Elgar & His Peers / Higgins, London Symphonic Concert Band

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
July 21, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ELGAR BEECHAM O'DONNELL
    • PERFORMER
      London Symphonic Concert Band, Higgins
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 21, 2017
    • UPC
      748871017023
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0170
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Military March No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance" (arr. C. Evans)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    2. March

      Composer: Thomas Beecham

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    3. No. 1. O mensch bewein dein sunde Gross (O man, bemoan thy sins so great)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    4. No. 2. O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden tab (O sacred head now wounded)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    5. With proud thanksgiving (arr. F. Winterbotton for choir and wind ensemble)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    6. No. 1. Pride and Prejudice

      Composer: Bertram Walton O'Donnell

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    7. No. 2. Prevarication

      Composer: Bertram Walton O'Donnell

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    8. No. 3. Petulance and Persuasion

      Composer: Bertram Walton O'Donnell

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    9. Sea Songs

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    10. Toccata marziale

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    11. I. Worcester Castle

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    12. II. Tournament

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    13. III. Cathedral

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    14. IV. Commandery

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    15. V. Coda

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    16. Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode (arr. T. Higgins for wind ensemble)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins

    17. Military March No. 5, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance" (arr. T. Higgins for wind ensemble)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphonic Concert Band

      Conductor: Tom Higgins


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.