While good for movies and sound effects its not how the music is played at the show. First off realize I am a dedicated 2 channel stereo guy, this means I dont talk video or surround sound. Simon Vance, who is also another wonderful narrator, has recorded Swann’s Way, but it doesn’t look like this will be a complete recording of all seven volumes of Remembrance of Things Past, as this recording was released in September, 2010, and no follow-up has yet been released.īuy Swann’s Way on or Amazon UK.OK So here is where you can learn the basics about hifi, my aim is to save you the time learning by yourself, because that can take years. For now, this is the only complete recording in the works. If you want to listen to Proust, and don’t speak French, Neville Jason’s recordings are excellent. Naxos will be releasing each volume individually, and will most likely offer a box set with the entire text – which will be more than 120 hours – when all the titles have been released. Swann’s Way is more than 21 hours long, and is only the first of seven volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. In addition, his French accent is quite good, and when he speaks the names of French people or towns, it sounds as it should.
Jason’s reading is a performance, but it also sounds like he’s sitting by your side, reading from the book, like a friend. He takes his time, allowing you to absorb the work comfortably, without speaking too slowly, as is sometimes the case on older audiobook readings. The narrator, Neville Jason, has one of those smooth, soft English accents that lulls and entrances you. Proust actually has quite a following in the US and England, and his popularity is such that Naxos Audiobooks has recently released the first part of a complete, unabridged recording of Remembrance of Things Past (also know as In Search of Lost Time). But not all Proustians are French speakers. Some time ago, I listened to the entire work, on a French audio recording. I recently started re-reading A la recherche du temps perdu, but was sidetracked by moving house.
As regular readers of Kirkville probably know, I’m a fan of Marcel Proust.
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