Britten on Film

Tracklist

• 1
  Night Mail: Title Music
  0:47
• 2
  Night Mail: Percussion Sequence
  0:55
• 3
  Night Mail: End Sequence
  4:10
• 4
  The Tocher (Rossini Suite): 1. Allegro brillante
  1:53
• 5
  The Tocher (Rossini Suite): 2. Allegretto
  2:20
• 6
  The Tocher (Rossini Suite): 3. Allegretto
  2:01
• 7
  The Tocher (Rossini Suite): 4. Bolero: Allegro moderato
  2:00
• 8
  The Tocher (Rossini Suite): 5. Allegro con brio
  1:23
• 9
  The King's Stamp: Part 1, Allegro molto alla marcia
  0:38
• 10
  The King's Stamp: Part 1, Allegro: Opening Door
  2:20
• 11
  The King's Stamp: Part 1, Allegretto: Messenger Boy
  0:40
• 12
  The King's Stamp: Part 1, Lento ma non troppo: Entry To Lithograph Works
  1:46
• 13
  The King's Stamp: Part 1, Allegro moderato: Stamp Factory - Machine Starts
  2:48
• 14
  The King's Stamp: Part 2, Minuet: Andante Lento
  0:56
• 15
  The King's Stamp: Part 2, Allegretto: Train Sequence
  1:37
• 16
  The King's Stamp: Part 2, Allegretto: Parliament - The Stamp Bill
  0:53
• 17
  The King's Stamp: Part 2, Allegro
  1:12
• 18
  The King's Stamp: Part 2, Allegro moderato alla marcia
  1:22
• 19
  Negroes - Music from GPO Film: Allegro appassionato - Title Music - 1. Allegro - "In the Middle Ages"
  3:01
• 20
  Negroes - Music from GPO Film: 2. Allegro - "Then the Portuguese and Spaniards"
  1:04
• 21
  Negroes - Music from GPO Film: 3. Allegro ritmico - "At the Mouth of the Senegal"
  1:04
• 22
  Negroes - Music from GPO Film: 4. Andante con moto - "To Sail From Africa to Jamaica"
  1:08
• 23
  Negroes - Music from GPO Film: "The Slaves Were the Absolute Property of Their Masters"
  0:58
• 24
  Negroes - Music from GPO Film: 5. Andante lento -"The More Advanced Thinkers in Europe"
  1:32
• 25
  Negroes - Music from GPO Film: 6. Andante con molto moto - "Still at Their Accustomed Hour"
  3:26
• 26
  Negroes - Music from GPO Film: 7. Allegro ritmico - "Coffee From the Blue Mountains"
  0:55
• 27
  The Way to the Sea: Introduction
  0:33
• 28
  The Way to the Sea: Romans
  0:39
• 29
  The Way to the Sea: Alfred
  0:48
• 30
  The Way to the Sea: "There Is, at This Point of the Haven"
  1:27
• 31
  The Way to the Sea: "The Eighteenth Century"
  1:19
• 32
  The Way to the Sea: "Nelson Has Gone"
  0:56
• 33
  The Way to the Sea: "169 Trains a Week"
  0:41
• 34
  The Way to the Sea: "The Line Waits"
  2:56
• 35
  The Way to the Sea: "Here Is a Harbour"
  3:00
• 36
  The Way to the Sea: "We Seek a Spectacle"
  1:16
• 37
  The Way to the Sea: Allegro molto - alla marcia
  1:54
• 38
  Telegrams
  2:34
• 39
  Peace of Britain
  1:32
• 40
  Men Behind the Meters: Title Music
  0:22
• 41
  Men Behind the Meters: Andantino: "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls"
  1:34
• 42
  Men Behind the Meters: Allegro moderato: 1935 Sequence
  1:20
• 43
  Coal Face: 1. Andante: "A Sterile Landscape"
  0:39
• 44
  Coal Face: 2. "Coal Mining Is the Basic Industry of Britain"
  1:10
• 45
  Coal Face: 3. Andante: "The Chief Coal-Producing Centres"
  0:42
• 46
  Coal Face: 4. "Yorkshire and Lancashire"
  1:01
• 47
  Coal Face: 5. Moderato: "The Temp'rature Often Reaches"
  0:28
• 48
  Coal Face: 6. Andante: "The Seven and a Half Hour Shift"
  0:47
• 49
  Coal Face: 7. Ad Libitum Sempre: "One Thirty A.M."
  0:50
• 50
  Coal Face: 8. Allegro ma non troppo: "In Many Pits"
  1:04
• 51
  Coal Face: 9. Allegro molto: "The Shift Is Finished"
  2:03
• 52
  Coal Face: 10. "Making Up Coal Trains"
  2:26
• 53
  Coal Face: 11. Allegro: "Coal Mining Is the Basic Industry"
  0:14
• 54
  Coal Face: 12. Andante: "There Are the Miners"
  0:28
• 55
  When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection
  0:53

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A Ceremony of Carols

A Ceremony of Carols 1993

Prokofiev: Classical Symphony / Bizet: Symphony in C / Britten: Simple Symphony

Prokofiev: Classical Symphony / Bizet: Symphony in C / Britten: Simple Symphony 1988

Release credits

• Adam Green
  baritone vocals [19-26, 43-54], solo [19-26, 43-54]
• Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  instrument [51], performing orchestra
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus
  choir vocals [19-26, 43-54]
• Colin Matthews
  producer
• Daniel Auchincloss
  solo [19-26, 43-54], tenor vocals [19-26, 43-54]
• Emma Paffley
  editor
• King Edward School Boy's Choir
  choir vocals [4-8, 38]
• Malcolm Wilson
  piano [55]
• Martyn Brabbins
  conductor
• Mary Carewe
  solo [19-26, 55], soprano vocals [19-26, 55]
• Mike Clements
  engineer
• Simon Russell Beale
  spoken vocals [1-3, 27-37, 43-54]

Issues

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  Britten on Film

  CD
  12 March 2007