Centenary: Words and Music of the Great War

Two of our most popular and distinguished actors, Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton, have teamed up with the celebrated West Country acoustic band Show of Hands (Steve Knightley, Phil Beer and Miranda Sykes) to mark the centenary of the First World War. The conflict lasted for four years, led to the deaths of over sixteen million soldiers and civilians, and transformed Britain and much of the world. But the brutal carnage and the horrors of life in the trenches inspired the War Poetry, an extraordinary artistic movement written by those who fought, and in some cases died, in the fighting. Unique and powerful, Centenary Words & Music Of The Great War matches the remarkable poetry of those war years against the music of the era, along with new compositions inspired by the war. This double CD release includes one disc of twenty two poems read by Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton in new musical settings and a second disc on which Show of Hands perform distinctive versions of period favourites plus new songs from Knightley, including The Gamekeeper, and his setting for Housman’s The Lads In Their Hundreds. Show of Hands are joined by distinguished friends from the folk scene including Jackie Oates, Jim Causley, Philip Henry and Geoffrey Lakeman.

Disc 1
1: Anthem for Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
2: Lamplight (May Wedderburn Cannan) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
3: Concert Party (Edmund Blunden) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
4: A Girl's Song (Katharine Tynan) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
5: I Have a Rendezvous With Death (Alan Seeger) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
6: The Lads in Their Hundreds (A.E. Housman) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
7: To Victory (Siegfried Sassoon) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
8: Who's for the Game? (Jessie Pope) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
9: The Silent One (Ivor Gurney) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
10: Requiem for the Dead of Europe (Ivan Goll) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
11: The General (Siegfried Sassoon) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
12: Break of Day in the Trenches (Isaac Rosenburg) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
13: The Call (Jessie Pope) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
14: Dulce Et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
15: Trench Poets (Edgell Rickword) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
16: To an Athlete Dying Young (A.E. Housman) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
17: August 1914 (Isaac Rosenburg) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
18: The Soldier Addresses His Body (Edgell Rickword) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
19: An Irish Airman Forsees His Death (W.B. Yeats) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
20: Slumber Song (Siegfried Sassoon) - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
21: The Soldier (Rupert Brooke) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter
22: For the Fallen (Laurence Binyon) - Show of Hands/Jim Carter

Disc 2
1: The Gamekeeper - Show of Hands
2: Goodbye/If You Were the Only Girl in the World/The Lovely Nymph - Show of Hands
3: The Lads in Their Hundreds - Show of Hands/Imelda Staunton
4: The Padre - Show of Hands
5: Coming Home - Show of Hands
6: It's a Long Way to Tipperary - Show of Hands
7: The Sunshine of Your Smile - Show of Hands
8: Silent Night - Show of Hands
9: Love Will Make the World Go Round - Show of Hands
10: Goodbye 'Til the Next Time - Show of Hands
11: The Blue Cockade - Show of Hands/Urban Soul Orchestra
12: Requiem - Show of Hands/Jim Carter/Imelda Staunton

Number of Discs: 2

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