Mother Courage and Her Children
Studio album by
Released28 February 2010
GenreRock/musical theatre
Length36:53
LabelReel to Reel
Duke Special chronology
Little Revolutions
(2009)
Mother Courage and Her Children
(2010)
The Silent World of Hector Mann
(2010)

Mother Courage and her Children is a 2010 album by Duke Special, featuring the songs he composed and performed for the National Theatre's 2009 production of Berthold Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children,[1] with Brecht's lyrics translated by Tony Kushner.[2]

It was released both on its own and as part of a box set entitled The Stage, A Book And The Silver Screen, which also includes The Silent World of Hector Mann and the Huckleberry Finn EP, funded via the online crowdsourcing platform PledgeMusic.[3]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Tony Kushner; all music is composed by Duke Special, except where noted

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Prelude" 2:55
2."Mother Courage" 3:28
3."Eilif (Song about the soldier and his wife)"Duke Special and Paul Pilot[4]4:07
4."Yvette (Song of fraternization)" 3:51
5."Song of The Hours" 4:58
6."The Great Capitulation" 3:32
7."Soldier’s Song" 1:42
8."Mother Courage (and the threat of peace)" 1:05
9."Cook’s Song" 3:18
10."Farmhouse Song" 2:02
11."Lullaby" 2:22
12."Mother Courage Finale" 3:38

References

  1. Features: Duke Special, Culture Northern Ireland, 29 June 2010
  2. Erin Elizabeth, Interviews: Duke Special, QRO, 11 November 2009
  3. Jack Foley, Duke Special - The Stage, a Book and the Silver Screen, IndieLondon
  4. Duke Special, "The Songs of Mother Courage" 2010, PaulPilot.com
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