Jacksonville Public Library

The pity of war, songs and poems of wartime suffering

eng

biography of performer or history of ensemblehistorical information

songs

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The pity of war

sound recording

53406390

Recorded Jan. 25, 2002, at BBC Maida Vale Studios, and July 15 and 27, 2003, at the Warehouse

songs and poems of wartime suffering

On the idle hill of summer / Arthur Somervell ; words by A.E. Housman (2:41) -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen (:54) -- Dirge for two veterans / Kurt Weill ; words by Walt Whitman (4:20) -- The children / James MacMillan ; words by William Soutar (6:20) -- Corporal Stare / Robert Graves (1:33) -- Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen / Gustav Mahler ; words by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano (6:20) -- He is there! / Charles Ives ; words by Charles Ives (4:16) -- Bleuet / Francis Poulenc ; words by Guillaume Apollinaire (3:11) -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke (1:06) -- The soldier / John Ireland ; words by Rupert Brooke (2:52) -- An den kleinen Radioapparat / Hanns Eisler ; words by Bertolt Brecht (1:18) -- Buddy on the nighshift / Kurt Weill ; words by Oscar Hammerstein II (2:47) -- The dancer / Michael Tippett ; words by Alun Lewis (2:19) -- Counter-attack / Siegfried Sassoon (2:25) -- Channel firing / Gerald Finzi ; words by Thomas Hardy (6:16) -- C / Francis Poulenc ; words by Louis Aragon (2:59) -- Hotelzimmer 1942 / Hanns Eisler ; words by Bertolt Brecht (2:02) -- Ma jeunesse / Reynaldo Hahn ; words by Hélène Vacaresco (2:20) -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen (1:55) -- The children / Benjamin Britten ; words by William Soutar (4:44) -- Le disparu / Francis Poulenc ; words by Robert Desnos (1:37) -- Severn meadows / Ivor Gurney ; words by Ivor Gurney (1:46) -- The parable of the old man and the young / Wilfred Owen (:58) -- The lads in their hundreds / George Butterworth ; words by A.E. Housman (2:27)