New Arrivals/Restock

Title: Starlight Express
Artist: Andrew Davis
Label: Chandos
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 095115511121
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2012-11-13
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD

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.

Tracks:
1.1 Act I Scene 1: To the Children
1.2 Act I Scene 1: In the Village of Bourcelles in the Swiss
1.3 Act I Scene 1: Just Then a Lamplighter
1.4 Act I Scene 1: At That Time, Henry Had Told Him About the Old Railway
1.5 Act I Scene 1: The Mother of Them All
1.6 Act I Scene 1: Oh! But I'm Forgetting the Most Important One of All
1.7 Act I Scene 1: They Were Always Eager to Hear His Poetry
1.8 Act I Scene 1: And Suddenly a New, Enormous Thing Stirred in Their Father's Heart
1.9 Act I Scene 1: As Though on Cue
1.10 Act I Scene 1: To the Children: That's Odd, Said Mother
1.11 Act I Scene 1: Gold and Had Put It on for Warmth Against the Cool Evening Air
1.12 Act I Scene 1: Before Them Stood An Extremely Dishevelled Figure Holding a Suitcase
1.13 Act I Scene 1: As Daddy Took Charge of the Luggage
1.14 Act I Scene 1: We Want to Tell You Something
1.15 Act I Scene 1: All the Rules I Swear to Keep
1.16 Act I Scene 1: Are You Sure You Have Everything You Need?
1.17 Act II Scene 1: The Blue-Eyed Fairy
1.18 Act II Scene 1: They Found a Clearing with the Open Sky Above Them
1.19 Act II Scene 1: Henry Explained That the Pleiades Had Been Attendants Upon Artemis
1.20 Act II Scene 1: The Sun Has Gone
1.21 Act II Scene 1: The Sun Has Gone: Now, Cats Are Curious Creatures, and Riquette Was No Exception
1.22 Act II Scene 1: Turning Towards the Open Window
1.23 Act II Scene 1: At Length Jinny Came Out of the Cave and Came Over to Them
1.24 Act II Scene 1: Then There's Madame Jequier and Dear Miss Waghorn
1.25 Act II Scene 1: Could It Be?
1.26 Act II Scene 1: And with That the First Passenger Hurried By Them
1.27 Act II Scene 1: The Sweep
1.28 Act II Scene 1: Then a Fantastic, Light, Twirling Creature
1.29 Act II Scene 1: I'm Ev'rywhere
1.30 Act II Scene 1: And the Shabby Tramp, Playing His Barrel Organ
1.31 Act II Scene 1: Well, Let's See Now
1.32 Act II Scene 1: Wake Up, You Little Night Winds
1.33 Act II Scene 1: Dance of the Winds
1.34 Act II Scene 1: But Where's Cousin Henry?
1.35 Act II Scene 1: I'm Ev'rywhere: Ah! Anyone Gazing Skywards at That Moment
1.36 Act II Scene 1: Sun Dance
1.37 Act II Scene 2: Madame Jequier's Constant Anxiety
1.38 Act II Scene 2: Dandelions, Daffodils
1.39 Act II Scene 2: In Her Attic Chamber Above
1.40 Act II Scene 2: Henry Turned to the Children
1.41 Act II Scene 3: At the Citadelle
1.42 Act II Scene 3: O, Stars Shine Brightly
1.43 Act II Scene 3: The Sprites Had Almost Finished Their Task
1.44 Act II Scene 3: The Sprites Flitted Out, Back to the Starlight Express
1.45 Act II Scene 3: Dawn Song
2.1 Act III Scene 1: My Old Tunes
2.2 Act III Scene 1: Dandelions, Daffodils
2.3 Act III Scene 1: Miss Waghorn, Whose Confusion of Mind
2.4 Act III Scene 1: My Main Idea Is This
2.5 Act III Scene 1: Then Mother Spoke
2.6 Act III Scene 1: A Few Days Later Henry Left to Return to London
2.7 Act III Scene 2: It Was Late Evening on the Day of His Arrival
2.8 Act III Scene 2: And Suddenly He Remembered An Extraordinary Conversation
2.9 Act III Scene 2: All Three Children, Perhaps Sent Back from Their Nocturnal Enterprises
2.10 Act III Scene 2: Sympathy - Hearts Must Be Soft-Shiny Dressed'
2.11 Act III Scene 2: Jinny Said, with Her Characteristic Gravity
2.12 No. 1. the Organ-Grinder's Song
2.13 No. 2. the Dustman's Song
2.14 No. 3. the Gardener's Song
2.15 I. to the Children
2.16 II. Andantino
2.17 III. the Blue-Eyed Fairy
2.18 IV. the Sun Has Gone
2.19 V. Andantino
2.20 VI. Lento
2.21 VII. Allegro
2.22 VIII. I'm Ev'rywhere
2.23 IX. Wake Up, You Little Night Winds
2.24 X. Dance of the Winds
2.25 XI. Lento
2.26 XII. Sun Dance
2.27 XIII. Andante
2.28 XIV. Allegretto
2.29 XV. O, Stars Shine Brightly
2.30 XVI. Dawn Song
2.31 XVII. My Old Tunes
2.32 XVIII. Dandelions, Daffodils
2.33 XIX. Moderato
2.34 XX. Hearts Must Be Soft-Shiny Dressed
2.35 XXI. Grandioso