BRITTEN ON FILM

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Night Mail

5:50

1

Title Music

0:47

2

Percussion Sequence

0:55

3

End Sequence

4:08

with Simon Russell Beale narrator

The Tocher (Rossini Suite)

9:32

4

I

Allegro brillante

1:53

5

II

Allegretto

2:20

6

III

Allegretto

2:01

7

IV

Bolero: Allegro moderato

2:00

8

V

Allegro con brio

1:18

The King's Stamp

14:07

9

Part One: Allegro molto alla marcia

0:38

10

Allegro: 'Opening door...'

2:20

11

Allegretto: 'Messenger boy'

0:40

12

Lento ma non troppo: 'Entry to lithograph works'

1:46

13

Allegro moderato: 'Stamp factory - Machine starts'

2:48

14

Part Two: Minuet: Andante lento

0:56

15

Allegretto: 'Train sequence'

1:37

16

Allegretto: 'Parliament - The Stamp Bill'

0:53

17

Allegro

1:12

18

Allegro moderato alla marcia

1:17

Negroes

13:03

19

Allegro appassionato: Title Music

3:01

20

I

Allegro: 'In the middle ages'

1:04

21

II

Allegro: 'Then the Portuguese and Spaniards'

1:04

22

III

Allegro ritmico: 'At the mouth of the Senegal'

1:08

23

IV

Andante con moto: 'To sail from Africa to Jamaica'

0:58

24

V

Andante lento: 'The more advanced thinkers in Europe'

1:32

25

VI

Andante con molto moto: 'Still at their accustomed hour'

3:26

26

VII

Allegro ritmico: Coffee from the Blue Mountains'

0:50

Mary Carewe

Daniel Auchincloss tenor

Adam Green baritone

The Way To The Sea

15:29

27

Allegro: Introduction

0:33

28

Andante maestoso: Romans

0:39

29

Andante maestoso: Alfred

0:48

30

Moderato: 'There is, at this point of the haven'

1:27

31

Allegro: 'The eighteenth century'

1:19

32

Allegro con fuoco: 'Nelson has gone'

0:56

33

Lento e pesante: '169 trains a week'

0:41

34

'The line waits'

2:56

35

Piu lento: 'Here is a harbour'

3:00

36

Slow: 'We seek a spectacle'

1:16

37

Allegro molto - alla marcia

1:54

with Simon Russell Beale narrator

38

Telegrams

2:30

39

Peace of Britain

1:30

Men Behind The Meters

3:11

40

Title Music

0:22

41

Andantino: 'I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls'

1:16

42

Allegro moderato: 1935 Sequence

1:33

Coal Face

11:47

43

I

Andante: 'A sterile landscape'

0:39

44

II

'Coal mining is the baisc industry of Britain'

1:10

45

III

Andante: 'The chief coal-producing centres'

0:42

46

IV

'Yorkshire and Lancashire'

1:01

47

V

Moderato: 'The temp'rature often reaches'

0:28

48

VI

Andante: 'The seven and a half hour shift'

0:47

49

VII

Ad libitum sempre: 'One thirty a.m.'

0:50

50

VIII

Allegro ma non troppo: 'In many pits'

1:04

51

IX

Allegro molto: 'The shift is finished'

2:03

52

X

'Making up coal trains'

2:26

53

XI

Allegro: 'Coal mining is the basic industry'

0:14

54

XII

Andante: 'There are the miners'

0:23

with Simon Russell Beale narrator

Daniel Auchincloss

Adam Green

Mike Flower whistler

55

When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection

0:53

Mary Carewe

Martyn Brabbins