Lest we forget : poetry and music of remembrane.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Gielgud, John, 1904-2000, speaker.

Orr, Peter, speaker.

Calvert, Phyllis, 1915-2002, speaker.

Jacobi, Derek, speaker.

Davis, Andrew, 1944-2024, conductor, instrumentalist.

Cottle, Laurence, conductor.

BBC Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.

Laurence Cottle Big Band, instrumentalist.

Chelsea Pensioners (Musical group), performer.

Series:

Naxos Music Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Great Britain.

Music.

Orchestral music.

Great Britain.

Choruses, Secular.

English poetry.

Genre:

Orchestral music.

Streaming audio.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Warner Classics, [2010]

System Details:

digital

audio file

Contents:

There's something about a soldier ; We're going to hang out the washing on the Siegfried line ; Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag ; It's a long way to tipperary / Noel Gay, Jack Judge, Jimmy Kennedy, Felix Powell (The Laurence Cottle Big Band ; Chelsea Pensioners ; Laurence Cottle, conductor)

For the fallen ; On the idle hill of summer / Laurence Binyon, AE Housman (John Gielgud, Peter Orr, readers ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

In time of the breaking of nations (Phyllis Calvert, reader)

Salut d'amour, op. 12 / Edward Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

The autumn of the world (John Gielgud, reader)

Attack ; The general ; The dead / Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon (Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, readers ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor, organ)

For the fallen / Laurence Binyon (John Gielgud, reader)

In memoriam / Edward Thomas (Phyllis Calvert, reader)

The dead / Siegfried Sassoon (John Gielgud, reader)

Returning, we hear the larks / Isaac Rosenberg (Derek Jacobi, reader)

Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon (John Gielgud, reader)

Chanson de matin, op. 15, no. 2 / Edward Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

On the dead in Gallipoli / John Masefield (Phyllis Calvert, reader)

Before action ; The soldier / Rupert Brooke, William Noel Hodgson (Derek Jacobi, reader ; Peter Orr, narrator ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

Futility / Wilfred Owen (Peter Orr, narrator)

In Flanders fields / John McCrae (John Gielgud, reader)

Chanson de nuit, op. 15, no. 1 / Edward Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

The hand that signed the paper / Dylan Thomas (Derek Jacobi, reader)

To a conscript of 1940 ; Watching post / Cecil Day Lewis, Herbert Read (John Gielgud, reader ; Peter Orr, narrator ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

Naming of parts / Henry Reed (Derek Jacobi, reader)

All day it has rained / Alun Lewis (Peter Orr, narrator)

Song of the dying gunner ; For Johnny / Charles Causley, John Pudney (Derek Jacobi, Phyllis Calvert, readers ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

Midnight May 7th, 1945 ; Will it be so again / Cecil Day Lewis, Patric Dickinson (John Gielgud, Phyllis Calvert, readers ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

At the British war cemetery, Bayeux / Charles Causley (Peter Orr, narrator)

Nimrod / Edward Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas (Derek Jacobi, reader)

Pomp and circumstance no. 1 in D major / Edward Elgar (BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, conductor)

For the fallen / Laurence Binyon (John Gielgud, reader).

Participant:

Various performers.

OCLC:

1260198354

Publisher Number:

GBCRL1000294

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825646772070 Warner Classics

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