Sunday Morning - Remembrance

Iain is joined by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion to dip into a selection of pieces about war, reflecting on the power of music to evoke it. With works by Stravinsky, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Milhaud. Including: Debussy: Berceuse Heroique 4’43 ORTF Orch/Jean Martinon EMI CDM7695872 tr9 Gustav Holst: Ode to Death 12’25 London Symphony Chorus/City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox (conductor) Chandos CHAN9437 tr10 Cecil Coles Estaminet de Carrefour 3’15 BBC SSO/Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Hyperion CDA 67293 tr 11 Erik Satie: Parade/Prestidigitateur chinois 3’40 The New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp (conductor) Helios CDH55176 tr 3 Sweeping the clouds away 2’39 Maurice Chevalier ASV CDAJA5016 tr 2 Elgar Violin Sonata 26’13 Midori (vln)/ Robert McDonald (pno) Sony Classical SK63331 tr 1-3 Wilfred Owen The Send Off 1’30 (read LIVE by Andrew Motion) Benjamin Britten War Requiem 3’30 One ever hangs where shelled roads part (Wilfred Owen) Peter Pears (tenor) / New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus / Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) BBCL 4046-2 tr 15 Ivor Gurney Lights Out 3’45 Text: Edward Thomas Roderick Williams (baritone) / Susie Allan (piano) SOMM 057 tr15 Ivor Gurney The Silent One 1’15 (read LIVE by Andrew Motion) John Adams The Wound Dresser 19’15 Text: Walt Whitman Nathan Gunn (baritone) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop (conductor) Naxos 8.559031 tr 2 Stravinsky L’Histoire du Soldat Danse du Diable / Marche triomphale du Diable Members of Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez (conductor) DG 471 197 T.13 + 15 3’40 Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 "Pastoral" Margaret Price (mezzo) / New Philharmonia Orchestra/ Sir Adrian Boult (conductor) EMI CDC7472142 T.4 d 10.04 10’04