Remembrance Day. Music by composers killed during World War I. John Gielgud reads Laurence Binyon’s For the Fallen. William Schuman’s Symphony No.9 (The Ardeatine Caves)/Eugene Ormandy. The Last Spring. Henry V. Bach/Stokowski.

Nov 10, 2024 | News, Videos | 2 comments

Cecil Coles (1888-1918)

National Youth Orchestra of Scotland/Martyn Brabbins (broadcast from 2003).

Rudi Stephan (1887-1915)

Ernest Farrar (1885-1918)

William Schuman Symphony No.9 (The Ardeatine Caves). Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy (RCA).

“The Ardeatine massacre, or Fosse Ardeatine massacre, was a mass killing of 335 civilians and political prisoners carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for the Via Rasella attack in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen the previous day.”

From William Walton’s music for Olivier’s Henry V. ASMF/Neville Marriner.

BBC Symphony Orchestra; May 12, 2001.

2 Comments

    • canderson
      canderson on November 11, 2024 at 3:01 am

      Thanks Ates. I didn’t forget Butterworth but I did overlook him at the final call. I’m adding his Two English Idylls (LPO/Boult, Lyrita), the second of which seems to allude to the ‘Dies irae’. Prophetic. Try from 6:25 on the following:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVY3C29RnyQ

      Reply

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