Britten on Film

Album by Benjamin Britten

Released 12 March 2007

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

More by Benjamin Britten

Release credits

Issues