Strike Up the Band

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Tracklist

1▶CD: Bandstand Showcase
2▶CD: The World's Greatest Marches
3▶CD: The Bands Play Golden Opera Favourites
4▶CD: Relaxing Melodies
5▶CD: Pride and Splendour
6▼CD: The Bands Play the Favourite Light Classics
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1The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
performer:
Black Dyke Band
arranger:
George Hawkins
recording of:
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Ouvertüre
composer:
Otto Nicolai (composer and conductor)
librettist:
Salomon Hermann Mosenthal
part of:
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Otto Nicolai8:43
2Procession of the Sirdar
performer:
Cory Band (brass band)
arranger:
Philip Sparke (British composer and musician)
recording of:
Caucasian Sketches Suite no. 1, op. 10: IV. Procession of the Sardar
composer:
Михаил Ипполитов‐Иванов (Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor, teacher) (in 1894)
part of:
Caucasian Sketches Suite no. 1, op. 10
Ippolitov Ivanovov5:00
3La Danza
performer:
Black Dyke Band and Gordon Langford (English composer, arranger and pianist)
instrumental recording of:
Soirées musicales: No. 8. La danza “Già la luna è in mezzo al mare”
lyricist:
Carlo Pepoli (Italian librettist, 19th c.)
composer:
Gioachino Rossini (composer)
part of:
Soirées musicales
Gioachino Rossini2:14
4Finlandia
performer:
Massed Bands of the Royal Marines
recording of:
Finlandia, op. 26 (for orchestra)
premiered in:
Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland (on 1900-07-02)
composer:
Jean Sibelius (Finnish composer) (in 1899)
revised by:
Jean Sibelius (Finnish composer) (in 1900)
premiered at:
Konsertti (1900-07-02)
publisher:
Breitkopf & Härtel (in 1905)
part of:
Works of Jean Sibelius by opus number (number: op. 26)
version of:
Sanomalehdistön päivien musiikki, op. 25/26: VII. Tableau 6. Finland Awakes
Jean Sibelius9:38
5Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
performer:
Central Band of the Royal Air Force
arranger:
Gordon Langford (English composer, arranger and pianist)
instrumental recording of:
Kantate, BWV 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”: Teil II, X. Choral “Jesus bleibet meine Freude” (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; catch‐all for arrangements and unknown orchestrations)
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach (German Baroque period composer & musician)
arrangement of:
Kantate, BWV 147 „Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben“: Teil II, X. Choral „Jesus bleibet meine Freude“ (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring)
Johann Sebastian Bach3:23
6Borodin's Nocturne
performer:
Black Dyke Band
arranger:
Gordon Langford (English composer, arranger and pianist)
recording of:
String Quartet no. 2 in D major: III. Notturno (catch-all for arrangements)
composer:
Александр Порфирьевич Бородин (Alexander Borodin, Russian composer)
arrangement of:
String Quartet no. 2 in D major: III. Notturno. Andante
Alexander Borodin6:46
7The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
performer:
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
arranger:
Glyn Bragg (UK brass band music arranger)
cover recording of:
The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
composer:
Hamish MacCunn (in 1887)
Hamish MacCunn8:54
8Elizabethan Serenade
performer:
Central Band of the Royal Air Force
recording of:
Elizabethan Serenade
composer:
Ronald Binge (British composer and arranger of light music) (until 1951)
Ronald Binge3:10
9Nun's Chorus
brass:
Besses o’ th’ Barn Band
conductor:
Alec Evans (conductor)
performer:
Besses o’ th’ Barn Band
arranger:
Gordon Langford (English composer, arranger and pianist)
instrumental recording of:
Casanova: Nuns’ Chorus & Laura’s Song
additional composer:
Ralph Benatzky
composer:
Johann Strauss (Johann Strauss II, Austro-German composer, „Walzerkönig“, Johann Strauss II, Sohn, Jr., the Younger, the Son)
librettist:
Rudolf Schanzer (Austrian librettist) and Ernst Welisch
part of:
Casanova
Johann Strauss II, Ralph Benatzky3:42
10España
performer:
Coventry City Band
recording of:
España (for brass band, Langford)
composer:
Emmanuel Chabrier (composer) (in 1883)
arranger:
Gordon Langford (English composer, arranger and pianist)
arrangement of:
España (rhapsody for orchestra)
Emmanuel Chabrier5:28
11Perpetuum Mobile
performer:
Desford Colliery Band (British brass band)
recording of:
Perpetuum mobile (for brass band, Snell)
composer:
Johann Strauss (Johann Strauss II, Austro-German composer, „Walzerkönig“, Johann Strauss II, Sohn, Jr., the Younger, the Son)
arranger:
Howard Snell (trumpeter, arranger, bandleader, conductor, composer, teacher)
arrangement of:
Perpetuum mobile, op. 257
Johann Strauss II2:59
12William Tell Overture - Finale
orchestra:
Men O’Brass
arranger:
Frank Seymour (UK brass band music arranger)
recording of:
William Tell Overture: Finale, March of the Swiss Soldiers (allegro vivace) (Lone Ranger theme)
composer:
Gioachino Rossini (composer)
part of:
Guillaume Tell : Ouverture (William Tell: Overture)
Gioachino Rossini3:23
13March From Things to Come
performer:
Central Band of the Royal Air Force
recording of:
Things to Come, March
composer:
Sir Arthur Bliss (composer)
part of:
Things to Come
Sir Arthur Bliss4:02
141812 Overture: Finale
performer:
Massed Bands of the Household Division
arranger:
Peter Hannam
partial recording of:
The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E-flat major, op. 49
premiered in:
Moscow, Russia (on 1882-08-20)
composer:
Пётр Ильич Чайковский (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian romantic composer) (from 1880-09 until 1880-11)
part of:
The Tchaikovsky Handbook (number: TH 49), Thematic and Bibliographical Catalogue of P. I. Čajkovskij's Works (number: ČW 46) and Works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by opus number (number: op. 49)
is based on:
Боже, Царя храни! (God Save the Tsar!)
quotes music from:
Troparion of the Holy Cross
quotes music from:
La Marseillaise (national anthem of France)
quotes music from:
Боже, Царя храни! (God Save the Tsar!)
Tchaikovsky, arr. Hannam4:04