Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

A Song of Welcome: Welcome! our May-time flares, and you return (chorus)

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Bliss conducts Bliss: A Song of Welcome etc

02:42

A Song of Welcome: You went the way of the sun (chorus)

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Bliss conducts Bliss: A Song of Welcome etc

00:28

A Song of Welcome: Tilting airfields rose to meet you (sop., bar., chorus)

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Bliss conducts Bliss: A Song of Welcome etc

02:18

A Song of Welcome: Behind the façades and faces (sop., chorus)

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Bliss conducts Bliss: A Song of Welcome etc

02:08

A Song of Welcome: A common wealth of growing love (chorus, sop.)

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Bliss conducts Bliss: A Song of Welcome etc

02:19

A Song of Welcome: Behind the salutes and the speeches (bar., chorus)

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Bliss conducts Bliss: A Song of Welcome etc

01:25

A Song of Welcome: The forward bloom and stride of man (chorus, sop., bar.)

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Bliss conducts Bliss: A Song of Welcome etc

02:29

A Song of Welcome: Soon it is dawn (chorus, sop., bar.)

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Dame Joan Sutherland/John Cameron/BBC Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Bliss conducts Bliss: A Song of Welcome etc

02:46