Carl’s War: (Dedicated to my Mother on her 100th birthday)

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Incidental music doesn't come much more accomplished than this. Carl Davis has always had an enviable knack of matching music to pictures, and this CD will trigger sharp visual images...Most... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2010
Catalogue No: CDC009
Label: Carl Davis Collection
Length: 67 minutes

Davis, C: The World at War (Concert Version)

Work length5:15

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Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Carl Davis

Davis, C: Goodnight Mr. Tom Suite

Work length15:07

$4.00

$5.20

Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Carl Davis

I. Arrival

Track length5:00

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II. Going Fishing

Track length3:06

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III. Return to London

Track length4:24

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IV. Finale

Track length2:37

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Davis, C: Echoes That Remain

Work length16:39

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Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Carl Davis

I. Theme

Track length1:40

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II. Shtetl Main Street

Track length1:20

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III. Pogrom No. 1

Track length1:52

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IV. Pogrom No. 2

Track length1:28

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V. Names and Sayings

Track length3:14

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VI. Spring Cemetary

Track length1:53

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VII. Holidays No. 1

Track length1:03

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VIII. Holidays No. 2

Track length2:31

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IX. Remember

Track length1:38

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Davis, C: Anne Frank Remembered Suite

Work length12:30

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Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Carl Davis

I. Disappearance

Track length4:36

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II. Attic

Track length5:30

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III. Death of Anne Frank

Track length2:24

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Davis, C: The Snow Goose

Work length18:16

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$5.15

Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Carl Davis

Rhapsody on Themes

Track length18:16

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$5.15

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The internationally famous composer and conductor, Carl Davis, C.B.E. (Hon.) has written some of the most memorable and moving scores for films and documentary series about World War II. This CD re-works five of these into Concert Suites. The World at War, the ground-breaking Emmy Award winning twenty-six part series introduced by Carl Davis’s stirring theme is hailed as definitive. Digitally re-mastered on Blue-ray, the series will be actively advertised and promoted over the coming months.

Starring John Thaw and the fastest selling DVD ever, Goodnight Mr Tom is the touching story of a disturbed East End evacuee finding a new home in the idyllic English countryside. The music reflects the joys of country life, as well as the tragic events of the Blitz.

Award-winning Echoes That Remain, produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation, celebrates the culture of the Shetetl, the small Jewish settlements of Eastern Europe. Carl Davis’s score incorporates traditional Yiddish songs, as well as underlining the dark days of the destruction at the hands of the Nazis.

Anne Frank Remembered is an Academy Award winning film that gave fascinating insights into her life both before and after her years in the famous attic. Carl Davis’s score expresses the poetic spirit and courage of a budding writer, as well as the horrendous events closing in on her.

The Snow Goose - the most substantial work on the CD is based on Paul Gallico’s romantic novel, was beautifully translated to film, starring Jenny Agutter (winning her an Emmy) and Richard Harris. This new ‘Rhapsody’ combines all the major themes, closing with the music for the heroic rescue from Dunkirk.

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May 2011

Incidental music doesn't come much more accomplished than this. Carl Davis has always had an enviable knack of matching music to pictures, and this CD will trigger sharp visual images...Most effective is the Snow Goose Rhapsody, where the very English themes are developed into a stand-alone tone poem. Like everything else here, it's lovingly played, if rather brashly recorded.

March 2011

Davis has conducted a colourful, nuanced interpretation with the Czech Symphony Orchestra. Whatever he composes, there's a sense of joie de vivre at its core, and the orchestra has captured this.

March 2011

The title theme has lost none of its power to grip an audience and it remains one of his most potent and memorable themes...All this music is winningly played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under the composer's enthusiastic direction.

Carl’s War

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