[ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 11 May 2018
Should this item be out of stock at the time of your order, we would expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 5 business days.
Among all the many Chandos brass recordings, each release having played a major role in the label's successful history, this one may well be the loudest.
In the vast acoustic of St Jude's Church, London, rendered in surround-sound, and in the largest ensemble format to which it has ever expanded, Onyx Brass, under the energetic direction of John Wilson, brings together four dozen fanfares by fourteen British composers of the past century and a half.
Including works by Arnold, Bax, Bliss, Imogen Holst Ketèlbey, and Tippett - with numerous premiere recordings, this album is an unmissable celebration of stirring, brilliant, joyous, exciting, varied, sometimes military, and always optimistic music.
Orchestra: Onyx Brass
Niall Keatley trumpet
Alan Thomas trumpet
Andrew Sutton horn
Amos Miller trombone
David Gordon-Shute tuba
Nina Robertson flute
John Thurgood • Corinne Bailey • Peter Blake • Phil Woods horns
Toby Street • Robin Totterdell • Tony Cross • Darren Moore trumpets
Richard Watkin • Johnny Hollick • Rupert Whitehead • Paul Lambert • Barry Clements trombones
Scott Bywater timpani
Tom Edwards • Matt Dickinson percussion *
Conductor: John Wilson
* tubular bells, suspended hand bells, side drum, glockenspiel, cymbals, bass drum
HERBERT HOWELLS
1. Fanfare for Schools (1943)
for three trumpets, four horns, three trombones, tuba, snare drum, and timpani
Allegro vivo
SIR MALCOLM ARNOLD
2. Festival Fanfare (1961)
for five horns, six trumpets, five trombones, tuba, cymbal and timpani
Moderato e maestoso
3. Kingston (1959)
Fanfare
for three trumpets and three trombones
Maestoso
4. A Richmond Fanfare (1957) *
for three trumpets and three trombones
Moderato e maestoso - Più mosso
5. Railway Fanfare (1975)
for three trumpets and three trombones
Allegro energico
6. Fanfare for a Royal Occasion (1956) *
for three trumpets and three trombones
Allegro brillante
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Eight Fanfares
7. Fanfare to Precede the National Anthem (1960)
in G major • in G-Dur • en sol majeur
for three trumpets and three trombones
Andante moderato
8. National Anthem
for three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, and timpani
9.The Right of the Line (1965)
Fanfare
for four tumpets, three trombones, timpani, side drum and cymbal
For the 250th Anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Artillery
Lively and brilliant
10.Fanfare for the Princess Anne (1973)
for three trumpets and side drum
crotchet = c. 108
11.High Sheriff's Fanfare (1963)
for Colonel Longfield
for two trumpets
Brillantly
12. A Salute to Painting (1954)
Fanfare
for four trumpets, three trombones, and timpani
For Sir Gerald Kelly, on the occasion of the Royal Academy dinner, 28 April 1954
Poco maestoso - Pochissimo mosso - Tempo I
13. Research Fanfare (1973)
for The National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases
for four trumpets and four trombones
Allegro
14. Peace Fanfare (1944)
for Children
for three trumpets, three trombones, timpani and bells
Gaily and lightly - Largamente
15.Let the People Sing (1960)
Fanfare
for three trumpets, three trombones and cymbal
Lively
16.Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion (1938) *
from Six Billiant Fanfares
for four trumpets and three trombones
Allegro moderato e brillante
17.Fanfare for Heroes (1930) *
for three trumpets, three trombones, timpani and cymbals
Written in aid of the Musicians' Benevolent Fund 1930
Allegro brillante
18. Homage to Shakespeare (1973) *
Fanfare
for five trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and cymbals
Founded on a phrase of the composer of madrigal, John Wilbye (1574-1638)
Maestoso sostenuto
19. Fanfare (1944) *
in honour of Sir Henry Wood's 75th birthday
for three trumpets, three trombones and timpani
Allegro moderato - Largamente - A tempo
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
20. Fanfare No.3 (1953)
for three trumpets
Allegro moderato - Slower - [Tempo I]
21. The Wolf Trap Fanfare (1980)
Fanfare No.4
for three trumpets, two trombones and tuba
Medium fast
SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK
22. Fanfare (1921)
for four trumpets
Marziale
ERIC COATES
Two Fanfares (c.1943) *
for three trumpets, four horns, three trombones, snare drum and cymbals
23.1 Allegro
24. 2 Allegro
HAYDN WOOD
25.Fanfare No.3 (1938) *
from Six Brilliant Fanfares
for five trumpets and three trombones
Allegro moderato maestoso
Six Fanfares (1945)
for three trumpets, three trombones and timpani
Manuscrips transcribed by M. Roberts
26.1 Con spirito
27. 2 Moderato
28.3 Moderato
29.4 Moderato
30.5 Moderato
31.6 Con spirito e ritmico
IMOGEN HOLST
32. Fanfare for Thaxted (1966)
for flute, two trumpets and bells
Fairely slow - Freely (senza misura) - In time - Freely - In time
33. Fanfare for the Grenadier Guards (1966)
for three trumpets, horn, and two trombones
Quick - Slow, senza misrua - A tempo (quick, as before)
Leiston Suite (1967)
for two trumpets, trombone and tuba
34. I Entry Music. Brilliant and energetic
35. II Jig. Quick and light
36. III Interlude. Cheerful and energetic
37. I VSlow Air. Very slow and expressive
38.VMarch, to the tune of Kettle-Drum. Cheerful and energetic
ALBERT WILLIAM KETELBEY
39. Coronation Fanfare (1937/1952)
for six trumpets, two horns, one trombone, side drum, bells and cymbals
Allegro vivace - Grandioso
40. Fanfare No.1 for a Naval Occasion (1943)
Specially suitable for Trafalgar Day
for four trumpets, three trombones (two horns, two bugles ad libitum), side drum and cymbals
Steady tempo
41. Fanfare No.2 for a Naval Occasion (1943)
for three trumpets, three trombones, timpani and side drum
Marziale
42. Fanfare for Victory (1944)
for six trumpets, four trombones, timpani, side drum, bells, glockenspiel and cymbals
Allegro spiritoso
43. Fanfare for the Royal Artillery (1944)
for four trumpets, four trombones, snare drum, cymbals and bass drum
Reconstructed by Simon Nathan
Steady tempo
44. Short Fanfare for the Air Force (published 1953)
(Short Air Fanfare)
for four trumpets, one trombone, cymbals and side drum
Moderato vigoroso (quasi marcia)
45. Fanfare for a Ceremonial Occasion (1935)
for four trumpets, three trombones, side drum and timpani
Spiritoso
SIR HAMILTON HARTY
46. Fanfare (1921)
for four trumpets and side drum
Allegro
FREDERIC CURZON
47. Fanfare No.5 (1938)
for a Merry Occasion
from Six Brilliant Fanfares
for three trumpets and three trombones
Scherzando
48. Fanfare No.6 (1938)
'Westminster'
from Six Brilliant Fanfares
for three trumpets and three trombones
Pesante
49. Fanfare No.4 (1938)
from Six Brilliant Fanfares
for three trumpets and three trombones
Moderato maestoso
ELISABETH LUTYENS
50. Fanfare for a Festival (1975)
for three trumpets and three trombones
Quaver = c.60
SIR ARNOLD BAX
51. Hosting at Dawn (1921)
Fanfare
for four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and cymbals
Arranged by Graham Parlett
[Moderato] - [Allargando]
52. Fanfare for a Cheerful Occasion (1930) *
for four trumpets, four trombones, timpani and cymbals
Allegretto giocoso - Poco più largamente - A tempo - Largamente
Two Fanfares for 'Show Business' (1951)
for three trumpets, three trombones and side drum
53. 1 Moderato - Allargando
54. II Con brio
Royal Wedding Fanfares (1947) *
for four trumpets, three trombones, side drum and cymbal
55.1 Con brio
56.2 Moderato - [Meno mosso] - Vivace - [Largamente]
57. Salute to Sydney (1943)
for four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, side drum, bass drum and cymbals
Allegro maestoso - Poco più largamente - Tempo I
JOSEPH HOROVITZ
58.Graduation Fanfare No.2 (2013)
for four trumpets, three horns, four trombones and tuba
Allegro