Title:
Songs of war and peace [CD].
Corporate Author:
Added Author:
Publication Date:
1995
Publication Information:
Vancouver, BC : Skylark, [1995?]
Physical Description:
1 compact disc (61 min., 12 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
General Note:
Skylark: 9501.
Program notes in English with texts in original language with English translations in booklet.
Performers:
Chor Leoni Men's Chorus ; Stephen Smith, piano ; Philip Crewe, percussion ; Salvador Ferreras, drum ; Christopher Gaze, reader ; Diane Loomer, conductor.
Contents:
For the fallen / text, Laurence Binyon ; music, Mike Sammes -- In Flanders fields / John McCrae -- A stopwatch and an ordnance map, op. 15 / text, Stephen Spender ; music, Samuel Barber -- Blow ye the trumpet, op. 51 / Kirke Mechem -- Parti di mal : trouvère Crusade song / Anon. -- Il brivido / text, Pascoli ; music, Marco Enrico Bossi -- The soldiers' chorus / text, Barbier ; music, Gounod -- Varjele, Jumala, soasta / Velijo Tormis -- Una sañosa porfía / Juan del Encino -- Danny Deever / text, Rudyard Kipling ; music, Percy Aldridge Grainger -- An Irish airman foresees his death / text, W.B. Yeats ; music, Byron Adams ; Sydämeni laulu / Jean Sibelius -- And the band played Waltzing Matilda / Eric Bogle -- Songs soldiers sing. Lili Marlene ; Socts wha hae wi' Wallace bled ; It's a long way to Tipperary ; White cliffs of Dover ; Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag ; We'll meet again -- The minstrel boy : an Irish air / Thomas Moore ; arr. Ron Jeffers -- Over yonder : American spiritual -- We shall walk through the valley in peace : American spiritual / arr. Appling.
Language:
Multiple languages
Additional Language:
Sung in English, French, Italian, Finnish, Spanish and German.