Caedmon recorded Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in the evening of their careers. Sir Lewis was a prominent actor-manager and his wife Dame Sybil a mainstay of the Old Vic. (Shaw wrote St Joan expressly for her)
The major poems read here are The Lady of Shallott, Ulysses, Morte d"Arthur and In Memoriam (Prologue, VI, VII, XI, LIV, LXX, L, CXXIX, CVIII)
As an interesting comparison I have appended a much earlier recording of an excerpt from Macbeth.
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04 - Tears, Idle Tears (Thorndike).mp3
05 - Merlin and the Gleam (Casson).mp3
06 - Morte d'Arthur (Thorndike).mp3
07 - The Revenge (Casson).mp3
08 - Now Sleeps the Crimson (Thorndike).mp3
09 - Crossing the Bar (Thorndike).mp3
10 - Macbeth I,v (Thorndike).mp3