"A Tribute to The Battle of Britain"
"A Tribute to The Battle of Britain"
Bandleader Standard [compilation
1999] STACD 70010 [Compact Disc]
For
this musical tribute to "The Few", we begin with the "Fanfare on the RAF Call" by Randolph O'Donnell
past Director of Music of the RAF Central Band. The film "The Battle of Britain" originally had a score by Sir William
Walton which was rejected by the film's producers. Ron Goodwin contributed the bulk of the film's music, of which
two marches were chosen here, "The Battle of Britain March" and the "Luftwaffe March", now Anglicised
and often played by RAF Bands as "Aces High" . Sir William Walton was one of the leading British composers of this
century, his wartime masterpiece "Spitfire Prelude and Fugue" was composed for the film "The First of the Few"
and graphically captures the history of this famous aircraft in music.
Royal Air Force Central Band: Fanfare on the RAF Call - Introduction & March
[from ‘The Battle of Britain’] - Luftwaffe March [from ‘The Battle of Britain’] - Spitfire Prelude
& Fugue - Grand March RAF - Per Ardua Ad Astra - Royal Air Force March Past. RAF Massed Bands: Battle in the
Air - Songs That Saw us Through: Lords of the Air/Coming in on A Wing & a Prayer/[We’re Gonna] Hang Out
The Washing on the Siegfried Line/A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square/Run Rabbit Run/I’ve Got Sixpence/Kiss Me Goodnight
Sergeant Major/The White Cliffs of Dover/There’ll Always be an England. RAF Squadronaires: There’s
Something in the Air - Flying Home. RAF Cranwell Band: Scramble. RAF Regiment Band: Battle of Britain Suite
[excerpts] - Elegy on the RAF March Past - Ad Astra
Item #STACD 70010[CD]
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