Episode 39: Behind The Lines
Sunday, 7th October 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser explores the work of the Scottish First World War composer, Cecil Coles. Coles' compositions describe the hardships of the Great War as he and other British soldiers experienced it. Tragically Cole was not to survive the war. He died aged 29 in 1918.
Episode Playlist
- Cecil Coles - Behind the Lines i: Estaminet de Carrefour
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins
CD Behind the Lines
Hyperion CDA67293 Track 11 - Cecil Coles - Kitchener’s Army
Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland/Capt Tony Smallwood
Private recording - Cecil Coles - Benediction
Jeremy Taylor, tenor Lynda Cochrane, piano
BBC recording - Trad - The Deadly Wars
Jeannie Robertson (recorded by Alan Lomax)
LP A Soldier’s Life for Me: The Folk Songs of Britain Vol.8
Topic 12T196 Side 2 Track 3 - Trad - The Flowers of the Forest
Pipe Major Alan Johnston (Royal Dragoon Guards)
BBC recording - Cecil Coles (orch. Brabbins) - Behind the Lines iii: Cortège
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins
CD Behind the Lines
Hyperion CDA67293 Track 12 - McEwen - Quartet for Strings No.7 ‘Threnody’ IV: Poco meno mosso - lento
Chilingirian Quartet
CD McEwen String Quartets volume 1
Chandos CHAN 9926 Track 7
