Sport & Leisure
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Released: 8th May 1996 Themes International TIM 25 CD "Celebrating achievement in sport and human endeavour"
Released by KPM on
their Themes International imprint, Sport & Leisure features library music
versions of much of the music that Ant wrote and recorded for ITV's televised coverage of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht
Race. For their release as library pieces several of the tracks were re-mixed by Ant and Trevor Vallis to better fit the requirements of library music.
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All of the tracks on this CD were given new titles for library use.
We have annotated them here with the original titles they were given on Sail The World
1. Homeward Bound (a) (2:27) [Opening Theme]
2. Homeward Bound (b) (1:00) [Closing Theme]
3. The Grand Winners (5:12) [I Wish This Would Never End]
4. The Preparation (2:31) [Dark Seas]
5. Quiet Reflections (3:38) [Wildlife Choir]
6. Moving Ahead (2:59) [Big Combers]
7. The Glider (2:20) [In The Doldrums]
8. Victory Bound (3:22) [Heading For Home & Victory]
9. Paradise (3:18)
10. The Dream Race (3:28)
11. Teamwork (3:07) [In The Southern Ocean]
12. Coral Reef (3:22) [Lonely Whales]
13. Pulling Together (2:52) [Into The Tropics]
14. Eastern Magic (a) (3:42) [Wildlife Flotilla]
15. Eastern Magic (b) (3:31)
16. Fastnet Race (3:30) [Cool Sailing]
17. Easing Ahead (2:20) [The Fremantle Doctor]
18. Breaking Free (3:13) [Cool Sailing II]
19. Against The Odds (2:43) [Roaring Forties]
20. Ocean Bed (2:12) [Amongst Mythical Birds]
21. Against The Clock (2:39) [Fast Work]
22. The Victors (1:34) [original title: One To Go]
(Track 23 on the CD - Into The Sunset (1:50) - is by composers Steven James and Douglas Carroll and has no connection to Ant)
Tracks 1 - 21 composed by Anthony Phillips
Track 22 composed by Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford
Credits
Anthony Phillips: Keyboards, guitars, drum programming
Mike Rutherford: Guitars, bass on track 22
Pete Van Hooke: Drums on track 22
The Dream Race was given a commercial release on CD 2 of the Expanded Edition of Sail The World in 2025
The Victors was originally written and recorded by Ant and Mike as the theme music for the six-part TVS series Horse Trials, for which Mike's wife Angie was one of the presenters.
It was given a commercial release on CD 2 of the Expanded Edition of Wildlife in 2023.
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