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Elgar & His Peers / Higgins, London Symphonic Concert Band
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Elgar & His Peers / Higgins, London Symphonic Concert Band

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Details

Composer
ELGAR BEECHAM O'DONNELL
Artist
London Symphonic Concert Band, Higgins
Format
CD
Label
SOMM Recordings
Released
Jul 21, 2017
Catalog #
SOMMCD 0170
UPC
748871017023

About

A unique collection of music arranged or expressly composed by Elgar for Military Band. Featuring music by some of his peers, notably Sir Thomas Beecham and Vaughan Williams, this new release includes two first recordings that are real gems: 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 conducted by Tom Higgins.

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.

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 Military March No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance" (arr. C. Evans) 05:46
    Track
    1
    Title
    Military March No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance" (arr. C. Evans)
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  2. 2 March 04:16
    Track
    2
    Title
    March
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Thomas Beecham
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  3. 3 No. 1. O mensch bewein dein sunde Gross (O man, bemoan thy sins so great) 03:28
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 1. O mensch bewein dein sunde Gross (O man, bemoan thy sins so great)
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  4. 4 No. 2. O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden tab (O sacred head now wounded) 01:30
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 2. O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden tab (O sacred head now wounded)
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  5. 5 With proud thanksgiving (arr. F. Winterbotton for choir and wind ensemble) 08:11
    Track
    5
    Title
    With proud thanksgiving (arr. F. Winterbotton for choir and wind ensemble)
    Duration
    08:11
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  6. 6 No. 1. Pride and Prejudice 03:26
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 1. Pride and Prejudice
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Bertram Walton O'Donnell
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  7. 7 No. 2. Prevarication 03:25
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 2. Prevarication
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Bertram Walton O'Donnell
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  8. 8 No. 3. Petulance and Persuasion 04:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 3. Petulance and Persuasion
    Duration
    04:33
    Composer
    Bertram Walton O'Donnell
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  9. 9 Sea Songs 04:00
    Track
    9
    Title
    Sea Songs
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  10. 10 Toccata marziale 04:48
    Track
    10
    Title
    Toccata marziale
    Duration
    04:48
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  11. 11 I. Worcester Castle 02:21
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Worcester Castle
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  12. 12 II. Tournament 04:10
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Tournament
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  13. 13 III. Cathedral 03:10
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Cathedral
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  14. 14 IV. Commandery 05:46
    Track
    14
    Title
    IV. Commandery
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  15. 15 V. Coda 02:20
    Track
    15
    Title
    V. Coda
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  16. 16 Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode (arr. T. Higgins for wind ensemble) 07:25
    Track
    16
    Title
    Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode (arr. T. Higgins for wind ensemble)
    Duration
    07:25
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins
  17. 17 Military March No. 5, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance" (arr. T. Higgins for wind ensemble) 05:46
    Track
    17
    Title
    Military March No. 5, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance" (arr. T. Higgins for wind ensemble)
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    London Symphonic Concert Band
    Conductor
    Tom Higgins