Classics Go To War (includes 'Battle Hymn of the Republic', 'Cavatina', 'Dambusters', 'Ride of the Valkyies' etc.)

Classics Go To War (includes 'Battle Hymn of the Republic', 'Cavatina', 'Dambusters', 'Ride of the Valkyies' etc.) cover $28.00 Special Order
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classics Go To War (includes 'Battle Hymn of the Republic', 'Cavatina', 'Dambusters', 'Ride of the Valkyies' etc.)
Various artists from the vast Naxos catalogue

[ Naxos / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 20 February 2010

This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.

Although the topic of war may not be a fashionable dinner party topic these days, its horrors, history and heroes have fascinated us for centuries. This collection includes music about war, music for television and exciting and memorable music from some of the greatest war movies of all time.

Tracks:

Wagner, Richard
Die Walkure, Act III: Ride of the Valkries (Apocalypse Now)

Barber, Samuel
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (Platoon)

Coates, Eric
The Dambusters: March

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Wellingtons Sieg oder Die Schlacht bei Vittoria, Op. 91, "Battle Symphony", "Wellington's Victory" (excerpts)

Liszt, Franz
Hunnenschlacht, S105/R422

Farnon, Robert
Colditz: March

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Mazeppa, Act III: The Battle at Poltava

Beethoven, Ludwig van
2 Marches for Military Band

Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhaylovich
Caucasian Sketches: Suite No. 2, Op. 42, "Iveria": IV. Georgian March

Newman, Alfred
Captain from Castile: Conquest, "Triumphal March"

Elgar, Edward
Caractacus, Op. 35: Triumphal March

Myers, Stanley
Cavatina (The Deer Hunter)

Faure, Gabriel
Requiem, Op. 48: In paradisum (The Thin Red Line)

Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich
Stenka Razin, Op. 13

and much more