This is a new category created in January 2019 to celebrate the music of Howard Snell - both his original compositions and his arrangements.
Title are being added daily - January 2nd. 2019
Categories: Quintets, Howard Snell Music Composer: Howard Snell
Howard Snell writes :
Originally this short fanfare was written for the Isle of Man Arts Centre, to get the audience out of the bar after the interval. For those of you who are not Manx language scholars, 'Immee Rooin !' = Let’s Go ! = Allons-Y ! (See 'Toot Sweet' in Ten Piece Brass catalogue)
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, Howard Snell Music Composer: Johan Strauss Arranger: Howard Snell
Delightful French polka;featuring a cuckoo & a pistol
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Shooting (of hunting, shooting & fishing) is the theme here. The hunters stalk their game through the woods, no doubt dressed up in as complicated uniform as most brass bands don for contests, and proceed to shoot everything that moves. Johann Strauss the Younger even provides a sacrificial target bird for the end of the piece. For those of squeamish disposition, that is the moment to 'look away now'.
Categories: Hymn Tunes, Howard Snell Music Composer: J.S. Bach Arranger: Howard Snell
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Joyous, brilliant and full-on, this piece, originally for Organ, is as exhilarating as anyone could wish. Bach was often asked by his church employers to “tone things down a bit, please Mr Bach” and this Prelude is probably the kind of thing they had in mind. Mr Bach paid no attention !
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, Howard Snell Music Composer: Irving Berlin Material: Howard Snell
A still atmospheric melody, one of Berlin's most touching. Duration 3.08
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The 3rd movement of 'An Irving Berlin Suite', this gentle melody is full of warmth and sentiment.
If you enjoyed listening to this extract, you can buy the full recording of this work on the CD section of our site. If you want to perform this work with your band, you can of course purchase the score and parts here right now, by clicking on "BUY NOW".
The recording is 20 SUPREME YEARS on Bocchino BOCC106
Categories: TEN PART BRASS MUSIC, Howard Snell Music Composer: George Bizet Composer / arranger: Howard Snell
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Includes : 1.The Top 2.The Doll 3.Rocking Horses 4.Little Husband, Little Wife 5.Trumpet & Drum 6.The Ball
Symphonic Ten Part Brass Instrumentation: Trumpet in Eb. Trumpet 1 in Bb. Trumpet 2 in Bb. Trumpet 3 in Bb. or Flugelhorn Horn in F or Eb. Trombone 1 in Treble & Tenor Clef Trombone 2 or Baritone in Treble & Tenor Clef. Bass Trombone Euphonium in Treble & Tenor Clef Tuba in Treble & Bass Clef. Percussion where scored.
Howard Snell writes :
These are delicious pieces, images of old-fashioned childhood, written in 1871 originally for piano duet. Bizet died of a heart attack at the age of 36, the composer of the immortal opera Carmen which was deemed a failure after its first performances. The music of this Suite is of the same calibre as Carmen.
Categories: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC, Howard Snell Music Composer: Aram Khachaturian Arranger: Howard Snell
Suite in Four movements : 01. Introduction - Daybreak 02. Waltz 03. Lullaby 04. Lezghinka
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The CD recording is called "PATRONS' CHOICE" featuring the Foden's Richardson Band conducted by Michael Fowles, and is available to purchase on this website in the CD section.
Categories: Trios, Howard Snell Music Composer: A. Vivaldi Material: Howard Snell
features horn section. duration 4.00
The second movement ( Largo ) from Winter of the Four Seasons."The rain drips down outside, but the peasant is warm inside his cottage" is how Vivaldi paints this picture in the score of the 2nd movement of Winter from The Seasons.
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You can buy the full recording of this work on the CD section of our site.
The recording is FAIREY BAND IN CONCERT on Doyen DOY CD224
Categories: TEN PART BRASS MUSIC, Howard Snell Music Composer: G. Rossini Arranger: Howard Snell
A selection of seven pieces : 1. Fanfare; 2. A Caress for my Wife; 3. Bolero; 4. Canzonetta 5. The Shepherdess of the Alps; 6. Duet for Two Cats; 7. Tarantella - Champagne Music ! Each movement can be purchased separately for
Howard Snell writes :
Rossini 'retired' from opera aged 40, to indulge the full pleasures of the Parisian table (you've seen pictures of him) and to compose equally tasty, but lighter morsels for private concerts. These seven musical dishes are delicious, but often very surprising. For example, 'A Caress for My Wife' develops into a fullscale domestic row along the way, while the love 'Duet for Two Cats' is worthy of 'Tristan'. In fact I have inserted a bar of the latter into the arrangement, if only because Rossini and Wagner did not like each other: Wagner didn't like anyone else who was successful and Rossini didn't like pompous bores !
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