SKU: AP.12-0571571166
ISBN 9780571571161. English.
One of Howard Goodall's most popular choral settings, Love Divine has been skillfully arranged for wind band by Alastair Wheeler, with the approval of the composer. This version is based on the setting with piano and strings and can be performed as a self-standing concert work or as an accompaniment for performance by a large choir.
SKU: AP.12-0571572472
ISBN 9780571572472. English.
This colorful, jazzy suite draws inspiration from the ancient art of gazing into smoke from fire to find stories through the act of divination. Into the Blaze suggests someone briskly fire-walking, barefoot, with unexpected sparks fizzling from the ground. A Lonesome Ember captures the fleeting life of a small ember, beginning insignificantly and gradually evolving into a larger being before disappearing into ash, while Spark of Light bristles with life and energy. (8:00).
SKU: AP.12-0571571824
ISBN 9780571571826. English.
Firefly was composed by award-winning composer Simon Dobson (b.1981) to provide an entertaining uptempo concert work for community and youth bands. This arrangement for concert band, composed in funk-rock style, and is based on the groove beat with which it opens. Dobson says, Firefly was written as a break from my more serious music and as a hat tip to the various types of beat-orientated music I listen to. It was first performed by Oslofjord Brass in Norway and in its wind version by Harmonie Shostakovich, Switzerland.
SKU: AP.12-0571571395
ISBN 9780571571390. English.
March Barnes Wallis was commissioned by Royal Air Force Music Services to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the famous Dambuster's raid. It received its first performance on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night, broadcast live from Biggin Hill Airport on June 17, 2013 by the Central Band of the RAF, Director of Music Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs.
SKU: AP.12-0571572081
ISBN 9780571572083. English.
King Arthur was the first of 28 scores Benjamin Britten composed for radio between 1937 and 1947. It was an ambitious dramatization of King Arthur's life and times; part pageant, part play, part cantata; written by D.G. Bridson. This colorful suite incorporates the Introduction, a dramatic Wild Dance, some of the music underscoring the scenes for Galahad and The Holy Grail, and two vivid battle scenes, ending with The Final Battle and Apotheosis. King Arthur (scenes from a radio drama) for brass band should not be confused with a much longer orchestral suite, which Paul Hindmarsh devised from the same source in 1995.
SKU: AP.12-0571500374
ISBN 9780571500376. English.
SKU: AP.12-0571572162
ISBN 9780571572168. English.
Carl Vine's Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind---the others being his first two piano sonatas. Vine describes it as a conscious and continuous tribute to the piano concerto as a medium and historical entity, a fact most apparent in the slow movement, with its long melodic lines evoking both Ravel and Bach. This 25-minute concerto is cast in the familiar three-movement form, with fast outer movements framing a central slow movement. The outer movements share some material (particularly in some lively conversational interchanges between piano and trumpet), and also some typically pianistic glitter across the orchestra, with harp and glockenspiel ensuring that the piano is less of an outsider than might have otherwise been the case.
SKU: AP.12-0571508219
ISBN 9780571508211. English.
SKU: AP.12-0571572537
ISBN 9780571572533. English.
Highlights from Bugsy Malone presents four irresistible songs from the favorite children's musical, arranged by Rob Wiffin for grade 3-level symphonic wind band. Perfect for school and amateur bands, songs include So You Wanna Be a Boxer, Tomorrow, My Name Is Tallullah, and You Give a Little Love.
SKU: AP.12-0571540155
ISBN 9780571540150. English.
An intense reflection on romantic passion and loss, Anders Hillborg's Lontana in Sonno for voice (mezzo-soprano/soprano) and orchestra sets sonnets by Petrarch. Originally written for Anne Sofie von Otter, this 15-minute work unfolds slowly, the voice floating over a gleaming, unearthly soundscape lit from within by glass harmonica.
SKU: AP.12-0571539440
ISBN 9780571539444. English.
Colin Matthews's Turning Point (2006) represents a bold stylistic breakthrough for its composer. Out of a whirring, motoric scherzo comes a jolting sea change: an austere, glacial string chorale of searing intensity that, with gritty resilience, gradually comes to overwhelm everything else. Commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, this 25-minute journey from complex momentum to expressive simplicity displays all the ingenious craft we have come to expect from Matthews, together with a new-found emotional directness.
SKU: AP.12-0571565506
ISBN 9780571565504. English.
SKU: AP.12-0571572456
ISBN 9780571572458. English.
Battles was written for the restoration of the epic 1927 silent film The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, and was commissioned by the British Film Institute (BFI) in 2013. The work presents eight contrasting scenes as a continuous sequence: War, Introduction of Admiral von Spee, German Banquet, Building Steam/Preparing, Islanders, Call to Arms, Great Battle at Sea, and Victory. The original score was written for a small chamber orchestra, symphonic brass, and a substantial battery of tuned and untuned percussion. Battles has been edited for symphonic wind orchestra with percussion and harp.
