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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. Details 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 I
