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Coal Face, Original Film Score (1935)

Martyn Brabbins, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Simon Russell Beale (Speaker), Malcolm Wilson (Piano), Daniel Auchincloss (Tenor), Adam Green (Baritone), Mike Flower (Whistle)
℗ 2012
12 Tracks, 11:53
    • 1. A sterile landscape covers the ore. Andante (Chorus)
      00:40
    • 2. Coal mining is the basic industry of Britain (Narrator)
      01:11
    • 3. The chief coal-producing centres are in South Wales. Andante (Narrator, Chorus)
      00:42
    • 4. Yorkshire and Lancashire (Narrator, Chorus)
      01:01
    • 5. The temp'rature often reaches eighty degrees. Moderato (Narrator)
      00:29
    • 6. The seven and a half hour shift begins. Andante (Narrator, Chorus)
      00:48
    • 7. One thirty a.m. Ad libitum sempre (Narrator)
      00:50
    • 8. In many pits machinery supplements hand labour. Allegro ma non troppo (Narrator, Chorus)
      01:05
    • 9. The shift is finished. Allegro molto (Narrator, Chorus)
      02:03
    • 10. Making up coal trains (Narrator)
      02:27
    • 11. Coal mining is the basic industry of Britain. Allegro (Narrator)
      00:14
    • 12. There are the miners. Andante (Chorus)
      00:23