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On the Frontier (Incidental music, 1938)

Text: Nicholas Isherwood, Wystan Hugh Auden
Jeffrey Skidmore, Ex Cathedra, Mervyn Cooke (Piano), Lucy Walker (Piano), Matthew Dickinson (Percussion), Jonathan Holland (Trumpet), Bruce Nockles (Trumpet), Samuel West (Speaker)
2013, Manchester, Halle St Peters
13 Tracks, 23:28
    • 1. Overture
      00:50
    • 2. Ad libitum
      01:25
    • 3. Chorus: The clock on the wall gives an electric tick
      04:07
    • 4. Prisoner's Monologue: 'Industrialists, bankers, in comfortable chairs
      02:11
    • 5. Fanfare
      00:38
    • 6. Moderato
      00:26
    • 7. Fanfare
      01:08
    • 8. Chorus: Marching Songs: Brightly the sun on our weapons is gleaming
      01:23
    • 9. Chorus: Ostnian National Anthem
      00:26
    • 10. Chorus: Waltz: The papers say there'll be war before long
      04:34
    • 11. Chorus: Journalists' Song: We fly to a cabinet crisis
      00:53
    • 12. Interlude
      02:53
    • 13. Chorus: To build a city
      02:34