Treasury of Great British Music

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Track list

CD 1: The Spirit of Britian

=> 1 Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (7:32)
=> 2 Pomp and Circumstance March no. 2 in A minor, op. 39 no. 2 (4:44)
=> 3 Highlights From 'Henry V' Suite (Charge and Battle, Touch Her Soft Lips and Part, Agincourt Song) (10:03)
=> 4 March of the Bowmen From 'Robin Hood' Suite (4:44)
=> 5 The Dam Busters March (4:21)
=> 6 Toccata Marziale (5:13)
=> 7 London Suite (Covent Garden, Westminster, Knightsbridge) (14:25)
=> 8 Overture to 'Yeomen of the Guard' (5:10)
=> 9 Cockaigne Overture (16:27)

CD 2: Green and Pleasant Land

=> 1 A Shropshire Lad (10:25)
=> 2 The Lark Ascending (14:47)
=> 3 Fantasia on Greensleeves (4:35)
=> 4 On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (6:38)
=> 5 Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (15:03)
=> 6 Nimrod From 'Enigma Variations' (4:21)
=> 7 Over the Hills and Far Away (13:17)

CD 3: The Heart of Our Country

=> 1 Capriol Suite (Basse-Danse, Pavane, Tordion, Bransles, Pieds-En-L'Air, Mattachins (Sword dance)) (9:52)
=> 2 Highlights From 'an English Suite' (Prelude, Pastoral and Frolic) (9:40)
=> 3 English Idylls no. 1 (4:46)
=> 4 English Idylls no. 2 (4:22)
=> 5 Molly on the Shore (3:53)
=> 6 English Folk Song Suite (Seventeen Come Sunday (March), My Bonny Boy (Intermezzo), Folk Songs From Somerset (March)) (10:00)
=> 7 Suite no. 2 in F, op. 28b (11:29)
=> 8 Shepherd's Hey (2:14)
=> 9 Four Scottish Dances, op. 59 (Pesante, Vivace, Allegretto, Con Brio) (9:35)

CD 4: By River, Lake and Sea

=> 1 Four Sea Interlude From 'Peter Grimes' (Dawn, Sunday Morning, Moonlight, Storm) op. 33a (16:48)
=> 2 Storm and Love Scene From 'Troilus and Cressida' (6:24)
=> 3 The Watermill (3:55)
=> 4 By the River From 'Florida Suite' (6:52)
=> 5 Summer Night on the River (7:45)
=> 6 Tintagel (15:02)
=> 7 Highlights From 'the Water Music' (Allegro, Andante con moto, Allegro and Hornpipe) (11:02)

CD 5: Pride and Patriotism

=> 1 Music for the Royal Fireworks, no.4 (La Rejouissance) (2:05)
=> 2 Trumpet Tune and Air (4:31)
=> 3 Orb and Sceptre (7:47)
=> 4 Haleyon Days From 'The Three Elizabeths' Suite (8:05)
=> 5 Crown Imperial (10:07)
=> 6 Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity From 'The Planets', op. 32 (7:03)
=> 7 Imperial March, op. 32 (5:05)
=> 8 Pomp and Circumstance March in G, op. 39 no. 4 (4:58)
=> 9 Pomp and Circumstance March in D, op. 39 no. 1 (Land of Hope and Glory) (6:24)
=> 10 Jerusalem (3:06)
=> 11 Rule Britannia (3:36)

Labels

=> Reader’s Digest

RDCD 1941-5

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