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...Mother Courage & Her Children', features music written by Duke to a new production of Brecht's 'Mother Courage'
CD features Duke-penned music for Bertold Brecht’s 1939 classic anti-war play, Mother Courage And Her Children, which ran in London’s National Theatre late last year. While it’s difficult to assess its effectiveness without the accompanying visuals, it remains a powerful piece of work, and showcases Special’s growing talent as a songwriter, with a stirring, fully orchestrated score, and songs which follow the trials and travails of a group of soldiers who “fight for God and legal tender” during the Thirty Years War of the 1600s. Highlights include the moving ‘Yvette (Song Of Fraternisation)’, the Jacques Brel-like debauchery of ‘Soldier’s Song’ and the epic ‘Mother Courage’ itself, while he even manages a song about the crucifixion of Christ in ‘Song Of The Hours’.
Track listing:
1. Prelude
2. Mother Courage
3. Eilif (Song About The Soldier And His Wife)
4. Yvette (Song Of Fraternization)
5. Song Of The Hours
6. Great Capitulation, The
7. Soldier's Song
8. Mother Courage (And The Threat Of Peace)
9. Cook's Song
10. Farmhouse Song
11. Lullaby
12. Mother Courage Finale
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