cross-Road (01:30)
Peer Raben

 

 

 

 

Querelle – Soundtrack (1982) also:

 

DRG Records SL 9606

 

LP

 

Carossello CLN 25100

Italy

LP

 

Milan BMG 73138 35811-2

United States

CD

 

Compilations

Chansons und Themen aus Fassbinder Filmen

Musik für Rainer Werner Fassbinder von Peer Raben : Album released by Alhambra AG – A 8941

Songs and themes from Lili Marleen (1980), Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel (1975), Lola (1981), Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (1970), Schatten der Engel (1975), Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982), Querelle (1982) und Die dritte Generation (1978) Track listing : 15 Each Man Kills The Things He Loves (02:55) Vocal: Jeanne Moreau, from ‘Querelle’.

Peer Raben - The Music From Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films (Film Score Anthology): Album released by Alhambra AG – 2002 ( 3 cd)

Track Listing: Disc 3 of 3.  Each Man Kills The Things He Loves – Jeanne Moreau

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Gavin Friday - Each Man Kills The Things He Loves

Audio CD (July 1, 1991) ; Original Release Date: August 28, 1989 ; Island Records (Polygram Records)

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves was released in 1989 and was the debut album from Gavin Friday following his exit from the Virgin Prunes. It is also his first collaboration with Maurice ‘The Man’ Seezer.  The title track is an excerpt from Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol set to original music. This album also features covers of Bob Dylan's ‘Death is not the End’ and Jacques Brel's ‘Next’ (in French : ‘Au Suivant’).

Track listing; 1. ‘Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves’ (Lyrics by Oscar Wilde) - 5:31 14. ‘Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves (Reprise)’ - 3:07

Versions of this release:

Title, Format

Label

Cat#

Country

Year

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (CD, Album)

Island Records

259 848

Germany

1989

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (7’)

Island Records

IS 408

UK

1989

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (CD)

Island Records (US)

7 91247-2

US

1989

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (CD, Maxi)

Island Records

CID 408

UK

1989

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (LP, Album)

Island Records

ILPS 9925

UK & Ireland

1989

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (LP, Album)

Island Records

209 848

Europe

1989

Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves (LP)

Island Records (US)

91247-1

US

1989

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (CD)

Island Masters

IMCD 175

UK

1993

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Jack The Ripper – The Book of Lies

Label / Distrib. : Jack The Ripper / Poplane

Tracks

9

Liberation

 

4:30

 

‘Liberation’ d'après ‘The Ballad of the Reading Gaol’ de Oscar Wilde et ‘To Helen’ de Edward Thomas

 

 

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