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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Ben Hollings
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog was commissioned by Leigh Baker and the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band, for the 2014 Brass in Concert Championships at the Sage, Gateshead.
The theme for the programme was a modern take on Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, where each piece was based upon a painting. Mussorgsky’s Promenade theme can be heard as a motif throughout the piece and is interwoven with original thematic ideas. The piece was inspired by a painting entitled ‘Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog’, and explores the theme in a variation of styles, including a slow and tranquil opening, which builds into a fast, loud and exciting finale.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: William Walton Arranger: Paul Hindmarsh Transcribed: Christopher Palmer
During the Second World War William Walton provided music for films deemed to be of 'national importance'. Lawrence Olivier's Shakespeare epic Henry V in 1943 was the most substantial. His role in patriotic films from 1941 and 42 like The Foreman went to France, Next of Kin, Went the day Well and The First of the Few was to provide appropriate title music and some underscoring at key moments. Walton extracted the most substantial portions of the latter as the popular Spitfire Prelude and Fugue for orchestra. The remaining music remained unpublished until 1990, when Christopher Palmer assembled the highlights into A Wartime Sketchbook.
This brass band arrangement was produced between 1990 and1992 for Besses o' th' Barn Band and subsequently recorded by Black Dyke Mills Band as part of an award-winning all Walton CD (ASV CD WHL 2093).
01. Prologue: The stirring title music from Went the day Well, a screen play by Graham Greene about a German airborne invasion of an English village. 02. Bicycle Chase: Characteristic musical high-jinks for J.B.Priestley's The Foreman went to France. 03. Refugees: From the same film, this is a poignant accompaniment to the long march of refugees. 04. Young Siegfrieds: This lively movement comes from the music that Walton composed for The Battle of Britain in 1968. portraying first the Berliners, cheerfully ignoring the black-out and then, in the trio, the Young Siegfrieds of the Luftwaffe, courtesy of a parody of Siegfried's horn call from Wagner's opera. 05. Romance: A soldier and a Dutch refugee snatch a few tender moments together in Next of Kin. 06. Epilogue: At the end of The Foreman went to France, the French look forward with hope and optimism to eventual liberation.
Duration: 14 mins (Romance: 3 mins; Young Seigfrieds 4 mins)
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: William Walton Arranger: Paul Hindmarsh Transcribed: Christopher Palmer
During the Second World War William Walton provided music for films deemed to be of 'national importance'. Lawrence Olivier's Shakespeare epic Henry V in 1943 was the most substantial. His role in patriotic films from 1941 and 42 like The Foreman went to France, Next of Kin, Went the day Well and The First of the Few was to provide appropriate title music and some underscoring at key moments. Walton extracted the most substantial portions of the latter as the popular Spitfire Prelude and Fugue for orchestra. The remaining music remained unpublished until 1990, when Christopher Palmer assembled the highlights into A Wartime Sketchbook.
This brass band arrangement was produced between 1990 and1992 for Besses o' th' Barn Band and subsequently recorded by Black Dyke Mills Band as part of an award-winning all Walton CD (ASV CD WHL 2093).
01. Prologue: The stirring title music from Went the day Well, a screen play by Graham Greene about a German airborne invasion of an English village. 02. Bicycle Chase: Characteristic musical high-jinks for J.B.Priestley's The Foreman went to France. 03. Refugees: From the same film, this is a poignant accompaniment to the long march of refugees. 04. Young Siegfrieds: This lively movement comes from the music that Walton composed for The Battle of Britain in 1968. portraying first the Berliners, cheerfully ignoring the black-out and then, in the trio, the Young Siegfrieds of the Luftwaffe, courtesy of a parody of Siegfried's horn call from Wagner's opera. 05. Romance: A soldier and a Dutch refugee snatch a few tender moments together in Next of Kin. 06. Epilogue: At the end of The Foreman went to France, the French look forward with hope and optimism to eventual liberation.
Duration: 14 mins (Romance: 3 mins; Young Seigfrieds 4 mins)
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer / arranger: Svendson arr. Nikolaisen
A Norwegian folk song, harmonized by one of the best Norwegian composers Johan S. Svendsen. The brass band instrumentation is by Eivind Nils Nicolaisen, tuba player of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Bob Barton Material: Traditional
The Water is Wide, O Waly Waly, two everlasting Irish ballads have been arranged as one to create The Water is Wide. These famous Irish titles have been recorded by many artists over the years, but non more so than Renaud, "Merchants of Pebbles" recorded in 1991. Great melodies hooks you and they don't let you go. The Water is Wide is perfect for getting your audience singing.
Difficulty: 2 Duration: 2m17s
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