Vaughan Williams On Brass

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The biggest test for the Tredegar Town Band on this Vaughan Williams recital is the Variations for Brass Band, a technically demanding piece written for the National Brass Band Championships... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Aug 2022
Catalogue No: ALBCD052
Label: Albion Records
Series: Vaughan Williams 150
Length: 79 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Flourish for Brass Band

Work length1:56

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Arr. P. Littlemore for Brass Band
Tredegar Town Band
Ian Porthouse

Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite

Work length10:14

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Arr. P. Littlemore for Brass Band
Tredegar Town Band
Ian Porthouse

I. March. Seventeen Come Sunday

Track length3:23

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II. Intermezzo. My Bonny Boy

Track length3:05

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III. March. Folk Songs from Somerset

Track length3:46

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Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs

Work length4:05

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Arr. P. Littlemore for Brass Band
Tredegar Town Band
Ian Porthouse

Vaughan Williams: Henry V

Work length8:37

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Tredegar Town Band
Ian Porthouse

Vaughan Williams: The truth sent from above

Work length4:33

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Arr. P. Hindmarsh for Brass Band
Tredegar Town Band
Martyn Brabbins

Vaughan Williams: Prelude on 'Rhosymedre'

Work length3:50

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Arr. P. Hindmarsh for Brass Band
Tredegar Town Band
Martyn Brabbins

Vaughan Williams: 49th Parallel

Work length14:04

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Arr. P. Littlemore & P. Hindmarsh for Brass Band
Tredegar Town Band
Ian Porthouse

Vaughan Williams: Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes (Ebenezer, Calfaria & Hyfrydol), for brass ensemble

Work length7:11

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Tredegar Town Band
Ian Porthouse

Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto in F minor

Work length13:03

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Arr. P. Littlemore for Brass Band
Ross Knight (tuba)
Tredegar Town Band
Ian Porthouse

I. Prelude. Allegro moderato

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II. Romanza. Andante sostenuto

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III. Finale - Rondo alla Tedesca. Allegro

Track length3:17

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Vaughan Williams: Variations for Brass Band

Work length11:48

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Tredegar Town Band
Martyn Brabbins

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In 2022 we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vaughan Williams, and there is no better way to do so than with this album of brass band music. The album includes the composer's three pieces for brass band - Henry the Fifth Overture, Prelude on Three Welsh Hymns and Variations for Brass Band. In addition we hear the brass band version of the Tuba Concerto and many new arrangements of popular pieces by Paul Hindmarsh (who curated and produced the album) and Phillip Littlemore.

The award-winning Tredegar Town Band is conducted by their Musical Director Ian Porthouse and special guest conductor Martyn Brabbins. The recording was made in Brangwyn Hall, Swansea and engineered by Steve Portnoi.

Ian Porthouse took up the baton with Tredegar Town Band in 2008 and has led the band to the National Finals every year since. He is currently Director of Brass Band Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire and is in high demand as a professional conductor, tutor and adjudicator.

Martyn Brabbins, now well known as a conductor, began his musical career playing the euphonium and trumpet; his many recordings include the complete cycle of nine symphonies by Vaughan Williams (for Hyperion) and Albion's Grammy nominated album Discoveries.

Ross Knight is the Solo Tuba player of l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and, since September 2022, the Professor of Tuba at the Haute cole de Musique de Genve.

The origins of Tredegar Town Band date back to 1849, and the band was formally constituted in 1876. Over the last 40 years they have become one of the world's elite brass band performers, claiming the British Open title in 2010 and again in 2013. In 2022 they came 4th at the European Championships in Birmingham.

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October 2022

The biggest test for the Tredegar Town Band on this Vaughan Williams recital is the Variations for Brass Band, a technically demanding piece written for the National Brass Band Championships in 1957. Under the taut direction of guest conductor Martyn Brabbins, the players respond vividly to both the extroverted and more subdued variations, managing the multiple shifts of tone and instrumentation with impressive assurance.

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