RICH AND RARE
MUSIC OF PARADE’S END (THE NOVELS BY FORD MADOX FORD)
When I read the books of Parade’s End, I loved how Ford Madox Ford made so many references to music, and because I was curious to hear what the songs and sounds of the day were like, I tracked down as many of the pieces that I could find and have put them together into a soundtrack. (TBH, I couldn’t have done it if the Carcanet critical editions of the books didn’t have such awesome footnotes. I wouldn’t have been able to find half the songs otherwise; there was so much that I had never heard of before!)
Paola has does an amazing job of compiling my notes and choosing the image to make a booklet and the cover for the album, so my thanks to her, as well as to songstersmiscellany, almaviva90, phantomviola, and 42error for their earlier comments on the music of Parade’s End.
There are more details about each track in the booklet; I’ve included the passages from the books where the songs are referenced, as well as the composer, date of composition, performer, etc. There is a mix of old and new recordings; in some cases I was able to track down WWI-era recordings (like ‘Over There’), but I also chose recordings from different time periods if I liked the modern interpretation better (e.g., Paul Robeson singing ‘John Brown’s Body’ in 1939). I’ve provided links to my longer blog posts on some of the specific pieces, but the album can be found here.
BOOK 1: SOME DO NOT…
1. Highland Mary / Towne Singers (2004) / Song setting of a poem by Robert Burns (1759-1796)
2. Hullo, Central, Give Me No Man’s Land / Al Jolson (1916) / Popular Song
3. Land of Hope and Glory/ Dame Clara Butt (1911) / Sir Edward Elgar (1901)
4. Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore / John Elwes (2007) / Ballad by Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
5. (D’ye Ken) John Peel? / Richard Dyer-Bennet (1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recording) / English Folk Song
6. Nut Brown Maiden / Stephen Quigg (2000) /EnglishFolk Song (collected by Thomas Percy in 1765)
7. The Rite of Spring: Part I, Introduction / London Symphony Orchestra (2005) / Igor Stravinksy (1913 premier at Les Ballets Russes, in Paris)
8. In Der Fremde (In Foreign Lands) /Matthias Goerne, Eric Schneider (2004) / music by Robert Schumann (1840), words by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
9. Frauenliebe Und Leben Op.42 — 2. ‘Er, Der Herrlichste Von Allen’ (‘He, the Most Glorious of All’)/ Anne Sofie Von Otter (1996) / Music by Robert Schumann (1840), words by Adelbert von Chamisso, Frauenliebe (Women’s Love)
10. Blow Away the Morning Dew/ John Langstaff and Martin Best (2005) /English & Scottish Folk Song (17th century)
BOOK 2: NO MORE PARADES
11. Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D, Op. 39, No. 1: Trio / Sir Edward Elgar & London Symphony Orchestra (1931) / Sir Edward Elgar (1901)
12. Du Bist Wie Eine Blume, Op.25, No.24/ Bryn Terfel & Malcolm Martineau (2000) / Music by Robert Schumann (1840), words by Heinrich Heine (1825)
13. Land of My Fathers / Fron Male Voice Choir(2011) / Welsh Folk Song and National Anthem
14. Orfeo Ed Euridice:‘Che Faro Senza Euridice’/ Southwest German Chamber Orchestra, Wilhelm Keitel & Graciella Araya (2009) / Christoph Willibald Gluck (1762)
15. Zadok the Priest (HWV 258) / Academy of Ancient Music, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Stephen Cleobury, King’s College Choir, Cambridge, Benjamin Bayl & Alastair Ross (2009) / George Frideric Händel (1727)
16. Four Indian Love Lyrics: Less Than the Dust / Henry Wickham & Susie Allan(2009)/ Music by Amy Woodforde-Finden (1902), poem by Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) (1901)
17. Four Indian Love Lyrics: Kashmiri Song /Henry Wickham & Susie Allan (2009) / Music by Amy Woodforde-Finden (1902), poem by Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) (1901)
18. Tannhäuser: “Naht Euch Dem Strande” (Venusberg Music) / Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Otto Gerdes & Walter Hagen-Groll (1969) / Richard Wagner (1845)
BOOK 3: A MAN COULD STAND UP—
19. The Dettingen Te Deum: 1. We Praise Thee, O God / Choir of Westminster Abbey, Christopher Tipping, Simon Preston, The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock(1984) / George Frideric Händel (1743)
20. John Brown’s Body (tune appropriated for ‘Hang Kaiser Bill’) / Paul Robeson (c. 1939) / American (USA) Folk Song (1861)
21. Father O’Flynn / Carmel Quinn(c. 1960)/ Irish ‘Broadside Ballad’ (c. 1890)
22. Deutschland über alles (German National Anthem) / Captain Helmut Witten & The German Air Force Band (2003) / Joseph Haydn (1797)
23.Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold, Vorspiel (Prelude) / James Levine & Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (2002) / Richard Wagner (1869)
24. Passing By / Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau (2002) / Music by Edward Purcell (d. 1765), words by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
25. The British Grenadiers / Captain David Cole & The Central Band of the Royal British Legion (2010) / English Folk Song (17th Century)
26. Happy Day / Andrew Bird (2007) / African-American Folk Song, after an 18th-century hymn by Philip Doddridge
27. Over There / Nora Bayes (1917) / American Popular Song
28. Ainsi font / Ginette (2003) / French Folk Song
BOOK 4: LAST POST
29. Alceste: ‘Ah per questo già stanco mio core’ / Kirsten Flagstad, Geraint Jones Singers and Orchestra & Geraint Jones (2011) / Christoph Willibald Gluck (1767)
30. Au clair de la lune / André Claveau, Mathé Altéry, Christian Borel & Claire Vallin (1989)/ French Folk Song
31. Don Giovanni: Don Giovanni a cenar teco m´invitasti! / Paul Schöffler, Erich Kunz, Anton Dermota, Carla Martinis, Suzanne Danco, Gustav Neidlinger, Lore Hoffmann, Ludwig Hofmann & Leopold Ludwig (c. 1950) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787)
32. Last Post / The Central Band of the Royal British Legion (2007) / English Folk Song