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

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 We don t want to lose you, Helen Clarke 2 The Volunteer, Robert Service 3 The Spirit, Woodbine Willy 4 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 Oh! It s a lovely war, Courtland & Jeffries 10 The rear guard, Siegfried Sassoon 11 One night at Cuinchy , Robert Graves 12 A Mademoiselle from Armentiers, Jack Charman 13 OBE, AA Milne Pomp & Circumstance March No1 Edward Elgar (extract) 14 Rouen May Cannan 15 Keep the home fires burning, John McCormack 16 Futility, Wilfred Owen 17 From France, Isaac Rosenberg Serenade for Strings, Edward Elgar 18 As the team s head brass, Edward Thomas 19 Easter Monday, Eleanor Farjeon 20 Roses are shining in Picardy Ernest Pike 21 For Some May Cannan 22 Flanders Fields John Macrae 23 There s a long, long trail a-winding John McCormack 24 The Soldier Rupert Brooke 25 The Fallen Laurence Binyon Nimrod Edward Elgar 26 Every One Sang, Siegfried Sassoon 27 From a full heart, AA Milne 28 The Armistice May Cannan Adagio from Clarinet Concerto Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 29 Recessional Rudyard Kipling 30 High Wood Philip Johnstone