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Choral scenes

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Choral scenes : the Western Front, World War I / The Astra Choir with speakers and instruments ; conductor: John McCaughey

  • Published by Astra Chamber Music Society — 2009 [ASTRA CD 7] — 1 CD (47 min.)
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  • Library Availability: CD 2061 — Reference (not for loan) copy only

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This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
Choral scenes (1999) a work for speakers, chorus and instruments
Recorded/performed at: St. Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne, on 11 Sep 99.
Helen Gifford John McCaughey, Astra Choir, Moyra O'Byrne, Mardi McSullea, Craig Hill, Paul Kopetz, Rosanne Hunt, David Martin, Kim Bastin, John Arcaro, Robert Cossom, Graeme Leak, Helen Gifford 47 mins, 25 sec.

Product details

Duration: 47 min.

Contents note:

And some there be / Ecclesiasticus -- Vox mortuorum, nox pertpetua (Latin phrase) -- The dead / René Arcos -- Wache (Guard duty) / August Stramm -- Exposure / Wilfred Owen -- For all we have and are / Rudyard Kipling -- The trenches / Frederic Manning -- Counter-attack / Siegfried Sassoon -- In Flanders fields / John McRae -- Grotesque with 2 soldiers' songs & Chorale Der du bist drei / Frederic Manning -- Lazarett (Clearing station) / Wilhelm Klemm -- Relève (Relief) / Charles Vildrac -- Third Ypres / Edmund Blunden -- For the fallen / Laurence Binyon -- Shadow / Guillaume Apollinaire -- The farmer remembers the Somme / Vance Palmer -- Adieu, the years are a broken song / anon. Australian.

Booklet includes text of poems and biographical information on composer and poets.


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