Some Corner of a Foreign Field: Poetry and Music of the Great War CD

The horrors of the Great War of 1914-1918 produced some of the finest British poetry of the century. These poignant texts have been combined with music of equal power and emotion in a moving album, which mixes humour, irony, and terror in equal measure.

1 Song: We don t want to lose you, Helen Clarke

2 The Volunteer, Robert Service

3 The Spirit, Woodbine Willy

4 Song: If you were the only girl in the world, Violet Lorraine & George Robey

5 If you were the only Bosch in the trench

6 Breakfast, Wilfrid Gibson

7 The Last Laugh, Wilfred Owen

8 Assault God this is fun, Erno Mueller

9 Song: Oh! It s a lovely war, Courtland & Jeffries

10 The rear guard, Siegfried Sassoon

11 One night at Cuinchy , Robert Graves

12 Song: A Mademoiselle from Armentiers, Jack Charman 13 OBE, AA Milne

Music: Pomp & Circumstance March No1 Edward Elgar (extract)

14 Rouen May Cannan

15 Song: Keep the home fires burning, John McCormack

16 Futility, Wilfred Owen

17 From France, Isaac Rosenberg

Music: Serenade for Strings, Edward Elgar

18 As the team s head brass, Edward Thomas

19 Easter Monday, Eleanor Farjeon

20 Song: Roses are shining in Picardy Ernest Pike

21 For Some May Cannan

22 Flanders Fields John Macrae

23 Song: There s a long, long trail a-winding John McCormack

24 The Soldier Rupert Brooke

25 The Fallen Laurence Binyon

Music: Nimrod Edward Elgar

26 Every One Sang, Siegfried Sassoon

27 From a full heart, AA Milne

28 The Armistice May Cannan

Music: Adagio from Clarinet Concerto Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

29 Recessional Rudyard Kipling

30 High Wood Philip Johnstone