Ivor Novello: Keep The Home Fires Burning - BBC Proms 2012
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As part of Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello, Sir Mark Elder leads the Hallé and Toby Spence (tenor) in Keep The Home Fires Burning.
This concert was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; it is available on-demand for seven days after broadcast. Radio 3 is streamed in HD sound online. Scheduled broadcast on BBC Two, Saturday 11th August at 9.00pm.
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This was his first major concert following a serious operation for thyroid cancer. Well done, bravo!
It was very popular 100 years ago - I think it would have been of special significance to most of the British public - certainly those with relatives in France & Belgium. You might imagine the emotional impact this piece would have on a soldier in the trenches or his mother at home .
Novello's greatest hit? Possibly - and it's endured along with his name.
It was the only song remembered and written during WWI. In WWII, he wrote several songs that is remembered.
owleyes 11 there is loads of songs played from WWI
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II left us today, 08 September 2022. This is her theme. God Save the Queen.
This man has a good voice
I sing this often . . one of my favorites, and often tears flow.
Chorus
Keep the Homefires Burning
While your heart is Yurning
Though your good lad's far away
They Dream of Home
Through the silver lining
Theres a dark cloud shining
Turn that dark cloud inside-out
Till the boys come home
Keep the home fires burning
while your hearts are yearning
Though your lads are far away
they dream of home.
There's a silver lining
through the dark clouds shining
Turn the dark clouds inside out
'til the boys come home.
I wonder why they cut out the first verse of the song?
"They were summoned from the hillside
They were called in from the glen,
And the country found them ready
At the stirring call for men.
Let no tears add to their hardships
As the soldiers pass along,
And although your heart is breaking
Make it sing this cheery song"
The last 3 verses, which he sings here, are fine.
The song no matter how well sung, is incomplete for me without all of the verses. My mother taught me this song when a very young child. It might be my favourite along with Ivor's other great song, "My Dearest Dear".
Very beautiful and moves the heart
Was my grandfathers favorite tune! "Cheers!"
Great performance of great WW 1 song
Beautiful❤
astonishing upload BBC. I crushed that thumbs up on your video. Continue to keep up the high-quality work.
Never forget the brave soldiers who died in the mud and hell on the fields of Flanders. We will remember them.
hope they performed this song at Harry Patch funeral!
Perhaps
I understand the many flaws but this song did mean a lot to a lot of my relatives and others.
Much love for the mother country from America
Very touching song
Why would anyone dislike amagine the people
This song helped me in my english homework as we had to annotate this song :)
In the context of history...? The song about death, hope and love. Strong and sad.
It is a song made during WW1 in Britain. The song is telling the folks back home to go about their day normally without worrying about their boys on the frontlines and that they will be back soon.
It was a great idea to include Novello's fine songs in a promenade concert. Toby Spence sounds more vocally at ease here than in the Gather Lilacs duet. He is a really fine artist, but not usually associated with this style . Perhaps that explains the slightly stiff posture and discomfort you mention JohnOX4? None the less a lovely concert.
He was 16 when he wrote this for the soldiers of the great war and those of us of the British Empire what a sad shame a hundred years on he's not remembered and the youth of today are insipid by contrast !!!
Actually he was 21 (born in 1893, song composed in 1914). Still a pretty good achievement for someone so young. . .
I wish I'd written something as fine as this ever, let alone just when I was 16!
Ivor has not been forgotten by those of us who love romantic music. There are many young singers performing his songs on YT!
just found out this is the song at the end of Metallica's "ONE"
been wondering that for YEARS!!
Bee Kaye yup ur right
+Alpha Wolf best version I've heard of this song is in Johnny got his gun the movie that the song one from Metallica are based on
sajad adel YES!!!! DEFINITELY!!! lol i remember after my father died we did this song near a bon fire on memorial day
An evocative chorus that respects those who suffered in that war. All it needs is some new verses to replace the cheap and nasty ones that demean the singer and audience.
This song isn't heard much apart from the many recordings from 1914-18, very few modern singers would feel comfortable with it. The Incredible String Band used the chorus very sensitively in their 1971 recording of "Darling Belle" but of course they would have no truck with the verses.
Should only be song by a lyric soprano, the verse at a quicker tempo.
A great piece of music. The singer looks a bit stiff and ill at ease.
Just a guess, but I imagine that it's a pretty fair approximation of the way a singer on stage would have carried himself in the early 20th century. Everything was more formal and starchy then than today.
JohnOX4 He just came out of a cancer operation
Makes modern pop songs sound like garbage.... Of which some of they really are
Metallica brought me here.
Tristan Taimanglo 3 years later Metallica brought me here too .
That's was PAINFUL...
A truly terrible song which almost achieves greatness. Like the rest of Novello's music, it is best performed by the late lamented Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket of Stackton Tressel.
A 'truly terrible' comment which 'almost achieves' being the worst that I've ever seen on the internet.
Truly terrible !!!! Rot this song written by a 16 year old composer rallied troops kept moral up what total bilge u talk I'd like to see u in trenches coping without anything to give u a vestige of moral dame Hilda bracket and hinge u go sing with them !!!! I'd have novello talent any day to vacuous comments like yours
You people realize war songs are created as propaganda items, right???
Dr. Spectre Wrote an 18 page research paper on that exact topic "Music as Propaganda during WWII". We can still enjoy these songs as long as we are aware of their origin as propaganda. We are also allowed to be conflicted over our enjoyment of these songs (snappy tunes are great to get a message stuck in people's minds) in light of their origins.
So? They worked to help the Brit population through a horrible saga.
And what?
Absolutely. So that what we fought for would prevail - thus enabling your ability to comment here.
Cheers!.