Performers:
Gustav Holst, composer ; Edward Elgar, composer ; Samuel Barber, composer ; Georg Friedrich Handel, composer ; Claude Debussy, composer ; Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer ; Richard Baker, narrator ; Simon Williams, narrator ; Bernard Cribbins, narrator ; Joanna Lumley, narrator ; Simon Williams, narrator ; John Kiszley, narrator ; Gordon Lorenz, narrator ; Stephen Fry, narrator ; Nigel Havers, narrator ; Simon Williams, narrator ; John Humphrys, narrator ; The Coldstream Guards Band, wind band ; The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, wind band ; Gordon Fergus-Thompson, piano ; Hayley Westenra, soprano ; Vera Lynn, voice ; Rupert Brooke, writer ; William Shakespeare, writer ; Siegfried Sassoon, writer ; A. E. Housman, writer ; Laurence Binyon, writer ; Wilfred Owen, writer ; Rupert Brooke, writer ; John McCrae, writer ; William Walker, writer ; Jocelyn Brooke, writer ; Dylan Thomas, writer ; Noel Coward, writer ; Mary Elizabeth Frye, writer ; Alun Lewis, writer ; John Hawkhead, writer ; Hannah Carpenter, writer ; Phil Williams, writer ; Jane Weir, writer ; Andrew McFarlane, writer ; Laurence Binyon, writer ; John Maxwell Edmonds, writer.
Contents:
Newsreel no. 1/The planets, op. 32, 'Saturn'/Enigma variations, op. 36: Variation 5
The Tempest/Enigma variations, op. 36: Variation 5
The soldier/Adagio
At daybreak/Adagio
On the idle hill of summer/Adagio
Aftermath/Enigma variations, op. 36: Variation 1
Newsreel no. 2/Silent night
For the fallen/Enigma variations: Nimrod
The general/Suite no. 3 in G: Sarabande
Anthem for doomed youth/Claire de lune
Safety/Partita: Intermezzo
In Flanders field/Partita: Prelude
I vow to thee my country
Newsreel no. 3
Our wall/The planets, op. 32, 'Mars'
Soldier's song/Pomp and circumstance, op. 39, 'March no. 3 in C minor'
The hand that signed the paper/Pomp and circumstance, op. 39, 'March no. 3 in C minor'
And death shall have no dominion/Pomp and circumstance, op. 39, 'March no. 3 in C minor'
Le carnaval des animaux /Paraphrase/The swan
Lie in the dark and listen/Water music
Do not stand at my grave and weep/Water music: No. 2 adagio E staccato
All day it has rained/Enigma variations, op. 36: Variation 3
Amazing grace
Newsreel no. 4
The future/The lark ascending
Helmand/The lark ascending
I am with you/The lark ascending
Reality in Afghanistan/The lark ascending
Poppies/The lark ascending
They tell me/Fantasia on greensleeves
Sunset vigil/Hymn to the fallen
For the fallen/Reveille
Kohima verse/Pomp and circumstance, op. 39: 'March no. 3 in C minor'.
Summary:
A unique recording project which brings together a cast of celebrity readers, actors, TV presenters and others in the public eye - to read poems of remembrance from times past and present, which are mixed with well known classical themes.
