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Special offer. Britten on Film

Simon Russell Beale (narrator) & Mary Carewe (soprano)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Choir of King

Edwards’ Boys School, Birmingham, Martyn Brabbins

Britten's short period with the GPO Film Unit and other similar organisations proved to be key training for his musico-dramatic skills. The performances, by the BCMG and assorted choirs and... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…
  • Release Date: 19th Mar 2007
  • Catalogue No: NMCD112
  • Label: NMC
  • Length: 77 minutes

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Contents

Britten: Title Music (From "Night Mail")

Work length0:47
$1.00
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  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins
  • Recorded: 11-12 March 2006
  • Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Britten: Percussion Sequence (From "Night Mail")

Work length0:55
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins
  • Recorded: 11-12 March 2006
  • Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Britten: This Is the Night Mail Crossing the Border (From "Night Mail")

Work length4:08
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins
  • Recorded: 11-12 March 2006
  • Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Britten: The Tocher Suite

Work length9:32
$5.00
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  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Choir of King Edward's School at Birmingham
  • Martyn Brabbins

I. Allegro brilliante

Track length1:53
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II. Allegretto

Track length2:20
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III. Allegretto

Track length2:01
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IV. Bolero. Allegro moderato

Track length2:00
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V. Allergro con brio

Track length1:18
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Britten: Allegro molto alla marcia (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length0:38
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  • Malcolm Wilson, Clare Findlater, Chris Richards

Britten: Allegro. Opening Door (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length2:20
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$1.50
  • Malcolm Wilson, Clare Findlater, Chris Richards

Britten: Allegretto. Messenger Boy (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length0:40
$1.00
$1.50
  • Malcolm Wilson, Clare Findlater, Chris Richards

Britten: Lento ma non troppo. Entry to Lithograph Works (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length1:46
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  • Malcolm Wilson

Britten: Allegro moderato. Stamp Factory - Machine Starts (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length2:48
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  • Malcolm Wilson, Clare Findlater, Chris Richards

Britten: Minuet. Andante lento (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length0:56
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  • Malcolm Wilson

Britten: Allegretto. Train Sequence (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length1:37
$1.00
$1.50
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegretto. Parliament - The Stamp Bill (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length0:53
$1.00
$1.50
  • Malcolm Wilson, Clare Findlater, Chris Richards

Britten: Allegro (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length1:12
$1.00
$1.50
  • Malcolm Wilson, Clare Findlater

Britten: Allegro moderato alla marcia (From "The King's Stamp")

Work length1:17
$1.00
$1.50
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro appassionato. Title Music (From "Negroes")

Work length3:01
$1.00
$1.50
  • Daniel Auchincloss
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro. In the Middle Ages (From "Negroes")

Work length1:04
$1.00
$1.50
  • Daniel Auchincloss, Adam Green
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro. Then the Portuguese and Spaniards (From "Negroes")

Work length1:04
$1.00
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  • Daniel Auchincloss
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro ritmico. At the Mouth of the Senegal (From "Negroes")

Work length1:08
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  • Daniel Auchincloss
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andante con moto. To Sail from Africa to Jamaica (From "Negroes")

Work length0:58
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  • Mary Carewe, Daniel Auchincloss
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andante lento. The More Advanced Thinkers in Europe (From "Negroes")

Work length1:32
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  • Mary Carewe, Daniel Auchincloss
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andante con molto moto. Still at Their Accustomed Hour (From "Negroes")

Work length3:26
$1.00
$1.50
  • Mary Carewe, Adam Green
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro ritmico. Coffee from the Blue Mountains (From "Negroes")

Work length0:50
$1.00
$1.50
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro. Introduction (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length0:33
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andante maestoso. Romans (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length0:39
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andante maestoso. Alfred (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length0:48
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Moderato. There Is, at This point of the Haven (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length1:27
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  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro. The Eighteenth Century (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length1:19
$1.00
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  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro con fuoco. Nelson Has Gone (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length0:56
$1.00
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  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Lento e pesante. 169 Trains a Week (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length0:41
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: The Line Waits (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length2:56
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Più lento. Here Is a Harbour (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length3:00
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Slow. We Seek a Spectacle (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length1:16
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro molto - Alla marcia (From "The Way to the Sea")

Work length1:54
$1.00
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  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Telegrams

Work length2:30
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  • Choir of King Edward's School at Birmingham, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Peace of Britain

Work length1:30
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  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Title Music (From "Men Behind the Meters")

Work length0:22
$1.00
$1.50
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andantino. I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls (From "Men Behind the Meters")

Work length1:33
$1.00
$1.50
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro moderato. 1935 Sequence (From "Men Behind the Meters")

Work length1:16
$1.00
$1.50
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andante (From "Coal Face") [1]

Work length0:39
$1.00
$1.50
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: A Sterile Landscape (From "Coal Face")

Work length1:10
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andante. Coal Mining Is the Basic Industry of Britain (From "Coal Face")

Work length0:42
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Yorkshire and Landscape (From "Coal Face")

Work length1:01
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Moderato. The Temperature Often Reaches (From "Coal Face")

Work length0:28
$1.00
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  • Simon Russell Beale, Malcolm Wilson
  • Martyn Brabbins
  • Recorded: 11-12 March 2006
  • Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Britten: Andante. The Seven and a Half Hour Shift (From "Coal Face")

Work length0:47
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Ad libitum sempre. One Thirty A.M. (From "Coal Face")

Work length0:50
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale, Daniel Auchincloss, Adam Green, Mike Flower
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro ma non troppo. In Many Pits (From "Coal Face")

Work length1:04
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro molto. The Shift Is Finished (From "Coal Face")

Work length2:03
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Making Up Coal Trains (From "Coal Face")

Work length2:26
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Allegro. Coal Mining Is the Basic Industry of Britain (From "Coal Face")

Work length0:14
$1.00
$1.50
  • Simon Russell Beale
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: Andante (From "Coal Face") [2]

Work length0:23
$1.00
$1.50
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Martyn Brabbins

Britten: When you're feeling like expressing your affection (Auden)

Work length0:53
$1.00
$1.50
  • Mary Carewe, Malcolm Wilson

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