Video taken from a live performance on November 13th, 2022 at St James’s Piccadilly in London – fundraising in support of Help for Heroes. https://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/give…
VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE
Music by LAURA ROSSI
Narrated by VANESSA REDGRAVE
Conducted by PETER ROBERTSON
Leader JAMES SANDALLS
Performed by Members of Ealing Symphony Orchestra & Fever Pitch Choir (Dir. Elinor Corp)
Performance produced by Peter Robertson & Laura Rossi.
Video & Audio from livestream edited by Peter Robertson & Paul Darling
VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE was inspired by 10 of the most famous poems of the First World War. During her research for the score for The Battle of the Somme for the Imperial War Museum, Laura discovered that her Great Uncle Fred was a stretcher-bearer attached to the 29th Division during July 1916, who featured in the film. Drawing on these experiences and extensive research on the First World War, Laura has created a richly evocative work that combines stunningly beautiful music with these historically important poems read by Vanessa Redgrave.
Break of Day in the Trenches – poem by Isaac Rosenberg
1. Break of Day in the Trenches (orchestral)
2. The Soldier poem by Rupert Brooke (choral/orchestral setting)
Into Battle – poem by Julian Grenfell
3. Into Battle (orchestral)
Before Action – poem by William Noel Hodgson
4. Before Action (orchestral)
5. A Lark above the Trenches poem by John William Streets (choral/orchestral setting)
Dulce et Decorum est – poem by Wilfred Owen
6. Dulce et Decorum est (orchestral/ choral)
Anthem for Doomed Youth – poem by Wilfred Owen
7. Anthem for Doomed Youth (orchestral)
In Memoriam – poem by Ewart Alan Mackintosh
8. In Memoriam (orchestral)
In Flanders Fields – poem by John McCrae
9. In Flanders Fields (orchestral)
10. For the Fallen poem by Robert Binyon (choral/orchestral setting)
