RG 400-499 (mono), ZRG 5400-5499 (stereo)
More of "The English Poets" series, the end of the marathon effort to record all of Shakespeare’s plays (Pericles), continuing collaborations with the British Council, the label’s first foray into educational recordings (Rhyme and Rhythm) and the release on disc of the first of the BBC’s Radio Ballads (John Axon) after protracted negotiations.
Spoken word in yellow, classical (dominated by choral and song) in grey, and miscellaneous – including several albums of Irish songs – in green.
| RG 400 ZRG 5400 |
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, dir Neville Marriner | Handel – Six Concerti Grossi, Op 3 | 1964 |
| RG 401 | Coghill, Davis, Barrow | Chaucer – Canterbury Tales Prologue | June 1964 |
| RG 403 | Johnson, Orr, Squire | The English Poets – John Donne | 1964 |
| RG 404 | Stride, Watson, Bonnamy, Holmes, Orr, Church, Squire, Marquand | The English Poets – The Metaphysical Poets – Religious | 1965 |
| RG 405 ZRG 5405 |
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, dir Guest | Hymns for all Seasons | 1964 |
| RG 406 ZRG 5406 |
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, dir Guest | English Cathedral Music – Walmisley, Nares, Goss, Wesley | 1964 |
| RG 407- RG 410 ZRG 5407- |
Marlowe Society, plus Wymark, Wordsworth, Squire, Garland, Lehmann, Scales et al, dir Rylands | Shakespeare – Richard III | 1964 |
| RG 411- RG 413 ZRG 5411- |
Marlowe Society, plus Squire, Duncan, Hordern, Orr, Church, Watson, King, McCarthy, Scales, Rawlings, Richer. Dir Rylands. | Shakespeare – Pericles | 1964 |
| RG 414- RG 417 ZRG 5414- |
Various artists incl. Pat Shuldham artists including Pat Shuldham Shaw, Esme Lewis, Choir of Hamsptead Garden Suburb School, Spike Milligan, Prunella Scales etc |
Rhyme and Rhythm – poems and songs for children (4 vols) |
1965 |
| RG 418 ZRG 5418 |
Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano) Joan Dickson (cello) | Twentieth-Century English Songs – Ireland, Bridge, Richard Rodney Bennett, Rainier | 1964 |
| RG 419 ZRG 5419 |
Simon Preston (organ) | Bach – Sechs Chorale von verschiedener Art Mozart – Fantasia in F minor K 608/ Fantasia in F minor and major K 594 |
1964 |
| RG 420 ZRG 5420 |
Simon Preston (organ) | Reger – Toccata in D minor and Fugue in D major/Chorale Fantasia, Straf’ mich nicht in deinem Zorn
Reubke – Sonata on the 94th Psalm |
1964 |
| RG 421-2 ZRG 5421- ZRG 5422 |
Philomusica of London, dir George Malcolm | Bach – The Art of the Fugue | 1965 |
| RG 423 ZRG 5423 |
Choral and Song Choir of St Michael’s College, Tenbury, cond. Nethsingha | Sing Joyfully – anthems by Tallis, Morley, Tye, Gibbons, Britten | 1965 |
| RG 424 ZRG 5424 |
Elizabethan Singers dir. Louis Halsey, Wilfrid Parry (piano) | Benjamin Britten – Part Songs | 1964? |
| ZRG 5425 | Dartington String Quartet, Katherina Wolpe, Leonardo Wind Quartet, Joan Dickson, Margaret Kitchin | Elisabeth Lutyens – Bagatelles, two quartets Ian Hamiton – Cello Sonata, Three Pieces for Piano |
1965 |
| ZRG 5426 | Richard Rodney Bennett (piano), Susan Bradshaw (piano), John Alldis Choir, in assoc. British Council | Choral Music – Gardner, Lutyens, Joubert, Naylor | 1965 |
| RG 427 | Stride, Watson, Bonnamy, Holmes, Orr, Church, Squire, Marquand. Dir Rylands, assoc. British Council, OUP | The Metaphysical Poets – Secular | 1965 |
| RG 428 |
Alan Bates, Bonnamy, Devlin, Johnson, Marquand, Orr |
William Blake – Poems |
1964 |
| RG 429 |
Orr, Squire |
William Wordsworth – The Prelude (excerpts) |
1965 |
| RG 430 ZRG 5430 |
Stephane Caillat Chamber Choir, cond. Caillat | Milhaud – Cantata Les Deux Cites, Cantate de la Paix Poulenc – Motets, Lauds |
1965 |
| RG 431 | Church, Redgrave, McCarthy | John Milton – Paradise Lost Book 1 | 1965 |
| RG 432 | Church, Redgrave, Devlin, Rylands, Wymark, McCarthy, Orr, Burrell | John Milton – Paradise Lost – Book 2 | 1965 |
| RG 433 | Devlin, Squire, Watson | English Poets – John Milton | 1965 |
| RG 434 ZRG 5434 |
Bernadette Greevy (contralto), Harold Cray (bass), Our Lady’s Choral Society, Radio Eireann Light Orchestra sextet, Radio Eireann Symphony Orchestra, cond. Doyle | Ireland Mother Ireland (anthology of Irish songs) | 1965 |
| RG 436 ZRG 5436 |
King’s College Cambridge Choir, Cambridhe Universirty Musical Society, Andrew Davis (organ), John Langdon (organ), cond. David Willcocks | Thomas Tallis – Selections | 1965 |
| RG 437 | Robert Donat | Robert Donat reading Poetry | 1965 |
| RG 438 (part from RG 41 1955) |
Burton, Neville, Hardy, Bonnamy, Devlin |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
1965 |
| RG 439 ZRG 5439 |
Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten, Alan Bush, Viola Tunnard (piano), assoc. British Council | Peter Pears – English Songs | 1965 |
| RG 440 ZRG 5440 |
Roger Parker (treble), Michael Pearce (counter-tenor), Forbes Robinson (bass), Marisa Robles (harp), Brian Runnet (organ), St John’s College Choir, cond. George Guest | Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb, Missa Brevis, A Ceremony of Carols | 1965 |
| RG 442 ZRG 5442 |
Roger Lord (oboe), Academy-of-St. Martin-in- the-Fields, dir. Marriner | Handel – Instrumental Works | 1965 |
| ZRG 5443 | Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor), Gerald English (tenor), John Frost (baritone), Robin Stenham (treble), Robert Tear (tenor), Jihn Whitworth (counter-tenor), Osian Ellis (harp & voice), Desmond Dupre (plectrum lute & guitar), Joan Rimmer (psaltery), Christopher Taylor (recorder), Christopher Wellington (viola), Frank Ll Harrison (music director) | Medieval English Lyrics | 1965 |
| RG 444 ZRG 5444 |
Roger Parker (treble), Charles Brett (counter-tenor), Robert Tear, Wilfred Brown (tenors), Christopher Keyte, Christopher Bevan (baritones), Inia Te Wiata (bass), Choir of St. John’s College, Cam-bridge, Brian Runnett (organ), Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields con. George Guest | Purcell – Music for the Chapel Royal | 1964 |
| RG 447 ZRG 5447 |
Simon Preston (organ), rec. in Westminster Abbey | Messiaen – La Nativite du Seigneur | 1966? |
| RG 449 |
Curran, O’Sullivan, Norton, Manahan |
William Butler Yeats – Poems |
1966 |
| RG 450 ZRG 5450 |
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge | A Festival of Lessons and Carols | 1965 |
| RG 451 |
Various poets read their own works. Recorded in assoc. with British Council and Harvard University. |
The Poet Speaks Vol 1 – James Reeves, David Jones, William Plomer, C. Day Lewis |
1965 |
| RG 452 |
Various poets read their own works |
The Poet Speaks Vol 2 – Norman Nicholson, Stevie Smith, W.R. Rodgers, Vernon Watkins, Edward Lowbury | 1965 |
| RG 453 |
Various poets read their own works |
The Poet Speaks Vol 3 – John Heath-Stubbs, Thomas Blackburn, Laurnece Whistler, John Press, Julian Ennis | 1965 |
| RG 454 |
Various poets read their own works |
The Poet Speaks Vol 4 – Tony Connor, Thomas Kinsella, Elizabeth Jennings, Peter Redgrove | 1965 |
| RG 455 |
Various poets read their own works |
The Poet Speaks Vol 5 – Ted Hughes, Peter Porter, Thom Gunn, Sylvia Plath | 1965 |
| RG 456 |
Various poets read their own works |
The Poet Speaks Vol 6 – Nineteen Poets – John Ardin, Michael Baldwin, Taner Baybars, Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, John Fuller, Michael Harnett, Hamish Henderson, David Holbrook, James Liddy, George MacBeth, Christopher Middleton, Adrian Mitchell, Ruth Pitter, Herbert Read, Edward Thomas, Anthony Thwaite, Rosemary Tonks, David Wevill | 1965 |
| RG 457 ZRG 5457 |
Marisa Robles (harp) | Harp Music of Spain | 1966 |
| RG 458 ZRG 5458 |
Marisa Robles (harp) | Harp Music of France | 1966 |
| RG 459 ZRG 5459 |
Bernadette Greevy (contralto), Radio Eireann Light Orchestra sextet, Mercedes Bolger (harp), Jeannie Reddin (piano) | Over here (Irish Songs) | 1966 |
| RG 460 ZRG 5460 |
Our Lady’s Choral Society with Bernadette Greevy, Harold Gray & Radio Eireann Light Orchestra cond. Col James Boyle | Let Erin Remember | 1966 |
| RG 463 |
Church, Johnson, Scales, Duncan, Redgrave, dir Rylands |
John Milton – Paradise Lost Books 3 and 4 (abridged) |
1966 |
| RG 464 | Church, Redgrave, Watson, Johnson, Scales, Hordern, Marquand, Croucher | John Milton – Paradise Lost Books 5-6 | 1966 |
| RG 466 | Nevill Coghill, Norman Davis | The English Poets – Chaucer – Canterbury Tales/Nun’s Priest Tale | 1966 |
| RG 467 ZRG 5467 |
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields dir. Neville Marriner | Mendelssohn – String Symphonies | 1966 |
| RG 468 |
Various Artists. Dir Barry Cassin and Noel MacMahon, music by Gerard Victory. |
W.B. Yeats – Noh Plays Vol 1 – At the Hawk’s Well,The Dreaming of the Bones |
1966 |
| RG 469 |
Various Artists. Dir Barry Cassin and Noel MacMahon, music by Gerard Victory. |
W.B. Yeats – Noh Plays Vol 2 -The Cat and the Moon, Resurrection |
1966 |
| RG 470- RG 472 |
Barbara Jefford, Alec McCowen, Max Adrian et al, dir. Shirley Butler | G. B. Shaw – Saint Joan | 1966 |
| RG 474 | Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger et al | The Ballad of John Axon (BBC Radio Ballad) | 1965 |
| RG 475 ZRG 5475 |
a) Barry Tuckwell (horn) Brenton Langbein (violin) Maureen Jones (piano) b) William Bennett (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) c) William Pleeth (cello) Gervase de Peyer d) Margaret Kitchin (piano) Barry Tuckwell (horn) | Modern Instrumental Music – a) Banks b) Rodney Bennett c) Tate d) Hamilton | 1966 |
| ZRG 5479 | Choir of King’s College Cambridge, dir. David Willcocks | Tallis – Tudor Church Music Record II | 1966 |
| RG 484 | Ashcroft, Holm, Johnson, Stride | Elizabethan and Jacobean Lyrics | 1966 |
| RG 485 | Holm, Johnson, Rylands, Stride | The English Poets – a) Elizabethan Sonneteers b) Edmund Spenser | 1966 |
| RG 486 |
Ashcroft, Holm, Johnson, Orr, Stride |
16th-17th Century Poets – Campion, Johnson and Herrick |
1966 |
| RG 488 |
Church, Scales, Scott, Squire, Watson |
Edmund Spenser – The Faerie Queen (excerpts) |
1966 |
| RG 489 ZRG 5489 |
Alberni String Quartet – Dennis Simons, Howard Davis (violins), John White (viola), Gregory Baron (cello). In assoc with British Council. | Rawsthorne – String Quartets | 1966 |
| RG 490 ZRG 5490 |
Elizabeth Vaughan (soprano), Alexander Young (tenor), Forbes Robinson (bass), Andrew Davis (harpsichord), John Langdon (organ continuo), King’s College Choir, Academy of St Matin-in-the-Fields cond. David Willcocks | Handel – Chandos Anthems | 1966 |
| RG 491-492 ZRG 5491- ZRG 5492 |
George Malcolm (harpsichord) | Rameau – Harpsichord Works | 1967 |
| RG 493 | Michael MacLiammoir | I must be talking to my friends (Ireland’s Poets, Wits and Revolutionaries) | 1966 |
| RG 494 ZRG 5494 |
Choir of St John’s College, Jonathan Bielby (organ), Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord), strings from Academy of St Martin-in-the-Field, cond George Guest | Monteverdi – Messa a 4 voci | 1966 |
| RG 495 ZRG 5495 |
Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, cond. Imogen Holst | Holst – Six Choruses with Medieval Lyrics, Seven Part Songs | 1966 |
| RG 496 ZRG 5496 |
Elizabethan Singers, cond. Louis Halsey, Owen Brannigan (bass), Wilfred Parry (piano) | English Folk Song Recital | 1966 |
| RG 497 ZRG 5497 |
Peter Pears (tenor), Norbert Brainin (violin), Richard Adeney (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Viola Tunnard (piano), Purcell Singers cond. Imogen Holst | Holst – Vocal and Instrumental Works | 1967 |
| RG 498 ZRG 5498 |
Barry Tuckwell (horn), Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields cond. Neville Marriner | Haydn – Horn Concertos | 1966 |
| RG 499 ZRG 5499 |
Elizabethan Singers – Louis Halsey, Simon Preston (organ) | Contemporary Carols | 1966 |


