Title Lest we forget : poetry and music of remembrane

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

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Description 1 online resource (1 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) Performer Various performers Subject Music -- Great Britain Orchestral music. Choruses, Secular. English poetry. Choruses, Secular. English poetry. Music. Orchestral music. Great Britain. Genre/Form Streaming audio Form Streaming audio Author Gielgud, John, 1904-2000, speaker. Orr, Peter, speaker Calvert, Phyllis, 1915-2002, speaker. Jacobi, Derek, speaker. Davis, Andrew, 1944- conductor, instrumentalist. Cottle, Laurence, conductor. BBC Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist. Laurence Cottle Big Band, instrumentalist Chelsea Pensioners (Musical group), performer.

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