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

Publication Info. [London] : BBC Music Magazine, [2003]
℗2003

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Description 1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
stereo
digital recording
Series BBC music magazine ; v. 12, no. 3
BBC music magazine ; v. 12, no. 3.
Performer Sally Matthews, soprano (4th, 6th, 12th, 16th, and 18th works); Mark Padmore, tenor (3rd, 8th, 11th, 13th, 17th, and 20th-21st); Christopher Maltman, baritone (1st, 7th, 10th, 15th, 22nd, and 24th); Iain Burnside or Roger Vignoles, piano; Simon Russell Beale, reader (poems); Ann Allen, piccolo (7th).
Event Recorded Jan. 25, 2002, at BBC Maida Vale Studios, and July 15 and 27, 2003, at the Warehouse.
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.
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 (2:52) -- 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).
Genre/Form Military music.
Military music.
Subject Songs with piano.
Songs with piano.
Genre/Form Songs with piano.
Subject Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble.
Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble.
War poetry, English.
War poetry, English.
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Songs.
Songs.
Added Author 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. Shropshire lad. On the idle hill of summer.
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Walt Whitman songs. Dirge for two veterans.
MacMillan, James, 1959- Children.
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Knaben Wunderhorn. Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; arranged.
Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. He is there!
Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Songs. Selections.
Ireland, John, 1879-1962. Songs (1917-1918). Soldier.
Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962. An den kleinen Radioapparat.
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Buddy on the nightshift.
Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998. Heart's assurance. Dancer.
Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956. Before and after summer. Channel firing.
Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962. Hotelzimmer 1942.
Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947. Ma jeunesse.
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Who are these children? Children.
Gurney, Ivor, 1890-1937. Severn meadows.
Butterworth, George, 1885-1916. Songs from A Shropshire lad. Lads in their hundreds.
Added Title BBC music magazine.
Music No. BBC MM235 BBC Music Magazine