Lord Byron - Don Juan - Part 1

[@gregjones8412]

Beautiful reading

[@rayat2715]

By far the best reading of Don Juan on KZbin (that I've found anyway). Odd that there is no mention of the reader. Who is this?

[@lpkvideodesigns4998]

I'll try and find out for you.

[@lpkvideodesigns4998]

Richard Johnson (plus Peggy Ashcroft and Jeanette Richer)

[@rayat2715]

Thanks for that. I had to look up who Richard Johnson was and found that an actor who I remembered as being quite ordinary in some quite ordinary films was in fact a very capable stage actor. Do you know if this was his full reading of Don Juan or just the beginning of the recording? I'd love to hear more of this, he gets the rhythm and accenting so that it rolls along as I'm sure Byron would have heard it.

[@lpkvideodesigns4998]

I'll try and find out!

[@terrybyrne4324]

His performance of Anthony ('Anthony & Cleopatra' film version) is excellent.

[@kkhh6948]

Superbly read.

[@edifyguy]

Very nice reading. Thanks for sharing it.

[@dianawalsh8959]

Brilliant reading!!

[@mortensenegbert6619]

Surprised to hear "Juan" pronounced "JOO-WUN".

[@TerryWaitesRadiator]

Wouldn't rhyme if it was pronounced as you'd normally expect it.

[@ria1636]

@@TerryWaitesRadiator Thank you, I wondered about this myself.

[@craigbrandist1910]

The reading is by Richard Johnson.

[@terrybyrne4324]

Wonderfully read, capturing the humour & gusto of the poem. Richard Johnson is easily the greatest Anthony on film (the film version in which Patrick Stewart is Enobarbus).

[@mortensenegbert6619]

Shame he skips over vast swathes of the poem.

[@DavidAndersen84]

😬 this is the second recording I have heard that butcher's his name. What is wth the British pronunciation of Juan? It boarders the obstinate? Show some respect to Italian.

[@mgrimes1367]

This is Byron's pronunciation; you can tell by the rhyme, as Gary Farrell pointed out.

[@leninsoft7702]

Italian? Seville is in spain, if anything he should show some respect to spanish. Aside from that I'm italian, I love this poem and don't really care if they miss a pronunciation since it is English not Italian/Spanish