Elgar / Thomas / Scottish Chamber Orch / Davis Starlight Express Super-Audio CD

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.

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 46. Act III Scene 1: My Old Tunes 47. Act III Scene 1: Dandelions, Daffodils 48. Act III Scene 1: Miss Waghorn, Whose Confusion of Mind 49. Act III Scene 1: My Main Idea Is This 50. Act III Scene 1: Then Mother Spoke 51. Act III Scene 1: A Few Days Later Henry Left to Return to London 52. Act III Scene 2: It Was Late Evening on the Day of His Arrival 53. Act III Scene 2: And Suddenly He Remembered An Extraordinary Conversation 54. Act III Scene 2: All Three Children, Perhaps Sent Back from Their Nocturnal Enterprises 55. Act III Scene 2: Sympathy - Hearts Must Be Soft-Shiny Dressed' 56. Act III Scene 2: Jinny Said, with Her Characteristic Gravity 57. No. 1. the Organ-Grinder's Song 58. No. 2. the Dustman's Song 59. No. 3. the Gardener's Song 60. I. to the Children 61. II. Andantino 62. III. the Blue-Eyed Fairy 63. IV. the Sun Has Gone 64. V. Andantino 65. VI. Lento 66. VII. Allegro 67. VIII. I'm Ev'rywhere 68. IX. Wake Up, You Little Night Winds 69. X. Dance of the Winds 70. XI. Lento 71. XII. Sun Dance 72. XIII. Andante 73. XIV. Allegretto 74. XV. O, Stars Shine Brightly 75. XVI. Dawn Song 76. XVII. My Old Tunes 77. XVIII. Dandelions, Daffodils 78. XIX. Moderato 79. XX. Hearts Must Be Soft-Shiny Dressed 80. XXI. Grandioso