40 Most Beautiful British Classics

Album by Sir Henry Wood.

Release date: 2011-07-19

Tracks (40)

  1. Arne: Rule Britannia!
  2. Coates: Dambusters March
  3. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
  4. Parry: Jerusalem (Arr. Elgar)
  5. Elgar: 5 Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Op. 39: No. 1 in D Major
  6. Binge: Sailing By (Radio 4, Shipping Forecast theme)
  7. Holst: The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
  8. Wood, Henry : Fantasia on British Sea Songs : Sailor's Hornpipe [Excerpt]
  9. Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon (Instrumental Version)
  10. Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma": Variation IX. Nimrod
  11. Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV 258 "Zadok the Priest"
  12. Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12
  13. Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer, WoO 15, MWV B49 (Excerpt)
  14. Trad / Arr Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves
  15. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: I. Overture
  16. Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: V. Air
  17. Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe
  18. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea (Chorus Version)
  19. Trad / Arr Higginbottom: Early One Morning
  20. Trad / Arr Cameron : Blow the Wind Southerly
  21. Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, an Aristophanic Suite: Overture
  22. Wood, Arthur : My Native Heath : IV Barwick Green [The Archers theme]
  23. Holst: The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
  24. Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1, Scene 3: Chorus. "For Unto Us a Child Is Born"
  25. Trad / Arr Spiegl : Radio 4 UK Theme
  26. Walton : Incidental Music to Henry V : 'Touch her soft lips and part'
  27. Walton : Incidental Music to Henry V : Passacaglia, 'The Death of Falstaff'
  28. Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act 3: Sinfonia. "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
  29. Trad / Arr Vaughan Williams : Loch Lomond
  30. Purcell / Arr. Stokowski: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Song. When I Am Laid in Earth
  31. Trad : Sumer is icumin in
  32. Elgar: 2 Chansons, Op. 15: No. 1, Chanson de nuit (Orchestral Version)
  33. Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
  34. Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 "In London Town"
  35. Delius: In a Summer Garden
  36. Macleod / Arr Statham : The Skye Boat Song
  37. Holst: The Planets, Op. 32: III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger
  38. Elgar: 2 Chansons, Op. 15: No. 2, Chanson de matin (Orchestral Version)
  39. Byrd : Ave verum corpus
  40. Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2, Scene 7: Chorus. "Hallelujah"

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