Ben Palmer - Elgar: The Binyon Settings (2014)

This unique release not only commemorates the outbreak of WW1 through the music of Sir Edward Elgar but celebrates the poetry of Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), a writer whose work should be more widely known. It is possible that Binyon wrote the best known verse of poetry during World War 1 and even the best known verse of the war. In For the Fallen, a poem written at the end of August 1914 during the retreat from Mons by the British Army, Binyon recognizes the challenges, hardship and struggle the ordinary British soldier will face in the years to come. Within For the Fallen is the verse recited throughout the country on Remembrance Sunday before war memorials, services and other ceremonies such as The Festival of Remembrance.