Elgar and his Peers: The Art of the Military Band
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0170
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 30th June 2017
Contents
Works
St Matthew Passion, BWV244Pomp and Circumstance March no.2 in A minor, op.39 no.2 (arr. Evans)
Pomp and Circumstance March no.5 in C major, op.39 no.5 (arr. Higgins)
Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode 'So many Princesses who have gone' (arr. Higgins)
Severn Suite, op.87 (arr. Geehl)
With Proud Thanksgiving (arr. Winterbottom)
Humoresques (3)
Sea Songs
Toccata marziale
Artists
London Symphonic Concert BandThe Joyful Company of Singers
Conductor
Tom HigginsWorks
St Matthew Passion, BWV244Pomp and Circumstance March no.2 in A minor, op.39 no.2 (arr. Evans)
Pomp and Circumstance March no.5 in C major, op.39 no.5 (arr. Higgins)
Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode 'So many Princesses who have gone' (arr. Higgins)
Severn Suite, op.87 (arr. Geehl)
With Proud Thanksgiving (arr. Winterbottom)
Humoresques (3)
Sea Songs
Toccata marziale
Artists
London Symphonic Concert BandThe Joyful Company of Singers
Conductor
Tom HigginsAbout
In January 1920 Elgar began arranging, for chorus and military band, a much-shortened version of For the Fallen from his Spirit of England. These were wartime settings of verses by Laurence Binyon. This new version had been commissioned to be performed at the unveiling of the Cenotaph in London on 11 November 1920 and was arranged, for military band, by Frank Winterbottom. As it was, the ceremony at the Cenotaph was curtailed and Elgar’s music never performed. Although he arranged With Proud Thanksgiving for orchestral accompaniment, this is the first time the listener can hear how Elgar originally conceived the piece. Twelve years later Elgar set, for similar forces, a poem by John Masefield, the Poet Laureate, written to commemorate the unveiling of the memorial to the dowager Queen Alexandra who had died in 1925. Unfortunately, the arrangement for military band has been lost and conductor Tom Higgins has made his own arrangement especially for this recording.
Arrangements of Pomp and Circumstance Marches two and five are also included as is the version for military band of Elgar’s Severn Suite from 1930 and his arrangement of two Bach chorales originally performed from the top of the tower of Worcester Cathedral in 1911. Elgar’s contemporaries are represented by Vaughan Williams: his well-known Sea Songs and the complex and challenging Toccata Marziale. The disc is completed by the premiere recording of Sir Thomas Beecham’s March from 1946 and Walton O’Donnell’s charming Three Humoresques from 1923.
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