5023363011228

Britten On Film

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Choir of King Edward's School, Birmingham, Martyn Brabbins

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Format: CD

Cat No: NMCD112

Release Date:  17 March 2007

Label:  NMC Recordings

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5023363011228

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary  

  • Description

    This disc brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of all the surviving music that Benjamin Britten wrote during the 1930s for the General Post Office (GPO), Southern Railways and other organisations. It features premiere recordings of Coal Face, The Way to the Sea, Men Behind the Meters, Peace of Britain, The King's Stamp and Telegrams, plus the first recording of the complete music for Night Mail.

    The scores for this recording were specially reconstructed from manuscript and other sources held at the Britten-Pears Library, by composers Joseph Phibbs and Lloyd Moore under the supervision of Colin Matthews, Executive Producer of NMC and Director of the Britten Estate, which has funded the recording.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Title Music
      • 2. Percussion Sequence
      • 3. End Sequence
      • 4. Allegro Brillante
      • 5. Allegretto
      • 6. Allegretto
      • 7. Bolero: Allegro moderato
      • 8. Allegro Con Brio
      • 9. Allegro molto alla marcia
      • 10. Allegro: 'Opening door...'
      • 11. Allegretto: 'Messenger boy'
      • 12. Lento ma non troppo: 'Entry to lithograph works'
      • 13. Allegro moderato: 'Stamp factory - Machine starts'
      • 14. Minuet: Andante lento
      • 15. Allegretto: 'Train sequence'
      • 16. Allegretto: 'Parliament - The Stamp Bill'
      • 17. Allegro
      • 18. Allegro Moderato Alla Marcia
      • 19. Allegro appassionato: Title Music
      • 20. Allegro: 'In the middle ages'
      • 21. Allegro: 'Then the Portuguese and Spaniards'
      • 22. Allegro ritmico: 'At the mouth of the Senegal'
      • 23. Andante con moto: 'To sail from Africa to Jamaica'
      • 24. Andante lento: 'The more advanced thinkers in Europe'
      • 25. Andante con molto moto: 'Still at their accustomed hour'
      • 26. Allegro ritmico: 'Coffee from the Blue Mountains'
      • 27. Allegro: Introduction
      • 28. Andante maestoso: Romans
      • 29. Andante maestoso: Alfred
      • 30. Moderato: There is, at this point of the haven
      • 31. Allegro: The eighteenth century
      • 32. Allegro con fuoco: Nelson has gone
      • 33. Lento e pesante: 169 trains a week
      • 34. The line waits
      • 35. Piu lento: Here is a harbour
      • 36. Slow: We seek a spectacle
      • 37. Allegro molto - alla marcia
      • 38. Telegrams - Benjamin Britten
      • 39. Peace Of Britain - Benjamin Britten
      • 40. Title Music
      • 41. Andantino: I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls
      • 42. Allegro moderato: 1935 Sequence
      • 43. Andante: A sterile landscape
      • 44. Coal mining is the basic industry of Britain
      • 45. Andante: The chief coal-producing centres
      • 46. Yorkshire and Lancashire
      • 47. Moderato: The temp'rature often reaches
      • 48. Andante: The seven and a half hour shift
      • 49. Ad libitum sempre: One thirty a.m.
      • 50. Allegro ma non troppo: In many pits
      • 51. Allegro molto: The shift is finished
      • 52. Making up coal trains
      • 53. Allegro: Coal mining is the basic industry
      • 54. Andante: There are the miners
      • 55. When you're feeling like expressing your affection - Benjamin Britten