Title from disc label. Stephan Loges, bass-baritone, Maggini Quartet, and members of the New London Orchestra. Recorded 2015 November 30 and December 1 at St. Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London, UK. Booklet with texts in German and English, and program notes in English (20 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
Fields of the fallen. Introduction - Into battle (Julian Grenfell) ; Interlude ; Rain (Edward Thomas) ; Krieggrab (August Stramm) ; Interlude ; Peace (Rupert Brooke) ; Der Aufbruch (Ernst Stadler) ; Interlude ; Die Schlacht bei Saarburg (Alfred Lichtenstein) ; August 1914 (Isaac Rosenberg) ; Interlude ; Anthem for doomed youth (Wilfred Owen) ; Im Osten (Georg Trakl) ; Into battle, first reprise (Julian Grenfell) ; Interlude ; When you see millions of the mouthless dead (Charles Sorley) ; An den Tod (Gerrit Engelke) ; Into battle, second reprise (Julian Grenfell) -- Dawn on the Somme. The Somme - a lament ; On Somme (Ivor Gurney) ; Before action (William Noel Hodgson) ; I have a rendezvous with death (Alan Seeger) ; Dawn on the Somme (Robert Nichols) ; The Somme - envoi.
Summary:
Songs and music about World War I and the Battle of the Somme. The poets represented in the first work, both British and German, died during the 1914-1918 conflict. The texts for the second work reflect the poet's experience or reflections on that battle.
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