Siegfried Sasoon - Memorial Tablet

Memorial Tablet is a collection of readings by the writer and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), available on CD and digital download.Recorded in the 1950s, Sassoon reads three extracts from his autobiographical prose works Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and The Weald of Youth, covering the outbreak of war in 1914 and his experience of the Battle of the Somme two years later. He also recites ten of his best known war poems, including The Dug-Out, At Carnoy, Attack, Died of Wounds, 12 Months After, The Troops, Memorial Tablet, On Passing the New Menin Gate and To One Who Was With Me in the War.The 57 minute CD also includes readings of eight postwar civilian poems by Sassoon, as well as commentary on his life and work by three other celebrated Great War writers: Edmund Blunden, Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson. The spoken word material is punctuated by the very first recording of Edward Elgar's celebrated Violin Concerto, made in December 1916 with Marie Hall on violin. The piece w