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Malcolm Arnold Variations€ 129,05MALCOLM ARNOLD VARIATIONS was commissioned by Philip Biggs and Richard Franklin for the 20th All England Masters International Brass Band Championship held in the Corn Exchange, Cambridge on 25 May 2008.
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Masquerade€ 114,66Philip Wilby:
Masquerade is a centenary tribute to Verdi’s last opera Falstaff and takes its final scene as the basis for my own piece. Thus I have used some of Verdi’s music, and some of Shakespeare’s plot, and woven them into a fabric with highly demanding music of my own to produce a work in the great tradition of operatically-based brass band pieces. -
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Narnia Suite€ 106,17Narnia Suite is made from the incidental music written by Geoffrey Burgon for the BBC Television series The Chronicles of Narnia, based upon C.S. Lewis's series of seven novels, the first and most well-known being The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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Of Distant Memories€ 114,66(Music in an Olden Style)
Of Distant Memories pays homage to the brass band composers that form the backbone of the brass band repertoire and their music, and in the process summons up a kind of subconscious memory bank of the musical languages, styles and forms used by them. -
Partita€ 114,66Partita was written in 1989 to a commission from Eikanger/Bjørsvik Musikklag (Norway) who were European Champions at the time.