Performed by: Sir Neville Marriner cond/The Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, The Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields Chorus, Choristers Of Westminster Cathedral
Narrated by: Christopher Plummer
Arranged by: Christopher Palmer
Composed by: William Walton
Date of composition: 1943-44
Recorded in St. Jude's Church, Central Square, London NW11 on 14-15 May 1990
TIMECODES
I
0:00 - Prologue/London Panorama
3:22 - The Globe
4:43 - "O for a muse of fire"
6:49 - [Allegro]
II
9:18 - Interlude: At the Boar's Head
11:03 - The Death of Falstaff
III
13:49 - Embarkation
14:40 - "Now all the youth of England"
15:42 - [Allegro vivo]
IV
17:20 - Interlude: "Touch her soft lips and part"
V
19:32 - Harfleur
20:01 - "Once more unto the breach"
21:42 - [Allegro precipitoso]
23:20 - The Night-watch
28:41 - "Upon the King!"
VI
32:24 - Agincourt
33:47 - "This day is called the feast of Crispian."
35:47 - Battle Preparations
37:44 - "Awake remembrance of our valiant dead"
38:24 - Charge and Battle*
45:04 - "The day is ours!"
46:25 - Agincourt Song
VII
47:47 - Interlude: At the French Court
48:27 - "My duty to you both"
49:17 - [Lento tranquilo]
53:02 - "The King of France hath granted every article"**
VIII
54:13 - Epilogue
58:21 - Agincourt Song: Reprise
* = 38:24-42:21 performed by William Walton cond/The Philharmonia Orchestra, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, 15 & 16 Oct 1963
** = the score misses a verse from Act V Scene 2:
O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings,
Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined
to the weak list of a country's fashion:
We are the makers of manners, Kate;
Therefore, patiently, and yielding...
You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate.
SUMMARY
Henry V is a 1944 British Technicolor epic film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same title. It stars Laurence Olivier, who also directed. The play was adapted for the screen by Olivier, Dallas Bower, and Alan Dent. The score is by William Walton.
Winston Churchill instructed Olivier to fashion the film as morale-boosting propaganda for British troops fighting World War II. The making and release of the film coincided with the Allied invasion of Normandy and push into France.
Henry V was the tenth film for which Walton composed incidental music. He had begun in 1935 with a score for Paul Czinner's Escape Me Never, and his later cinema scores included his first Shakespeare film, As You Like It (1936) which starred Laurence Olivier. When Olivier was planning his film of Henry V his co-producer, Dallas Bower, suggested that Walton should write the music, and Olivier agreed. The importance of Walton's score to the success of the film was widely recognised, and Olivier later called it "the most wonderful score I've ever heard on a film".
SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V...)