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The pity of war : songs and poems of wartime suffering.

Title
The pity of war : songs and poems of wartime suffering.
Publication
[London] : BBC Music Magazine, [2003], ℗2003.

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  • Matthews, Sally, 1975-
  • Padmore, Mark.
  • Maltman, Christopher.
  • Burnside, Iain
  • Vignoles, Roger
  • Beale, Simon Russell
  • Allen, Ann (Piccolo player)
  • Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918.
  • Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
  • Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915.
  • Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
  • Somervell, Arthur, 1863-1937.
  • Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
  • MacMillan, James, 1959-
  • Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.
  • Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.
  • Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963.
  • Ireland, John, 1879-1962.
  • Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962.
  • Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998.
  • Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956.
  • Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947.
  • Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
  • Gurney, Ivor, 1890-1937.
  • Butterworth, George, 1885-1916.
Description
1 audio disc : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform Title
BBC music magazine.
Subjects
Note
  • Accompanies: BBC music magazine, v. 12, no. 3.
  • Compact disc.
  • Program notes by Iain Burnside and biographical notes on the performers (7 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Credits (note)
  • Producer, Clive Portbury.
Event (note)
  • Recorded Jan. 25, 2002, at BBC Maida Vale Studios, London, and July 15 and 27, 2003, at the Warehouse, London.
Contents
On the idle hill of summer / Arthur Somervell ; words by A.E. Housman (2:41) -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen (:54) -- Dirge for two veterans / Kurt Weill ; words by Walt Whitman (4:20) -- The children / James MacMillan ; words by William Soutar (6:20) -- Corporal Stare / Robert Graves (1:33) -- Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen / Gustav Mahler ; words by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano (6:20) -- He is there! / Charles Ives ; words by Charles Ives (4:16) -- Bleuet / Francis Poulenc ; words by Guillaume Apollinaire (3:11) -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke (1:06) -- The soldier / John Ireland ; words by Rupert Brooke (2:53) -- An den kleinen Radioapparat / Hanns Eisler ; words by Bertolt Brecht (1:18) -- Buddy on the nightshift / Kurt Weill ; words by Oscar Hammerstein II (2:47) -- The dancer / Michael Tippett ; words by Alun Lewis (2:19) -- Counter-attack / Siegfried Sassoon (2:25) -- Channel firing / Gerald Finzi ; words by Thomas Hardy (6:16) -- C / Francis Poulenc ; words by Louis Aragon (2:59) -- Hotelzimmer 1942 / Hanns Eisler ; words by Bertolt Brecht (2:02) -- Ma jeunesse / Reynaldo Hahn ; words by Hélène Vacaresco (2:20) -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen (1:55) -- The children / Benjamin Britten ; words by William Soutar (4:44) -- Le disparu / Francis Poulenc ; words by Robert Desnos (1:37) -- Severn meadows / Ivor Gurney ; words by Ivor Gurney (1:46) -- The parable of the old man and the young / Wilfred Owen (:58) -- The lads in their hundreds / George Butterworth ; words by A.E. Housman (2:27).
OCLC
  • ocm53406390
  • 53406390
  • SCSB-5529523
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