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Elgar - The Starlight Express

Name: Elgar - The Starlight Express
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Facts This fairytale melodrama was adapted from a book by Algernon Blackwood a Prisoner in Fairyland for a West End theatre production staged during World War 1 with music by Elgar. Based on a new score which has been adapted by Sir Andrew Davis who also here conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this is the most comprehensive recorded version to date. The two-disc set includes the incidental music with narrative by Simon Callow and an extended suite of freestanding orchestral movements and songs.

Article number:	CHSA5111
Artist:	Elgar
Barcode:	0095115511121
Label:	Chandos
Media:	SACD
Release date:	2012-11-21
Units in packaging:	2

1. Act I Scene 1: To the Children
2. Act I Scene 1: In the Village of Bourcelles in the Swiss
3. Act I Scene 1: Just Then a Lamplighter
4. Act I Scene 1: At That Time, Henry Had Told Him About the Old Railway
5. Act I Scene 1: The Mother of Them All
6. Act I Scene 1: Oh! But I'm Forgetting the Most Important One of All
7. Act I Scene 1: They Were Always Eager to Hear His Poetry
8. Act I Scene 1: And Suddenly a New, Enormous Thing Stirred in Their Father's Heart
9. Act I Scene 1: As Though on Cue
10. Act I Scene 1: To the Children: That's Odd, Said Mother
11. Act I Scene 1: Gold and Had Put It on for Warmth Against the Cool Evening Air
12. Act I Scene 1: Before Them Stood An Extremely Dishevelled Figure Holding a Suitcase
13. Act I Scene 1: As Daddy Took Charge of the Luggage
14. Act I Scene 1: We Want to Tell You Something
15. Act I Scene 1: All the Rules I Swear to Keep
16. Act I Scene 1: Are You Sure You Have Everything You Need?
17. Act II Scene 1: The Blue-Eyed Fairy
18. Act II Scene 1: They Found a Clearing with the Open Sky Above Them
19. Act II Scene 1: Henry Explained That the Pleiades Had Been Attendants Upon Artemis
20. Act II Scene 1: The Sun Has Gone
21. Act II Scene 1: The Sun Has Gone: Now, Cats Are Curious Creatures, and Riquette Was No Exception
22. Act II Scene 1: Turning Towards the Open Window
23. Act II Scene 1: At Length Jinny Came Out of the Cave and Came Over to Them
24. Act II Scene 1: Then There's Madame Jequier and Dear Miss Waghorn
25. Act II Scene 1: Could It Be?
26. Act II Scene 1: And with That the First Passenger Hurried By Them
27. Act II Scene 1: The Sweep
28. Act II Scene 1: Then a Fantastic, Light, Twirling Creature
29. Act II Scene 1: I'm Ev'rywhere
30. Act II Scene 1: And the Shabby Tramp, Playing His Barrel Organ
31. Act II Scene 1: Well, Let's See Now
32. Act II Scene 1: Wake Up, You Little Night Winds
33. Act II Scene 1: Dance of the Winds
34. Act II Scene 1: But Where's Cousin Henry?
35. Act II Scene 1: I'm Ev'rywhere: Ah! Anyone Gazing Skywards at That Moment
36. Act II Scene 1: Sun Dance
37. Act II Scene 2: Madame Jequier's Constant Anxiety
38. Act II Scene 2: Dandelions, Daffodils
39. Act II Scene 2: In Her Attic Chamber Above
40. Act II Scene 2: Henry Turned to the Children
41. Act II Scene 3: At the Citadelle
42. Act II Scene 3: O, Stars Shine Brightly
43. Act II Scene 3: The Sprites Had Almost Finished Their Task
44. Act II Scene 3: The Sprites Flitted Out, Back to the Starlight Express
45. Act II Scene 3: Dawn Song

1. Act III Scene 1: My Old Tunes
2. Act III Scene 1: Dandelions, Daffodils
3. Act III Scene 1: Miss Waghorn, Whose Confusion of Mind
4. Act III Scene 1: My Main Idea Is This
5. Act III Scene 1: Then Mother Spoke
6. Act III Scene 1: A Few Days Later Henry Left to Return to London
7. Act III Scene 2: It Was Late Evening on the Day of His Arrival
8. Act III Scene 2: And Suddenly He Remembered An Extraordinary Conversation
9. Act III Scene 2: All Three Children, Perhaps Sent Back from Their Nocturnal Enterprises
10. Act III Scene 2: Sympathy - Hearts Must Be Soft-Shiny Dressed'
11. Act III Scene 2: Jinny Said, with Her Characteristic Gravity
12. No. 1. the Organ-Grinder's Song
13. No. 2. the Dustman's Song
14. No. 3. the Gardener's Song
15. I. to the Children
16. II. Andantino
17. III. the Blue-Eyed Fairy
18. IV. the Sun Has Gone
19. V. Andantino
20. VI. Lento
21. VII. Allegro
22. VIII. I'm Ev'rywhere
23. IX. Wake Up, You Little Night Winds
24. X. Dance of the Winds
25. XI. Lento
26. XII. Sun Dance
27. XIII. Andante
28. XIV. Allegretto
29. XV. O, Stars Shine Brightly
30. XVI. Dawn Song
31. XVII. My Old Tunes
32. XVIII. Dandelions, Daffodils
33. XIX. Moderato
34. XX. Hearts Must Be Soft-Shiny Dressed
35. XXI. Grandioso

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