Mike Batt - Caravans (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks) / Mike Batt Archive Series / Double CD Edition, Also Contains ''Watership Down Suite'' / Dramatico 2x Audio CD 2010 / DRAMCD0056

UPC 802987018326

Michael Philip Batt, LVO (born 6 February 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, director and conductor. He was formerly the Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.

Having achieved substantial international success as a solo artist, he is particularly known in the UK for creating The Wombles pop act, writing many hits including the chart-topping "Bright Eyes", and discovering Katie Melua.

He has also conducted many of the world's great orchestras, including the London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and Stuttgart Philharmonic in both classical and pop recordings and performances.

Caravans is a 1978 Iranian-American adventure drama film directed by James Fargo based on the 1963 novel by James A. Michener. Nancy Voyles Crawford wrote the screenplay. This film represents people of Afghanistan and their tradition in Qandahar, Badakhshan cities in that time and the Kochi people of Afghanistan. The film was shot in Afghanistan and Iran and starred Anthony Quinn, Jennifer O'Neill, and Michael Sarrazin.

Tracklist:

Disc 1: Caravans

1.  Caravan On The Move

2.  Main Title

3.  Russian Dance

4.  Inside Sardar Khan's Palace

5.  Journey To Badek

6.  The Camp At Qualir

7.  The Desolate Valley

8.  Caravan Song (Feat. Barbara Dickson)

9.  Qualir At Night

10. Storm In The Desert

11. Becky's Walz

12. Kochi Dancer

13. The Aftermath

14. Theme From Caravans

15. Minuet At Nazrullah's (Bonus Track)

Disc 2: Watership Down (Suite For Orchestra)

1.  Watership Down: The Begining (Overture)

2.  On Watership Down

3.  Military Theme And Development

4.  Baroque Tune

5.  Frith's Blessing

6.  Fantasia On A Flying Theme

7.  Winter On A Flying Theme

8.  Chase Adventure From Watership Down

9.  A Kind Of Dream (Choral Fantasia)