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Welcome to Michele's FWW Video & CD Page

As Amazon UK are now selling videos and CDs as well as books, I decided to put together a web page of FWW videos and CDs from Amazon UK and US. I have not watched or listened the majority of these videos and albumn so I cannot personally recommend many of the items, but I hope that they will prove of interest to people.

Please note that videos sold in the UK are not compatible with US and Canadian video players, and likewise videos sold in the US and Canada are not compatible with British video players.

If you are fed up with friends and family buying you videos and CDs you are not interested in, why not set up a wish-list with Amazon UK ? To find out more, and to set up the list, click here.

Videos

Regeneration (1997) Starring - Jonathan Pryce (as Dr Rivers) and James Wilby (as Siegfried Sassoon). Director - Gillies Mackinnon Classification - 15 This is the film of Pat Barker's book. Buy Regeneration from Amazon UK or as Behind the Lines from Amazon US.
Testament of Youth (1979) Starring - Cheryl Campbell (as Vera Brittain), Rupert Frazer (as Edward Brittain), Joanna McCallum (as Winifred Holtby) and Peter Woodward (as Roland Leighton) Director - Moira Armstrong Classification - PG (2 tapes) This is a re-release of the 1979 television mini-series of Vera Brittain's classic book. Buy Testament of Youth from Amazon UK.
1914-1918 The Crucible Volume 1 1914-1918 Total War Volume 2 Featuring: Judi Dench (Presenter/Narrator) This documentary series was produced by the BBC in 1996. Buy The Crucible and Total War from Amazon UK.
All Quiet On The Western Front (Newly Restored Version) (1930) Starring - Lew Ayres, John Wray. Director - Lewis Milestone Classification - PG This is the film of E M Remarque's classic novel. Buy All Quiet on the Western Front from Amazon UK. Return to top
Voices From The Western Front (1994) Producer - Taylor Downing Director - Andrew Johnston This is a documentary produced in association with the Imperial War Museum and features interviews with veterans of FWW together with images from the battlefields and of the war in the air. Buy Voices from the Western Front from Amazon UK.
Blackadder Goes Forth - The Final Series Starring - Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry. Classification: 15 The final, and moving as well as funny, series of Blackadder with the regulars as soldiers in the trenches or generals at the Base. Be warned - you will probably need tissues for the final episode of the six ! Buy Blackadder Goes Forth from Amazon UK.
Battles Of The Somme And Ancre A documentary on the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Ancre Buy Battles of the Somme and Ancre from Amazon UK. Return to top
Gallipoli (1982) Starring - Mel Gibson, Mark Lee. Director - Peter Weir Classification: PG A film about the fighting at Gallipoli, notorious for the deaths of hundreds of ANZACS. Buy Gallipoli from Amazon UK.
War In The Trenches The Western Front during World War One - a documentary. Buy War In The Trenches from Amazon UK.
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996) NTSC format (US and Canada only) Color, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Box set of 4 tapes. The almost legendary PBS series. Buy The Great War from Amazon US. Return to top
Montparnasse Revisited - Artists at War: 1914-1918 NTSC format (US and Canada only) Black & White, Color A documentary exploring some of the work of the some of the artists of the Great War. Buy Montparnasse Revisited from Amazon US.
Killing Fields: The First World War NTSC format (US and Canada only) Color A documentary, part of the People's Century series. Buy Killing Fields from Amazon US. Return to top

CDs

Memorial Tablet - Sassoon readings and music

Track Listings

1. July 31st 1914 (from The Weald of Youth)

2. The Dug-Out, At Carno, Attack, Died of Wounds, 12 Months After, Prelude: The Troops

3. July 1916 - The Somme (from Memoirs of an Infantry Officer)

4. Memorial Tablet, On Passing The Menin Gate, To One Who Was With Me In The War, Elected Silence

5. 1919 - After The War Mood (from Siegfried's Journey)

6. Commentary on Sassoon by Edmund Blunden, Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson

7. April 1905 - Early Life (from The Weald of Youth)

8. The merciful Knight, Vigils (Pt 9), Two Old Ladies, Vigils (Pt 8), The Heart's Journey (Pt 7), Vigils (Pt 7), Acceptance, The Hardened Heart

9. Elgar - Violin Concerto in B Minor

War Requiem
Composer - Benjamin Britten
Conductor - Martyn Brabbins
Performers - Lynda Russell, Thomas Randle.
Orchestra - Edinburgh Cathedral Choir, Scottish Festival Chorus.
Label - Naxos. Number of Discs - 2
This is a selection of poems by Wilfred Owen together with parts of the Mass, set to music. Naxos are a label specialising in selling the classics at more affordable prices.
Buy War Requiem from Amazon UK.

War Requiem
Composer - Benjamin Britten
Conductor - Benjamin Britten
Performer - Galina Vishnevskaya, Sir Peter Pears.
Orchestra - Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir.
Label - Decca. Number of Discs - 2
This recording of Britten's War Requiem from Decca is conducted by the composer himself.
Buy War Requiem from Amazon UK or Amazon US.
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Music from Behind the Lines - Cecil Coles
Label - Hyperion
Conductor - Martyn Brabbins
Performers - Paul Whelan, Sarah Fox, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Cecil Coles was born in Scotland in 1888 and died of wounds near the Somme on April 26 1918. He had signed up with the 9th London Regiment in 1915 and was sent to France, from where he frequently corresponded with Gustav Holst (amongst others). In 1918 he volunteered to help bring in casualties from a wood and as he returned two of the stretcher bearers were killed and Coles was fatally wounded. He was fortunate in that he was unaware of how serious his wound was - he hummed some Beethoven as he was carried away from the scene, and he asked if the wound was likely to affect his piano playing. The medical officer believed he died of the shock of his wounds. The manuscript of the title track was sent to Holst by Coles in 1917; it was spattered with mud and blood. This album was made possible by the work of his daughter Penny, who never knew her father, and she was too shy to ask her music teacher at St Paul's School for Girls about her father. Her teacher was Holst.
Buy Behind the Lines from Amazon UK.

Regeneration (Soundtrack to the film)
Label - Varese
This album features the incidental music from Gillies McKinnon's film of Regeneration.
Buy Regeneration from Amazon UK.

War's Embers - Songs from World War 1
Composer - William Charles Denis Browne, George Butterworth.
Performer - Martyn Hill, Clifford Benson.
Label - Hyperion Dyad. Number of Discs - 2
This album features poems and songs by Ivor Gurney and others set to music. All the composers featured were killed or suffered during World War 1. Track titles are listed below, samples of some of the tracks are available at Amazon if you follow the links.
Disc 1
1. Only A Man Harrowing Clods from Requiem Da Camera
2. In Flanders
3. Ha'Nacker Mill
4. Black Stitchel
5. By A Bierside
6. Blaweary
7. The Twa Corbies
8. The Fiddler Of Dooney
9. Goodnight To The Meadow
10. Severn Meadows
11. Vagabond Songs, Op 10: The Wanderer's Song Op 10 No 1
12. Vagabond Songs, Op 10: Silent Noon Op 10 No 2
13. Vagabond Songs, Op 10: The Roadside Fire Op 10 No 3
14. Hawk And Buckle
15. The Ship The 'Elias'
16. Orpheus
17. Tears
18. Under The Greenwood Tree
19. Sleep
20. Spring

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Disc 2
1. Arabia
2. The Boat Is Chafing
3. Cathleen Ni Houlihan
4. Edward, Edward
5. The Night Of Trafalgar
6. Even Such Is Time
7. Thou Didst Delight My Eyes
8. Most Holy Night
9. Diaphenia
10. Brittany Op 21 No 1
11. Two Pastorals: Come You, Mary Op 21 No 2
12. Two Pastorals: Who Would Shepherd Pipes Op 21 No 3
13. Shall I Compare Thee ?
14. You Are My Sky
15. Last Hours
16. To Violets
17. Nine Of The Clock
18. Epitaph In Old Mode
19. Epitaph On Salatheil Pavy
20. Requiescat
21. To Gratiana Dancing And Singing

In the Shadow of World War I
Composer - Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy.
Performer - Joel Krosnick, Gilbert Kalish
Label -Arabesque
Samples of some of the following tracks are available at Amazon if you follow the links:
1. Son: Prologue-Lent
2. Son: Ser-Moderement Anime
3. Son: Finale-Anime
4. Fairy Tale: Con Moto
5. Fairy Tale: Con Moto
6. Fairy Tale: Allegro
7. Son, Op.11: Massig Schnelle Viertel. Mit Kraft
8. Son, Op.11: Langsam
9. Son, Op.11: Sehr Lebhaft
10. Son: Allegro Maestoso
11. Son: Moderato Espressivo
12. Son: Larghetto Maestoso
Buy In the Shadow of WW1 from Amazon UK or Amazon US.

The Great War
Performer(s) - Various
Label - Pavilion
This album features some well known songs of the Great War, together with some less well known songs. Track details are listed.
1. United Forces March - The Metropolitan Military Band
2. Your King And Country Want You - Edna Thornton
3. It's A Long Way To Tipperary - John McCormack
4. Pack Up Your Troubles - Murray Johnson
5. Good Bye-ee - Courtland/Jeffries
6. Oh, It's A Lovely War ! / Mademoiselle From Armentieres - The Jolly Old Fellows
7. Roses Of Picardy - John McCormack
8. With Our Boys At The Front - Sergeant E. Dwyer, V.C.
9. In The Trenches - Major A.E. Rees
10. Smoke Clouds - Herbert Payne
11. If You Want To Find The Sergeant Major... - The Roosters Concert Party
12. In Summertime On Bredon - Gervase Elwes
13. Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty/Another Little Drink - The Jolly Old Fellows
14. Keep The Home Fires Burning - John McCormack
15. Have You News Of My Boy, Jack ? - Louise Kirkby-Lunn
16. Over There - Enrico Caruso
17. Never Mind The Food Controller - Florrie Forde
18. A Bachelor Gay ('The Maid Of The Mountains') - Peter Dawson
19. You Can't Beat Us - Arthur Fields
20. Gas Shells Bombardment - British Troops Advancing On Lille
21. We All Went Marching Home - The Black Diamonds Band
22. How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm ? - Harry Fay
23. The Grand Peace Record - Military Band
24. Land Of Hope And Glory - Clara Butt

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The Great War

The Great War and The Shaping of the 20th Century
Performer(s) - Mason Daring
Label - Daring
This album features the incidental music from the PBS series.
1. The Great War
2. Seasons Of Verdun
3. In Hospital
4. Stalemate
5. The Death Of Jaures
6. Mud And Rain
7. Slaughter
8. Before The Somme
9. Cannon's Fire
10. Mad Jack
11. Suffragettes
12. Battle Of The Somme
13. General Haig
14. Democracy March
15. Explosion
16. The Younger Kaiser
17. Birth And Childhood
18. The Reluctant Tsar
19. Royalty
20. Wilfred Owen
21. Tsar Nicholas
22. After The Somme
23. Officer's Nightmare
24. Verdun
25. Russia: I. October Revolution / II. Bolshevik Discontent / III. Kerenski / IV. On The Eve Of The . . .
26. Paris And Mutiny
27. Living With The Dead
28. Poison Gas
29. The Great War Begins
Buy The Great War albumn from Amazon UK.

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PBS album

The Great War: Classical And Popular Selections From The Time Of World War I (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium)
Composer - Sir Edward Elgar, Richard Strauss.
Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy.
Performer - Lili Chookasian, Robert Casadesus.
Ensemble - New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra.
Label -Sony Classics
This albumn features a distinguished line up of composers, conductors and orchestras playing music that would have been heard on radios throughout the country during World War 1. A fascinating concept.
1. Military March No.1 in D, Op. 39: Pomp And Circumstance
2. Der Rosenkavalier Ste: Waltz
3. Das Lied Von Der Erde: Von Der Schonheit
4. La Mer: De L'Aube A Midi Sur La Mer
5. Symphony No.1 in D, Op. 25 'Classical Symphony': III. Gavotta. Non Troppo Allegro
6. L'Histoire Du Soldat Ste: IV. The Royal March
7. L'Histoire Du Soldat Ste: V. The Little Concert
8. Le Tombeau De Couperin: V. Menuet
9. Le Tombeau De Couperin: VI. Toccata
10. Pulcinella Ste: Sinf
11. Funf Klavierstucke, Op. 23: Walzer 12. Wozzeck, Act III: Interlude
13. Music For The Theatre: Prologue
14. Shine On Harvest Moon
15. Alexander's Ragtime Band
16. Over There
17. How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm (After They've Seen Paree) ?
18. Strike Up The Band: The Man I Love
19. West End Blues
Buy The Great War Classical and Popular Selections from Amazon US.

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War Requiem Composer - Benjamin Britten Conductor - Martyn Brabbins Performers - Lynda Russell, Thomas Randle. Orchestra - Edinburgh Cathedral Choir, Scottish Festival Chorus. Label - Naxos. Number of Discs - 2 This is a selection of poems by Wilfred Owen together with parts of the Mass, set to music. Naxos are a label specialising in selling the classics at more affordable prices. Buy War Requiem from Amazon UK.
War Requiem Composer - Benjamin Britten Conductor - Benjamin Britten Performer - Galina Vishnevskaya, Sir Peter Pears. Orchestra - Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir. Label - Decca. Number of Discs - 2 This recording of Britten's War Requiem from Decca is conducted by the composer himself. Buy War Requiem from Amazon UK or Amazon US. Return to top
Music from Behind the Lines - Cecil Coles Label - Hyperion Conductor - Martyn Brabbins Performers - Paul Whelan, Sarah Fox, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Cecil Coles was born in Scotland in 1888 and died of wounds near the Somme on April 26 1918. He had signed up with the 9th London Regiment in 1915 and was sent to France, from where he frequently corresponded with Gustav Holst (amongst others). In 1918 he volunteered to help bring in casualties from a wood and as he returned two of the stretcher bearers were killed and Coles was fatally wounded. He was fortunate in that he was unaware of how serious his wound was - he hummed some Beethoven as he was carried away from the scene, and he asked if the wound was likely to affect his piano playing. The medical officer believed he died of the shock of his wounds. The manuscript of the title track was sent to Holst by Coles in 1917; it was spattered with mud and blood. This album was made possible by the work of his daughter Penny, who never knew her father, and she was too shy to ask her music teacher at St Paul's School for Girls about her father. Her teacher was Holst. Buy Behind the Lines from Amazon UK.
Regeneration (Soundtrack to the film) Label - Varese This album features the incidental music from Gillies McKinnon's film of Regeneration. Buy Regeneration from Amazon UK.
War's Embers - Songs from World War 1 Composer - William Charles Denis Browne, George Butterworth. Performer - Martyn Hill, Clifford Benson. Label - Hyperion Dyad. Number of Discs - 2 This album features poems and songs by Ivor Gurney and others set to music. All the composers featured were killed or suffered during World War 1. Track titles are listed below, samples of some of the tracks are available at Amazon if you follow the links. Disc 1 1. Only A Man Harrowing Clods from Requiem Da Camera 2. In Flanders 3. Ha'Nacker Mill 4. Black Stitchel 5. By A Bierside 6. Blaweary 7. The Twa Corbies 8. The Fiddler Of Dooney 9. Goodnight To The Meadow 10. Severn Meadows 11. Vagabond Songs, Op 10: The Wanderer's Song Op 10 No 1 12. Vagabond Songs, Op 10: Silent Noon Op 10 No 2 13. Vagabond Songs, Op 10: The Roadside Fire Op 10 No 3 14. Hawk And Buckle 15. The Ship The 'Elias' 16. Orpheus 17. Tears 18. Under The Greenwood Tree 19. Sleep 20. Spring Buy War's Embers from Amazon UK or Amazon US. Return to top	Disc 2 1. Arabia 2. The Boat Is Chafing 3. Cathleen Ni Houlihan 4. Edward, Edward 5. The Night Of Trafalgar 6. Even Such Is Time 7. Thou Didst Delight My Eyes 8. Most Holy Night 9. Diaphenia 10. Brittany Op 21 No 1 11. Two Pastorals: Come You, Mary Op 21 No 2 12. Two Pastorals: Who Would Shepherd Pipes Op 21 No 3 13. Shall I Compare Thee ? 14. You Are My Sky 15. Last Hours 16. To Violets 17. Nine Of The Clock 18. Epitaph In Old Mode 19. Epitaph On Salatheil Pavy 20. Requiescat 21. To Gratiana Dancing And Singing
In the Shadow of World War I Composer - Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy. Performer - Joel Krosnick, Gilbert Kalish Label -Arabesque Samples of some of the following tracks are available at Amazon if you follow the links: 1. Son: Prologue-Lent 2. Son: Ser-Moderement Anime 3. Son: Finale-Anime 4. Fairy Tale: Con Moto 5. Fairy Tale: Con Moto 6. Fairy Tale: Allegro 7. Son, Op.11: Massig Schnelle Viertel. Mit Kraft 8. Son, Op.11: Langsam 9. Son, Op.11: Sehr Lebhaft 10. Son: Allegro Maestoso 11. Son: Moderato Espressivo 12. Son: Larghetto Maestoso Buy In the Shadow of WW1 from Amazon UK or Amazon US.
The Great War Performer(s) - Various Label - Pavilion This album features some well known songs of the Great War, together with some less well known songs. Track details are listed. 1. United Forces March - The Metropolitan Military Band 2. Your King And Country Want You - Edna Thornton 3. It's A Long Way To Tipperary - John McCormack 4. Pack Up Your Troubles - Murray Johnson 5. Good Bye-ee - Courtland/Jeffries 6. Oh, It's A Lovely War ! / Mademoiselle From Armentieres - The Jolly Old Fellows 7. Roses Of Picardy - John McCormack 8. With Our Boys At The Front - Sergeant E. Dwyer, V.C. 9. In The Trenches - Major A.E. Rees 10. Smoke Clouds - Herbert Payne 11. If You Want To Find The Sergeant Major... - The Roosters Concert Party 12. In Summertime On Bredon - Gervase Elwes 13. Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty/Another Little Drink - The Jolly Old Fellows 14. Keep The Home Fires Burning - John McCormack 15. Have You News Of My Boy, Jack ? - Louise Kirkby-Lunn 16. Over There - Enrico Caruso 17. Never Mind The Food Controller - Florrie Forde 18. A Bachelor Gay ('The Maid Of The Mountains') - Peter Dawson 19. You Can't Beat Us - Arthur Fields 20. Gas Shells Bombardment - British Troops Advancing On Lille 21. We All Went Marching Home - The Black Diamonds Band 22. How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm ? - Harry Fay 23. The Grand Peace Record - Military Band 24. Land Of Hope And Glory - Clara Butt Return to top
The Great War and The Shaping of the 20th Century Performer(s) - Mason Daring Label - Daring This album features the incidental music from the PBS series. 1. The Great War 2. Seasons Of Verdun 3. In Hospital 4. Stalemate 5. The Death Of Jaures 6. Mud And Rain 7. Slaughter 8. Before The Somme 9. Cannon's Fire 10. Mad Jack 11. Suffragettes 12. Battle Of The Somme 13. General Haig 14. Democracy March 15. Explosion 16. The Younger Kaiser 17. Birth And Childhood 18. The Reluctant Tsar 19. Royalty 20. Wilfred Owen 21. Tsar Nicholas 22. After The Somme 23. Officer's Nightmare 24. Verdun 25. Russia: I. October Revolution / II. Bolshevik Discontent / III. Kerenski / IV. On The Eve Of The . . . 26. Paris And Mutiny 27. Living With The Dead 28. Poison Gas 29. The Great War Begins Buy The Great War albumn from Amazon UK. Return to top
The Great War: Classical And Popular Selections From The Time Of World War I (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium) Composer - Sir Edward Elgar, Richard Strauss. Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy. Performer - Lili Chookasian, Robert Casadesus. Ensemble - New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra. Label -Sony Classics This albumn features a distinguished line up of composers, conductors and orchestras playing music that would have been heard on radios throughout the country during World War 1. A fascinating concept. 1. Military March No.1 in D, Op. 39: Pomp And Circumstance 2. Der Rosenkavalier Ste: Waltz 3. Das Lied Von Der Erde: Von Der Schonheit 4. La Mer: De L'Aube A Midi Sur La Mer 5. Symphony No.1 in D, Op. 25 'Classical Symphony': III. Gavotta. Non Troppo Allegro 6. L'Histoire Du Soldat Ste: IV. The Royal March 7. L'Histoire Du Soldat Ste: V. The Little Concert 8. Le Tombeau De Couperin: V. Menuet 9. Le Tombeau De Couperin: VI. Toccata 10. Pulcinella Ste: Sinf 11. Funf Klavierstucke, Op. 23: Walzer 12. Wozzeck, Act III: Interlude 13. Music For The Theatre: Prologue 14. Shine On Harvest Moon 15. Alexander's Ragtime Band 16. Over There 17. How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm (After They've Seen Paree) ? 18. Strike Up The Band: The Man I Love 19. West End Blues Buy The Great War Classical and Popular Selections from Amazon US.