Various Artists - Britten: Britten To America [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.What better way to mark the end of Britten's centenary than release some unrecorded works, the majority of which haven't been heard since they were performed in the 1940s. This is Britten with a difference - there are blues numbers, jazz, a 'Tibetan' chant, a Bach chorale and even a ukulele player.rr

Britten made the hazardous journey from the United States back to England in the spring of 1942. Within a few weeks he had face a Tribunal exempting him from military service as a conscientious objector. In his statement to the Tribunal he had said 'I believe sincerely that I can help my fellow human beings best, by continuing the work I am best qualified to do', and almost immediately he began giving concerts with Peter Pears in towns, rural villages and prisons. He also wrote major scores for radio propaganda programmes, including An American in England, six programmes about wartime conditions in England produced by the BBC for live transmission in the USA by CBS; and Britain to America, three programmes as part of a weekly transmission by NBC.rr

Music from these two series is accompanied by incidental music to two plays by Auden and Isherwood: The Ascent of F6 and On the Frontier; and Roman Wall Blues, from a lost radio production with Auden, Hadrian's Wall.

Overture

Entr'actes for Mr & Mrs A.

Entr'acte and Gunn's Song

O Brothers!

Pantomime

Mother's Song

Act II Prelude

Chant

Climbing Music

Gunn's Song

Climbing Music

Cabaret Jazz Song

O Senseless Hurricanes

Funeral March and Chorus

Blues: Stop All the Clocks

Mother's Song With Chorus

Chorale

London By Clipper

Dover to London

Ration Island

London

You Walk Down to a Part of the City

Warren. To My Dearly Beloved Boy

It's a Beautiful August Morning

Within 50 Yards

Your First Factory

After the Last War

You Set Out for a Training Camp

Roman Wall Blues

Overture

Ad Libitum

The Clock On the Wall Has an Electric Tick

Prisoner's Monologue

Fanfare, Act I, Scene I

Moderato, After Act I, Scene I

Fanfare, Act III, Scene II

Marching Songs

Ostnian National Anthem

Waltz

Journalists' Song

Interlude

End Chorus

Britain to America: Where Do We Go from Here?

• Product Type: AUDIO CD
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