Title:	Checkmate Suite / Hymn to Apollo
Genre:	Classical
Composers:	Arthur Bliss
Conductors:	Richard Hickox, Vernon Handley
Orchestras:	Northern Sinfonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Ulster Orchestra
Performers:	Janet Hilton, Sinfon a Chorus, Sinfonía Chorus
Label:	Chandos
Release Date:	4/13/1999

- Disc 1 -
1 Checkmate Suite: I Prologue: The Players
2 Checkmate Suite: II Dance of the Four Knights
3 Checkmate Suite: III Entry of the Black Queen
4 Checkmate Suite: IV the Red Knight's Mazurka
5 Checkmate Suite: V Ceremony of the Red Bishops
6 Checkmate Suite: VI Finale: Checkmate
7 Quintet for Clarinet and Strings: I Moderato
8 Quintet for Clarinet and Strings: II Allegro Molto
9 Quintet for Clarinet and Strings: III Adagietto Espressivo - Allegro Moderato
10 Quintet for Clarinet and Strings: IV Allegro Enerigico
11 Hymn to Apollo
- Disc 2 -
1 Music for Strings: I Allegro Moderato, Energico
2 Music for Strings: II Andante, Molto Sostenuto
3 Music for Strings: III Allegro Molto
4 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': I Introduction and the Shepherd's Holyday
5 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': II a Hymn to Pan
6 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': III Pan's Saraband
7 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': IV Pan and Echo
8 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': V the Naiads' Music
9 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': VI the Pigeon Song
10 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': VII the Song of the Reapers
11 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': VIII Finale
12 Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks': IX the Sheperd's Night-Song

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