Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin

F. Ernest Holman – Battle Hymn of the Allies

Stephen Wilkinson – Dover Beach

Herbert Howells – In Youth Is Pleasure

Peter Warlock – The Full Heart

Alfred Solman – Absence Brings You Nearer to My Heart

William Walton – A Litany 1916

Herbert Howells – Blessed Are the Dead

B.C. Hilliam – Après la guerre

Irving Berlin – The Voice of Belgium

Hubert Parry – Songs of Farewell

1914. The First World War has broken out and will soon drag all of Europe, Russia and the United States into a bloody conflict that is destined to redraw the map of the continent once and for all.

2014. A hundred years later, the Great War will be remembered around the world. The Flemish Radio Choir is marking the occasion with heart-warming music by English composers who experienced the war from near or far, as well as with war songs: some patriotic, others romantic or consoling. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, of which each movement is dedicated to a friend who died in WWI, is the leitmotif throughout this moving programme.