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British Composers: A Celebration

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Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	Sun Dance	Edward Elgar	2:38
1.2	Marigold	Billy Mayerl	2:55
1.3	Saint Nicolas	Benjamin Britten	2:41
1.4	String Quartet No.3	Herbert Howells	2:02
1.5	Symphony No.1 in A flat	Edward Elgar	1:36
1.6	Troilus and Cressida	William Walton	2:39
1.7	Dance Scenes	Nicholas Maw	2:31
1.8	Ave Maria	Edward Elgar	2:40
1.9	The Triumph of Neptune	Gerald Tyrwhitt‐Wilson, Lord Berners	1:35
1.10	Dies Natalis	Gerald Finzi	2:32
1.11	Symphony No.5 in D	Ralph Vaughan Williams	1:54
1.12	Blest Pair of Sirens	Hubert Parry	2:31
1.13	Checkmate	Sir Arthur Bliss	2:36
1.14	Peter Grimes	Benjamin Britten	2:48
1.15	Violin Concerto	Frederick Delius	1:37
1.16	The Planets	Gustav Holst	2:13
1.17	Loch Lomond	[traditional]	3:42
1.18	Canadian Carnival	Benjamin Britten	2:39
1.19	At the Boar’s Head	Gustav Holst	2:12
1.20	Sellinger’s Round	Sir Michael Tippett	1:49
1.21	Greater love hath no man	John Ireland	1:44
1.22	English Dance No.5	Malcolm Arnold	3:00
1.23	On Wenlock Edge	Ralph Vaughan Williams	2:08
1.24	Sinfonietta	Ernest John Moeran	0:54
1.25	Mater ora filium	Sir Arnold Bax	2:21
1.26	Violin Sonata	William Walton	0:30
1.27	Cello Concerto in D: Andante espressivo (Opening)	Arthur Sullivan	3:00
1.28	Three Screaming Popes	Mark‐Anthony Turnage	1:39
1.29	Concerto for Two Pianos	Malcolm Arnold	1:21
1.30	The Young Person’s Guide	Benjamin Britten	2:47
1.31	String Quartet in E minor	Edward Elgar	1:40
1.32	The Lady’s Birthday	Peter Warlock	2:46
1.33	Crown Imperial	William Walton	2:47
2.1	Symphony in G minor	Ernest John Moeran	2:25
2.2	Six Songs From ‘A Shropshire Lad’	George Butterworth	2:09
2.3	Harpsichord Concertino	Walter Leigh	2:03
2.4	Ave verum corpus	Edward Elgar	2:32
2.5	Pineapple Poll: Belaye’s Solo & Sailors’ Drill	Arthur Sullivan	3:27
2.6	Down by the Salley Gardens	Ivor Gurney	2:31
2.7	Cornish Dance No.4	Malcolm Arnold	2:29
2.8	Hums and Songs of Winnie‐the‐Pooh	Oliver Knussen	1:20
2.9	The March of the Women	Dame Ethel Smyth	1:40
2.10	Job: A Masque for Dancing	Ralph Vaughan Williams	2:11
2.11	Coelos ascendit hodie	Sir Charles Villiers Stanford	2:02
2.12	Falstaff	Edward Elgar	2:10
2.13	Henry V: Scenes from the film	William Walton	2:49
2.14	Five Poems by W. H. Auden	Sir Lennox Berkeley	1:26
2.15	Paul Bunyan	Benjamin Britten	1:30
2.16	On Wenlock Edge	Ralph Vaughan Williams	0:43
2.17	Portrait of a Flirt	Robert Farnon	2:42
2.18	Kai	Mark‐Anthony Turnage	1:59
2.19	O that I had ne’er been married	Benjamin Britten	1:24
2.20	The Perfect Fool	Gustav Holst	3:15
2.21	Lo, the full, final sacrifice	Gerald Finzi	4:36
2.22	Dream Children No.1	Edward Elgar	2:42
2.23	Hodie	Ralph Vaughan Williams	2:17
2.24	Diversions for piano (left hand) & orchestra	Benjamin Britten	2:26
2.25	The Curlew	Peter Warlock	1:40
2.26	‘Spitfire’ Prelude & Fugue	William Walton	2:20
2.27	It was a lover and his lass	Roger Quilter	2:33
2.28	‘Enigma’ Variations	Edward Elgar	2:25
2.29	I was glad	Hubert Parry	2:09
2.30	The Walk to the Paradise Garden	Frederick Delius	10:14

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