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Time Traveller: Wartime Britain

Daniel Adni (piano), Vera Lynn (vocals), Noel Coward (vocals), Al Bowlly (vocals), Dame Myra Hess (piano)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Light Music Society Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Band of HM Royal Marines, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra,...

Release Date: 12th Mar 2012
Catalogue No: 6790122
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Time Traveller
Length: 76 minutes

Walton: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

Work length8:04

$2.60

$3.40

Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir William Walton
Recorded: 1994-01-01
Recording Venue: 16 October 1963, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Prelude

Track length3:46

$1.30

$1.70

Fugue

Track length4:18

$1.30

$1.70

Gibbs, C A: Dusk (from Fancy Dress - Dance Suite Op. 82)

Work length3:32

$1.30

$1.70

Light Music Society Orchestra
Lt. Col. Sir Vivian Dunn
Recorded: 1969-12-03
Recording Venue: 3 December 1969 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto

Work length8:57

$1.30

$1.70

Daniel Adni (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Alwyn
Recorded: 1979-06-29
Recording Venue: 28 & 29 June 1979 / The Guildhall, Southampton

Nat Burton, Walter Kent: White Cliffs Of Dover

Work length3:04

$1.30

$1.70

Vera Lynn (vocals)
Recorded: 1942-01-01

Alford: Colonel Bogey March

Work length2:54

$1.30

$1.70

Band of HM Royal Marines
Lt. Col. Sir Vivian Dunn
Recorded: 1989-01-01
Recording Venue: 5 & 6 March 1959, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Walton: Touch her soft lips and part (from Henry V)

Work length1:46

$1.30

$1.70

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1971-07-22
Recording Venue: 21 & 22 July 1971 / Kingsway Hall, London

Coates, E: Knightsbridge March from London Suite

Work length4:21

$1.30

$1.70

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves
Recorded: 1970-07-02
Recording Venue: 1 & 2 July 1970, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

Coward, N: London Pride

Work length3:20

Album only

Noel Coward (vocals)
Carroll Gibbons
Recorded: 1941-07-03

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D (1994 - Remaster): III. Romanza (Lento)

Work length12:10

Album only

Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded: 1962-05-09
Recording Venue: 8 & 9 May 1962. Kingsway Hall, London

Davies, Walford: March Past of the Royal Air Force

Work length2:00

$1.30

$1.70

Central Band of the Royal Air Force
Wing Cdr J. L. Wallace
Recorded: 1967-12-08
Recording Venue: 7-8 December 1967/No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

James Campbell, Ray Noble, Reginald Connelly: Goodnight Sweetheart

Work length3:23

$1.30

$1.70

Al Bowlly (vocals)
Recorded: 1931-01-01

Coates, E: Calling All Workers

Work length3:10

$1.30

$1.70

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Reginald Kilbey
Recorded: 1971-04-16
Recording Venue: 15 & 16 April 1971, Great Hall, University of Birmingham

Bath: Cornish Rhapsody

Work length5:36

$1.30

$1.70

Daniel Adni (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Alwyn
Recorded: 1979-06-29
Recording Venue: 28 & 29 June 1979, Guildhall, Southampton

Hugh Charles, Ross Parker: There'll Always Be An England

Work length2:59

$1.30

$1.70

Vera Lynn (vocals)
Recorded: 1962-01-01

Curzon: The Boulevardier

Work length3:37

$1.30

$1.70

Light Music Society Orchestra
Lt. Col. Sir Vivian Dunn
Recorded: 1969-10-14
Recording Venue: 14 October 1969/No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Bach, J S: Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' BWV147 (1990 Digital Remaster): Choral: Jesu bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man's desiring) (arr. Hess)

Work length3:40

$1.30

$1.70

Dame Myra Hess (piano)
Recorded: 1957-10-12
Recording Venue: 12 October 1957 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Coates, E: Dam Busters March

Work length3:55

$1.30

$1.70

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves
Recorded: 1995-01-01
Recording Venue: 16-18 December 1976, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

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Britain’s Finest Hour – and six years of cataclysm, stoicism and heroism – are recalled by this richly varied collection of music associated with the Second World War.

From Forces’ Sweetheart Vera Lynn to the National Gallery’s pianist, Dame Myra Hess, and from the cinematic sweep of William Walton and Richard Addinsell to the dapper sophistication of Eric Coates and restrained sentiment of Noël Coward, this treasury of hits from the blitz salutes an era never to be forgotten.

This musical portrait of Britain at war takes off with the Spitfire and lands with the Lancasters of 617 Squadron – the Dam Busters. In between are many of the best-loved melodies that helped unite all ranks and classes in the conflict.

The collection’s still centre is the serene slow movement of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony, a work whose 1943 première was sensed as a harbinger of piece.

Either side are marches, popular film scores, light-music hits and – impossible without – Dame Vera Lynn.

The favourite marches include Colonel Bogey, the RAF March Past and (as well as the Dam Busters) Coates’s Knightsbridge.

The film scores lead with Walton’s First of the Few and take in his celebrated music for Olivier’s Henry V as well as the romantic mini-concertos for Dangerous Moonlight (‘Warsaw Concerto’) and Love Story.

Among the vintage recordings, Sir Noël Coward stirs our ‘London Pride’, the crooner Al Bowlly (killed in the Blitz) bids ‘Goodnight, Sweetheart’, and – just before the final flypast and busting of dams – Dame Myra Hess reminds us of the legendary National Gallery concerts with her own arrangement of ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’.

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Daniel Adni (piano), Vera Lynn (vocals), Noel Coward (vocals), Al Bowlly (vocals), Dame Myra Hess (piano)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Light Music Society Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Band of HM Royal Marines, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Central Band of the Royal Air Force, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir William Walton, Lt. Col. Sir Vivian Dunn, Kenneth Alwyn, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Charles Groves, Carroll Gibbons, Sir John Barbirolli, Wing Cdr J. L. Wallace, Reginald Kilbey

Time Traveller: Wartime Britain

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