Duke Special Presents The Songs From Mother Courage and her Children

Duke says;

Two Januarys ago I played at the Irish film awards ceremony in LA - 'The Oscar Wildes.' This is an annual event at which 3 people are honoured for their contribution to Irish film or to the wider film industry. That year it was Colm Meaney, Fiona Shaw and James L. Brooks. I played a solo show - just me, a piano, a record player and visuals projected onto the skin of an old bass drum. I didn't meet Fiona there but a few months later she appeared with the organiser of the event - Trina Vargo and renowned director - Deborah Warner at a concert which Neil Hannon and I were playing for Amnesty International in Dublin. A few months later I was invited to go and see Fiona and Deborah's production of Beckett's "Happy Days" at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. I met with Deborah and Fiona afterwards in the lobby when they first proposed that I write new music for a Brecht play they were considering working on called 'Mother Courage'. Fast forward to now, almost 2 years from that concert in L.A., here I am sitting in my dressing room at the National Theatre in London half way through my debut theatre run, writing notes for the Mother Courage album!

1. Prelude
2. Mother Courage
3. Eilif (Song about the soldier and his wife)
4. Yvette (Song of fraternization)
5. Song of The Hours
6. The Great Capitulation
7. Soldier’s Song
8. Mother Courage (and the threat of peace)
9. Cook’s Song
10. Farmhouse Song
11. Lullaby
12. Mother Courage Finale