Elgar: The Spirit of England (2006) more music like this

performed by Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Iain Farrington (organ), Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
composed by Edward Elgar, Frederick Kelly, Hubert Parry, Ivor Gurney, Lilian Elkington

Epoch has gathered five pieces by British composers written in response to the Great War. There is no chest-thumping nationalism evident here, but deeply sad portraits of the devastation of war. The centerpiece is Elgar's three-movement cantata, The Spirit of England, for soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra, based on freshly written poetry by ...

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War's Embers (2006) more music like this

performed by Clifford Benson (piano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Michael George (bass), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
composed by Ernest Bristow Farrar, Frederick Kelly, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, Ivor Gurney, W. Denis Browne

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