The Great War Remembered in Songs and Poems

Catalogue No: DDV 24164
EAN/UPC: 809730416422
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Release Date: August 18, 2017
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Discs: 1
Total Playing Time: 55:37

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The long and vibrant tradition of art-song in England has seen many great composers from Finzi to Vaughan Williams, Gurney to Moeran and Warlock and countless more, supported for many years now by the English Poetry and Song Society.

This is the third of four albums of live EPSS concert performances made by Dunelm for private use and now on general release due to demand; it contains works by major composers and also the seven excellent finalists in the EPSS competition of 2004. The concert commemorates the tragic victims of the 1914-8 war including poet/composer Ivor Gurney amongst others.

These EPSS recordings were made on portable recording equipment and with less than ideal microphone placement and are not to our usual modern standard. However they contain fine performances and many very unfamiliar and exquisite songs, which will delight any lover of late-Romantic vocal music.

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  1. I want to go home (1:03)
  2. Ivor Gurney
  3. The Dying Patriot (3:06)
  4. Everyone Sang (1:36)
  5. If We Return (1:57)
  6. In Flanders (2:56)
  7. In Memoriam, Easter 1915 (1:03)
  8. I Heard a Soldier (2:41)
  9. Geraint Lewis
  10. It’s not going to happen again (2:36)
  11. The Treasure (2:34)
  12. Clouds (2:45)
  13. Song (1:54)
  14. Geoffrey Kimpton
  15. Winter Warfare (1:56)
  16. Margaret Wegener
  17. The Cenotaph (3:37)
  18. John R. Williamson
  19. Before the battle (2:28)
  20. I stood with the dead (3:46)
  21. Duncan Reid
  22. I did not lose my heart (2:09)
  23. Dennis Wickens
  24. Attack (5;14)
  25. Elaine Hugh-Jones
  26. The End (3:09)
  27. John Ireland
  28. The Soldier (2:14)
  29. Blind (1:24)
  30. The Cost (1;18)
  31. The Dead (2:29)
  32. Jerome Kern
  33. We’ll Never Tell Them (1:50)

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  1. 01
    I want to go home (1:03)



  2. 02
    The Dying Patriot (3:06)



  3. 03
    Everyone Sang (1:36)



  4. 04
    If We Return (1:57)



  5. 05
    In Flanders (2:56)



  6. 06
    In Memoriam, Easter 1915 (1:03)



  7. 07
    I Heard a Soldier (2:41)



  8. 08
    It's not going to happen again (2:36)



  9. 09
    The Treasure (2:34)



  10. 10
    Clouds (2:45)



  11. 11
    Song (1:54)



  12. 12
    Winter Warfare (1:56)



  13. 13
    The Cenotaph (3:37)



  14. 14
    Before the battle (2:28)



  15. 15
    I stood with the dead (3:46)



  16. 16
    I did not lose my heart (2:09)



  17. 17
    Attack (5;14)



  18. 18
    The End (3:09)



  19. 19
    The Soldier (2:14)



  20. 20
    Blind (1:24)



  21. 21
    The Cost (1;18)



  22. 22
    The Dead (2:29)



  23. 23
    We'll Never Tell Them (1:50)