Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood (with original music by George Martin & Elton John) / Anthony Hopkins, Tom Jones (2CD)

Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood (with original music by George Martin & Elton John) / Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler, Mark Knopfler / Mary Hopkin, Anthony Hopkins / Alan Bennett, Jonathan Pryce, Aled Jones (2CD)

1954年，威爾斯詩人、作家狄倫．湯瑪斯接受英國廣播公司委託，創作了廣播劇《牛奶樹下》。《牛奶樹下》發生在威爾斯一個虛構的小漁村，由一個無所不知的旁白帶領聽眾，傾聽這個小漁村裡居民的故事。這個村子住著一個因為潔癖而不願意讓客人留宿，總是在夢裡不斷嘮叨兩個已經死去的丈夫的旅館老闆娘、一個總是懷念過去航海夥伴與逝去愛人的老船長、布列德先生的前後任妻子、對音樂瘋狂痴迷的教堂管風琴手、因為失去孩子而天天唱歌的年輕母親⋯⋯每個人都像是活在現實，又像是活在自己的夢裡。有一天，小漁村的居民全都從夢裡醒來，察覺到自己的情感是如何影響自己的行為。

《牛奶樹下》從此成為狄倫‧湯瑪斯的經典作品，不但多次製作為廣播劇，還曾經兩度拍成電影。其中1972年的版本是由李察．波頓、伊莉莎白．泰勒與彼得．奧圖主演。1998年，唱片製作人、作曲家、編曲家與指揮家，有「披頭四第五人」之稱的喬治．馬汀，邀請艾爾頓．強一同創作，推出這個除了對話，還有歌唱、音樂的《牛奶樹下》。並且由名演員安東尼．霍普金斯擔任主述。其他參與演出的還有威爾斯歌手湯姆．瓊斯、邦妮．泰勒、瑪麗．霍普金、亞雷德．瓊斯，英國吉他手、歌手馬克‧諾弗勒 ⋯⋯重要的演員與音樂家。

曲目:
CD1
1. Main Theme (Orchestra Conducted By Sir George Martin With Mark Knopfler) 2:32
2. To Begin At The Begining 5:32
3. Never Such Seas 2:49
4. I Am A Draper Mad With Love 4:59
5. Now, In Her Iceberg-White... Nightgown 2:01
6. In Butcher Beynon’s 4:49
7. Titbits And Topsyturvies 3:04
8. And The Dawn Inches Up 2:30
9. Morning Prayer 2:50
10. Guide Book (Alan Bennet And Cast) 1:46
11. Oh, There’s A Face! 1:44
12. Here’s Your Arsenic, Dear 5:33
13. Mr And Mrs Cherry Owen 1:42
14. From Beynon Butcher’s In Coronation Street 3:42
15. And... Captain Cat Hears All The Morning Of The Town 4:36
16. All The Women Are Out This Morning 4:40
17. Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, La-Di-Da 2:46
18. Mrs Willy Nilly Steams Open Mr Mog Edwards’s Letter 3:55
19. Johnnie Crack And Flossie Snail (Sung By Children Of Laugharne School With Freddie Jones) 1:31

CD2
1. The Music Of The Spheres 2:54
2. Polly Garter: I Loved A Man (Sung By Bonnie Tyler) 2:47
3. And Gossamer Beynon, Schoolteacher, Spoon-stirred And Quivering 1:25
4. Gwennie Call The Boys 3:23
5. Gossamer Beynon High-Heels Out Of School 2:35
6. Persons With Manners Do Not Read At Table 2:51
7. Lord Cut-Glass, In His Kitchen Full Of Time 2:11
8. Now When Farmer’s Boys On The First Fair Day (Reprise Of Polly Garter Song, Sung By Bonnie Tyler)
- The Sunny, Slow, Lulling Afternoon 4:18
9. Rosie Probert And Captain Cat: Love Duet (Sung By Mary Hopkin And Freddie Jones) 6:05
10. The Revd Eli Jenkins, Inky In His Cool Front Parlour 3:29
11. Now The Town Is Dusk 2:55
12. Revd Eli Jenkins: Every Morning When I Wake (Sung By Sir Geraint Evans With The London Welsh Male Voice Choir) 4:05
13. And Lily Smalls Is Up To Nogood Boyo 3:11
14. Mr Waldo: Come And Sweep My Chimbley (Sung By Tom Jones) 3:06
15. Dancing, Williams? 2:03
16. But I Alwais Think As We Tumble Into Bed (Reprise Of Polly Garter Song, Sung By Bonnie Tyler)
- The Thin Dusk Thickens - Main Theme 2:28

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