The lost songbirds of the Somme - Concert

The Flowers of War

Andrew Goodwin tenor
Zbigniew Kornowicz and Joanna Rezler violins, ORCHESTE DE PICARDIE
Paul Mayes viola, CHAMBRE A PART
Catherine Delanoue cello,
David Novak accordion,
Jordan Aikin bagpipes,
Christopher Latham violin and director

SACRIFICE – The Lost Songbirds of the Somme  

• GF Handel Dead March from Saul in A major arr for voice, string quartet and acc 5 mins
The archetypal work performed at Commonwealth funerals in WW1. It was played at the first Anzac Day commemorations in Egypt on April 25 1916.

•  5:12 Jacques Ibert Noel en Picardie for string quartet and accordion 9 mins
Written during his service as an anaesthetist working at the hospital in Amiens in 1915.

• 12:32 George Wilkinson Suzette (1915) for tenor, strings and accordion 2 mins
             
Willie Braithwaite Manson 2 Songs for tenor, strings and accordion 5 mins
• 14:29 When I came last to Ludlow
• 16:07 Loveliest of Trees

• 19:30 Francis Purcell Warren Adagio for cello, strings and accordion 5 mins

• 24:19 Ivor Gurney In Flanders for tenor, strings and accordion 3 mins
• 27:32 Ivor Gurney Severn Meadows for tenor, strings and accordion 2 mins
• 29:35  Ivor Gurney By A Bierside for tenor, strings and accordion 4.5 mins

• 33:55 Frederick Septimus Kelly Elegy for arr for string quartet and accordion 8 mins
• 43:40 Trad: The Reel of Tulloch 2 mins

Georges Butterworth
• 47:03 The Lads in their hundreds (from A Shropshire Lad) for tenor, strings and accordion 2 mins
• 49:16 Requiescat for tenor, strings and harmonium 3 mins

• 52:50 Reynaldo Hahn: À Chloris for tenor, strings and accordion 3 mins

• 57:15 F S Kelly Lento et Lamentoso for strings and accordion 4 mins

• 1:02:18 Walter Braunfels Vorspiel from Die Vögel, for strings and accordion 4 mins

• 1:06:34 Botho Sigwart Adagio from the War Sonata arr for string quartet and accordion 4 mins

• 1:10:38 PM William Laurie The Battle of the Somme for bagpipes 3 mins

•  1:14:28 Recitation of the Ode

• 1:16:30The Last Post for tenor (words traditional) 3 mins