How to depict scenes of battle in music is a task that has long fascinated composers. From the dawning of the Renaissance the first successful programmatic works appeared from Susato, Dowland and Biber. But it was the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that witnessed a true flourishing, when composers utilised the full resources of contemporary symphonism to evoke the tumult of battle. Later the medium of film, notably those produced in Hollywood, brought with it colourful and gripping scores.

Artists

Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Stanislavsky Chorus, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenárd, Salvador Mas Conde, Marin Alsop, Dmitry Yablonsky, David Lloyd-Jones, Gerard Schwarz, William Stromberg, Adriano, Adrian Leaper, Jun Märkl, Antoni Wit, Andrew Mogrelia, Gerhard Markson, Uwe Mund

Balada: Guernica Beethoven: Wellington's Victory, Op. 91 (Battle Symphony) Coates, E: Dam Busters March Debussy: Berceuse héroïque Delibes: Coppelia Harris, Roy: Symphony No. 6 ‘Gettysburg’ Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 2nd Janáček: Taras Bulba Khachaturian: The battle of Stalingrad Kodály: Háry János Suite Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood Newman, A: Beau Gesture (1939) Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 Rimsky Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or Smetana: Vltava (from Má Vlast) Strauss, R: A Hero's Life, Op. 40 Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa Wagner: The Valkyrie: Ride of the Valkyries Conductors Adriano Alsop, Marin Leaper, Adrian Lenárd, Ondrej Lloyd-Jones, David Märkl, Jun Mogrelia, Andrew Black, Gerard Stromberg, William Wit, Antoni Yablonsky, Dmitry