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Wind Band / Brass Band
Dance Overture for Military Band
Year: 1930
Opus: 12
Duration: 14 minutes
Dedication: "To Edward Clark."
Commission:
Commissioned by the BBC.
Instrumentation:
2 flutes and piccolo, 2 clarinets in Eb, 2 oboes, 3 solo clarinets in Bb, 2 ripieno clarinets in Bb, 2 2nd clarinets in Bb, 2 3rd clarinets in Bb, 1 alto saxophone in Eb, 1 tenor saxophone in Bb, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, solo and 1st cornets in Bb, 1 2nd cornet in Bb, 2 trumpets in Bb, 2 tenor trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 euphonium, 2 basses, 1 string bass, timpani and percussion (2 players)
Manuscript:
British Library, London. MS. Mus. 327, ff.64: Full score in ink.
First Performance:
BBC Wireless Military Band, conducted by B. Walton O’Donnell. Broadcasting House, London, 25 April 1931.
Recording:
Prologue to a Workers' Meeting for Brass Orchestra
Year: 1935
Opus: 16
Duration: 7.5 minutes
Notes:
Written for The International Music Bureau, Moscow.
This piece was later re-written as the 'Resolution' - Overture for Orchestra, Opus 25 in 1943.
Russian Glory for Military Band - Military March on Soviet Songs
Year: 1942
Opus: 20
Duration: 6 minutes
Dedication: "Dedicated to the soldiers of the Red Army, and with grateful acknowledgement to my good friend, Corporal Sydney Latuski and Private Albert Harris of the British Forces, whose thorough knowledge of the Military March has been of great help to me in working this out."
Commission:
Commissioned by the BBC.
Instrumentation:
2 flutes and piccolo, 2 clarinets in Eb, 2 oboes, 3 solo clarinets in Bb, 2 ripieno clarinets in Bb, 2 2nd clarinets in Bb, 23rd clarinets in Bb, 1 alto saxophone in Eb, 1 tenor saxophone in Bb, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, solo and 1st cornets in Bb, 1 2nd cornet in Bb flat, 2 trumpets in Bb, 2 tenor trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 euphonium, 2 basses, 1 string bass, timpani and percussion (2 players)
First Performance:
Recorded by the BBC Military Band on 15 March 1943 (recording No. 11615/6).
Notes:
Based on Song of the Fatherland (Isaac Dunayevsky) and from the Trio from Song of Stalin (Aram Khachaturian).
Fantasia on Soviet Themes for Military Band
Year: 1942
Duration: 10 minutes
Dedication: "Dedicated in affectionate homage to Madame Agnes Maisky, for so long the gracious representative of the Soviet People, as a humble tribute to whom this work is designed."
Commission:
Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Military Band.
Instrumentation:
2 flutes and piccolo, 2 clarinets in Eb, 2 oboes, 3 solo clarinets in Bb, 2 ripieno clarinets in Bb, 2 2nd clarinets in Bb, 2 3rd clarinets in Bb, 1 alto saxophone in Eb, 1 tenor saxophone in Bb, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, solo and 1st cornet in Bb, 1 2nd cornet in Bb, 2 trumpets in Bb, 2 tenor trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 euphonium, 2 basses, 1 string bass, timpani and percussion (2 players)
First Performance:
Recorded by the BBC Military Band on 15 March 1943 (recording No. 11610/2).
Notes:
1. Partisan Song: a revolutionary folk-song of the Wars of 1919-21
2. Collective Farm Song of 1931-35
3. Cheerful Song for Solo and Chorus by Zacherov
4. Death of Chapayev: funeral march for a partisan leader
5. Molodezhnaya (Song of Youth for Childrens’ Choir by Isaak Dunayevsky)
6. Finale
The Cutty Wren arranged for Brass Band
Year: 1945-1946
Manuscript:
Copy of full score in Histon Archive.
Pavane for the Castleton Queen for Brass Band
Year: 1953
Opus: 43
Duration: 3.5 minutes
Instrumentation:
1 solo cornet in Bb, 1 soprano cornet in Eb, 1 ripieno cornet in Bb and 1 flute, 1 2nd cornet in Bb, 1 3rd cornet in Bb, solo 1st and 2nd horn in Eb, 1st baritone in Bb, 2nd baritone in Bb, 1st and 2nd trombone in Bb, bass trombone, euphonium in Bb, bass in Eb, drums
Manuscript:
Copy of full score in Histon Archive. Sketches in British Library Deposit 2005/32.
First Performance:
The Castleton Brass Band. Conductor: Alan Bush, Castleton, Derbyshire, 1953.

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