| Description |
1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
010942 |
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performed music prm rdacontent |
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audio s rdamedia |
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audio disc sd rdacarrier |
| Series |
BBC music magazine ; v. 12, no. 3 |
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BBC music magazine ; v. 12, no. 3.
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| Performer |
Sally Matthews, soprano (4th, 6th, 12th, 16th, and 18th works) ; Mark Padmore, tenor (3rd, 8th, 11th, 13th, 17th, and 20th-21st works) ; Christopher Maltman, baritone (1st, 7th, 10th, 15th, 22nd, and 24th works) ; Iain Burnside or Roger Vignoles, piano ; Simon Russell Beale, reader (poems) (2nd, 5th, 9th, 14th, 19th, and 23rd works) ; Ann Allen, piccolo (7th work). |
| Event |
Recorded Jan. 25, 2002, at BBC Maida Vale Studios, and July 15 and 27, 2003, at the Warehouse. |
| Note |
Issued with BBC music magazine, Nov. 2003. |
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Compact disc. |
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Program notes by Iain Burnside and biographical notes on the performers (7 p. : ports.) inserted in container. |
| 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 nighshift / 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). |
| Credits |
Producer, Clive Portbury. |
| Language |
Sung or spoken in English (1st-5th, 7th, 9th-10th, 12th-15th, 19th-20th, and 22nd-24th works), German (6th, 11th, and 17th), or French (8th, 16th, 18th, and 21st). |
| Subject |
War songs -- Sound recordings.
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Songs with piano -- Sound recordings.
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Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble -- Sound recordings.
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War poetry, English -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Matthews, Sally, 1975- performer.
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Padmore, Mark, performer.
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Maltman, Christopher, performer.
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Burnside, Iain, performer.
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Vignoles, Roger, performer.
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Beale, Simon Russell, narrator.
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Allen, Ann (Piccolo player), performer.
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Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918.
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Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
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Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915.
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Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
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Somervell, Arthur, 1863-1937.
Shropshire lad. On the idle hill of summer.
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Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
Walt Whitman songs. Dirge for two veterans.
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MacMillan, James, 1959-
Children.
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Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.
Knaben Wunderhorn. Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; arranged.
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Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.
He is there!
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Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963.
Songs. Selections.
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Ireland, John, 1879-1962.
Songs (1917-1918). Soldier.
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Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962.
An den kleinen Radioapparat.
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Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
Buddy on the nightshift.
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Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998.
Heart's assurance. Dancer.
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Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956.
Before and after summer. Channel firing.
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Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962.
Hotelzimmer 1942.
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Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947.
Ma jeunesse.
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Who are these children? Children.
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Gurney, Ivor, 1890-1937.
Severn meadows.
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Butterworth, George, 1885-1916.
Songs from A Shropshire lad. Lads in their hundreds.
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| Added Title |
Songs and poems of wartime suffering |
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BBC music magazine.
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| Music No. |
BBC MM235 BBC Music Magazine |
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