Preview

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.

CD STACD70010 £10.00 (£8.51)
TAPE STACT70010 £7.00 (£5.96)

Track List

1. Fanfare on the RAF Call (1.25)
2. Introduction and March (from 'The Battle of Britain') (4.34)
3. Luftwaffe March from 'The Battle of Britain' (3.47)
4. Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (7.55)
5. Battle in the Air (1.12)
6. There's Something in the Air (0.32)
7. Flying Home (3.28)
8. Songs that Saw us Through (8.36)

a) Lords of the Air
b) Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer
c) (wer'e gonna) Hang Out the Washing on the Siefried Line
d) A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
e) Run Rabiit, Run
f) I've Got Sixpence
g) Kiss Me Goognight Seargent Major
h) The White Cliffs of Dover
i) There'll Always be and England

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Catalogue No. STACD 70010

9. Grand March 'RAF' (4.00)
10.Scramble (6.32)
11. Battle of Britain Suite (Excerpts) (5.48)
12. Per Ardua Ad Astra (2.26)
13. Elegy on Rge Royal Air Force March Past (3.51)
14. Ad Astra (4.50)
15. Royal Air Force March Past (2.03)