Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance

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  • Strauss: Four Last Songs; Orchestral Songs
  • Andrew Davis Plays at the Roy Thomson Hall
  • Handel: Messiah
  • Elgar: Enigma Variations; Pomp & Circumstance Marches Nos. 1-5
  • R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Four Last Songs
  • Chaconne
  • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances; Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
  • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mahler: Symphony No.4; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6; The Lark Ascending; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  • Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes; Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
  • Elgar: Symphony No. 1; Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1, 3 & 4
  • Elgar: Enigma Variations; Cockaigne; Introduction & Allegro; Serenade for String Orchestra
  • Elgar: Symphony No. 2; In the South (Alassio)
  • R. Murray Schafer: Concerti
  • The Baroque Album
  • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Norwegian Dance No. 2; Homage March
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
  • Frederick Delius: Paris; The Walk to the Paradise Garden; In a Summer Garden; etc.
  • Tippett: The Mask Of Time
  • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
  • Mahler: Das Lied von eer Erde; Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Rückert
  • Holst: The Planets; Egdon Heath
  • Elgar: The Music Makers
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies No. 2 'A London Symphony' & 8
  • Last Night of the Proms: The 100th Season
  • Walton: Symphony No. 1; Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
  • Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
  • Nicholas Sackman: Hawthorn
  • Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3; Overture & Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor"; In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • Janacek: Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba; Kodály: Dances
  • Anton Kuerti plays Beethoven
  • Michael Tippett: Concerto for Double Orchestra; Fantasia concertante on a Theme of Corelli; Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage
  • Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor; Purcell: Trumpet Tune; Franck: Prelude, Fugue et Variation
  • Gershwin: Fascinatin' Rhythm; Someone to Watch Over Me; Lullaby; Jazzbo Brown Blues
  • Anthony Payne: Time's Arrow
  • Alun Hoddinott: Symphonies 2, 3 & 5
  • Bartók & Lutoslawski: Concertos for Orchestra
  • Strauss: Orchestral Music from Stage Works
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9; Job
  • Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9
  • Sibelius: En Saga; The Swan of Tuonela; Finlandia; The Oceanides; Tapiola
  • Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1 "Classical" & 5; Lt. Kijé Suite; The Love for Three Oranges
  • Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica; A Pastoral Symphony
  • Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus
  • Vaughan Williams: The Symphonies
  • Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
  • Elgar: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Overture "In the South"; Pomp & Circumstance Marches 1, 3 & 5
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Zigeunerlieder
  • Anton Kuerti plays Beethoven, Vol. 3
  • Anton Kuerti Plays Beethoven, Vol. 2
  • The Baroque Album
  • Dvorak: Symphony No. 6; American Suite
  • Elgar: Falstaff; Froissart; Romance for Bassoon; Grania and Diarmid - Incidental music & Funeral march
  • Shostakovich: Symphony 10
  • Elgar: Sketches for Symphony No. 3
  • Edward Elgar: The Sketches fro Symphony No. 3 elaborated by Anthony Payne
  • Janácek: Sinfonietta; Ballad of Blanek; Fiddler's Child; Taras Bulba
  • Walton: Belshazzar's Feast; Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia
  • Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Divertimento; Rhapsody No. 1; Dance Suite; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
  • Takemitsu: I Hear the Water Dreaming
  • Holst: The Planets, etc.
  • Handel: Messiah [Highlights]
  • Melinda Wagner: Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion; Poul Ruders: Concerto in Pieces (Purcell Variations)
  • Hugh Wood: Symphony; Scenes from Comus
  • Walton: Belshazzar's Feast; Vaughan Williams: Job
  • Michael Tippett: Ritual Dances; Fantasia Concertante; Concerto for Double String Orchestra
  • Handel: Messiah (Highlights)
  • Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge; Four Sea Interludes; Passacaglia
  • Berg: Violin Concerto; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
  • Nielsen: Little Suite; Grieg: Holberg Suite; Stenhammer: Serenade
  • Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
  • Elgar: Symphony No. 1; Elegy for Strings; Sospiri
  • Janacek: Sinfonietta; Ballad of Blanek; Fiddler; Taras Bulba
  • Rachmaninov: The Rock, Symphonic Dances; The Isle Of The Dead
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Lark Ascending
  • Kurt Weill: Royal Palace - Der Neue Orpheus
  • Kurt Weill: The Firebrand of Florence
  • Anthony Gilbert: On Beholding a Rainbow
  • Martinu: Frescoes; Double Concerto; Janácek: Our Father; Hukvaldy Songs
  • Elgar: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2; Pomp & Circumstance Marches; Enigma Variations
  • Chopin, Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Soprano
  • Elgar: Violin Concerto; Serenade for Strings
  • Elgar: Symphony No. 1; Enigma Variations
  • Beethoven: Piano Concerti
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Elgar: Falstaff; Enigma Variations; Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Mass in G minor
  • Elgar: Enigma Variations; In the South; Serenade for Strings
  • Sir Edward Elgar: The Crown of India
  • Elgar: Symphonies No. 1 & 2
  • Elgar: Enigma Variations Op. 36; Pomp & Circumstance
  • Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance
  • Elgar: Violin Concerto; Interlude from The Crown of India & Polonia
  • Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
  • Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - The Planets
  • Delius: Appalachia; The Song of the High Hills
  • York Bowen: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
  • Delius: Double Concerto; Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto
  • Elgar: Cello Concerto
  • Harrison Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time
  • Frederick Delius: Piano Concerto; Brigg Fair; etc.
  • Elgar Essentials
  • Elgar: The Starlight Express
  • Hector Berlioz: Overtures
  • Sir Eugene Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
  • Percy Grainger: Works for Large Chorus and Orchestra
  • Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
  • The Lark Ascending
  • Delius in Norway
  • Sibelius: Violin Concerto
  • Arnold Bax: Phantasy; Four Orchestral Pieces; Overture, Elegy & Rondo
  • Strauss: Don Juan; Four Last Songs; Also sprach Zarathustra
  • Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; Sea Pictures
  • Elgar: King Olaf; The Banner of Saint George
  • Charles Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
  • Berlioz: Harold en Italie; Rob-Roy; Rêverie et Caprice
  • Bliss: Morning Heroes; Hymn for Apollo
  • Tasmin Little Plays Haydn Wood, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Frederick Delius
  • Charles Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - A Symphony "New England Holidays"; Three Places in New England; Central Park in the Dark; The Unanswered Question
  • Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Intermezzo - Four Symphonic Interludes
  • Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette
  • Handel: Messiah
  • Vaughan Williams: Job; Symphony No. 9
  • Charles Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting"; Symphony No. 4; Orchestral Set No. 2
  • Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica; Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Four Last Songs
  • Elgar: Falstaff; Orchestral Songs; Grania and Diarmid Incidental Music and Funeral March
  • Sir Arthur Bliss: The Beatitudes; Introduction and Allegro; God Save the Queen
  • Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
  • Finzi: Cello Concerto; Eclogue; New Year Music; Grand Fantasia and Toccata
  • Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
  • Elgar: The Music Makers; The Spirit of England
  • Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ
  • Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto; Don Quixote
  • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Fantasie sur la Tempète de Shakespeare
  • Richard Strauss: Don Quixote; Sonatas for Cello and Piano; Songs, Op. 10 and Op. 32
  • Bliss: Mary of Magdala; The Enchantress; Meditations on a Theme by John Blow
  • Sir Eugene Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
  • Massenet: Thaïs

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November 9, 2010

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Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance

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Track Listing

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Military Medley
Laurence Cottle
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 04:47 Amazon
Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance
2
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major (Edward Elgar) / Lines from "For the Fallen" (Lawrence Binyon) / On the Idle Hill of Summer (A.E. Housman)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 05:10 Amazon
3
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" (Thomas Hardy)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:33 Amazon
4
Salut d'amour
Edward Elgar
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 03:45 Amazon
Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance
5
The Autumn of the World (Herbert Read)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:54 Amazon
6
Mars, the Bringer of War (from The Planets) (Gustav Holst) / Attack (Siegfried Sassoon) / The General (Siegfried Sassoon) / The Dead (III) (from 1914) (Rupert Booke)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 06:38 Amazon
7
For the Fallen (Lawrence Binyon)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 01:53 Amazon
8
In Memoriam (Easter 1915) (Edward Thomas)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:18 Amazon
9
The Dead (IV) (from 1914) (Rupert Brooke)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 01:08 Amazon
10
Returning, We Hear the Larks (Isaac Rosenberg)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 01:07 Amazon
11
Everyone Sang (Siegfried Sassoon)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:36 Amazon
Two Pieces, Op. 15
12
Chanson de matin
Edward Elgar
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 03:34 Amazon
Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance
13
On the Dead in Gallipoli (John Masefield)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:16 Amazon
14
Elegy (Edward Elgar) / Before Action (W.N. Hodgson) / The Soldier (V) (from 1914) (Rupert Brooke)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 04:23 Amazon
15
Futility (Wilfred Owen)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:51 Amazon
16
In Flanders Fields (John McRae)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:53 Amazon
Two Pieces, Op. 15
17
Chanson de nuit
Edward Elgar
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 04:10 Amazon
Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance
18
The Hand that Signed the Paper (Dylan Thomas)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 01:02 Amazon
19
Summer Night on the River (Frederick Delius) / To a Conscript of 1940 (Herbert Read) / Watching Post (C. Day Lewis)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 05:54 Amazon
20
Naming of Parts (Henry Reed)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 02:05 Amazon
21
All Day It Has Rained (Alun Lewis)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 02:01 Amazon
22
Dawn (from Peter Grimes) (Benjamin Britten) / Song of the Dying Gunner (Charles Causley) / For Johnny (John Pudney)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 03:34 Amazon
23
Venus, the Bringer of Peace (from The Planets) (Gustav Holst) / Midnight May 7th, 1945 (Patric Dickinson) / Will It Be So Again? (C. Day Lewis)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 08:40 Amazon
24
At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux (Charles Causley)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:47 Amazon
Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma Variations)
25
Nimrod
Edward Elgar
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 04:09 Amazon
Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance
26
And Death Shall Have No Dominion (Dylan Thomas)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 01:36 Amazon
27
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major
Edward Elgar
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 06:15 Amazon
Lest We Forget: Poetry and Music of Remembrance
28
Lines from "For the Fallen" (Lawrence Binyon)
Various Composers
Andrew Davis / John Gielgud / Derek Jacobi / BBC Symphony Orchestra 00:20 Amazon
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