Elgar and his Peers: The Art of the Military Band

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The music is well performed by the London Symphonic Concert Band. The performances have been well recorded by engineer Ben Connellan and producer Siva Oke. — MusicWeb International, July 2017

Release Date: 30th Jun 2017
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0170
Label: Somm
Length: 74 minutes

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Excerpt, Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos. 1-5, Op. 39

Work length5:46

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

No. 2, March in A Minor (Arr. C. Evans)

Track length5:46

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Beecham: March

Work length4:16

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

Elgar: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß (After J.S. Bach's BWV 244)

Work length3:28

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

Elgar: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden tab (After J.S. Bach's BWV 244)

Work length1:30

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

Elgar: With Proud Thanksgiving (Arr. F. Winterbotton for Choir & Wind Ensemble)

Work length8:11

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Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

Walton O'Donnell: 3 Humoresques, Op. 28

Work length11:24

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

No. 1, Pride and Prejudice

Track length3:26

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No. 2, Prevarication

Track length3:25

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No. 3, Petulance and Persuasion

Track length4:33

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Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs

Work length4:00

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

Vaughan Williams: Toccata Marziale

Work length4:48

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

Elgar: Severn Suite, Op. 87

Work length17:47

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

I. Introduction. Pomposo "Worcester Castle"

Track length2:21

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II. Toccata. Allegro molto "Tournament"

Track length4:10

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III. Fugue. Andante "The Cathedral"

Track length3:10

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IV. Minuet. Moderato "Commandery"

Track length5:46

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V. Coda. Lento - Pomposo

Track length2:20

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Elgar: So Many True Princesses Who Have Gone "Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode" (Arr. T. Higgins for Wind Ensemble)

Work length7:25

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Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

Excerpt, Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos. 1-5, Op. 39

Work length5:46

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London Symphonic Concert Band
Tom Higgins

No. 5, March in C Major (Arr. T. Higgins for Wind Ensemble)

Track length5:46

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With the encouragement and support of the Elgar Society, Somm are pleased to announce the release of a recording devoted to music arranged or expressly composed by Elgar for Military Band. In addition, music by some of his contemporaries makes the CD an original and important addition to the catalogue. First recordings of Elgar's- With Proud Thanksgiving from 1920 and The Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode from 1932 with the London Symphonic Concert Band and the Joyful Company of Singers, are real gems. 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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July 2017

The music is well performed by the London Symphonic Concert Band. The performances have been well recorded by engineer Ben Connellan and producer Siva Oke.

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