Christmas sentiment to the fore in this 100-minute collection featuring a galaxy of celebrated talent from yesteryear (recorded between 1941 and 1949), six beautifully told tales by those detailed on the cover, add to which, whether speaking or making music, Charles Laughton, Gregory Peck, Carmen Dragon and Victor Young.
The sound is clear and tangible (Audio Restoration by Mark Obert-Thorn) to add to the magic essayed by charismatic narrators and the descriptive/seasonal music, not least for Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (Ronald Colman as Scrooge). Eloquence 484 1365 (2 CDs). Nothing “Bah! Humbug!” about this release.
How wonderful to see these classics again and together! It is worth telling/ reminding that The Happy Prince is one of the most moving if saddest of all Christmas stories. I have to tell it to my grandchildren via a wonderful recording like this as even after all these years of knowing the story, I have never been able to narrate it to the end… ‘what’s wrong, grandpa?’…