This profound CD artfully combines words and music as a memorial to the 100th anniversary of the First World War. “Here is both music and poetry that commemorates those dreadful years from 1914 to 1918. The beauty of both song and verse is there to be received and enjoyed – but also to remind us that the ‘War to end war’ did not do that, and one hundred years on, we still inhabit a war-torn world.” (Peter Atkinson) This is the Proteus Ensemble’s debut album, recorded in Worcester Cathedral. Track Listing: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) Elegy (Organ Solo) David Briggs (1944-1995) Messe pour Notre Dame Kyrie – Sanctus – Benedictus – Agnus Dei O Lord, support us John Tavener (1944-2013) Exhortation (They shall grow not old) Kohima (When you go home) Edgar Bainton (1880-1956) And I saw a new Heaven Donald Hunt (b. 1930) Quam dilecta! Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Méditation (Organ Solo) James MacMillan (b. 1959) Serenity Pierre Villette (1926-1998) Jesu Dulcis Memoria Including Readings Interspersed: Reading Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, Verses 1–8 Reading To His Love — Ivor Gurney Reading Still falls the Rain — Dame Edith Louise Sitwell Reading Not to Keep — Robert Frost Reading Everyone Sang — Siegfried Sassoon Reading The Veteran — Margaret P Cole Reading May 1915 — Charlotte Mew Reading For the Fallen — Laurence Binyon Total Playing Time: 66:15 2014, Regent Records Ltd