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1  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Mussorgsky but not Ravel on: January 22, 2018, 05:31:09 pm
There are also brass only versions (for both orchestral brass ensemble and brass band) by Elgar Howarth. Commercial recordings of both exist, the brass band one by the then Britannia Building Society Band (previously and now again known as Fodens) and the brass ensemble version by numerous groups starting with PJBE, for whom it was first arranged.
2  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Miklós Rózsa - King of Kings re-recording Kickstarter on: January 22, 2018, 05:19:56 pm
I'll certainly buy this, and I find the model fascinating. About 12 years ago the record label Campion Cameo (don't know if they still exist) did an early version of 'crowdfunding' to produce an album of string trios by living British composers -  obviously a far lower cost base than any given Rosza film score, but the model can clearly work for things that record companies are nervous about funding. Look forward to the recording being available.
3  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Alun Hoddinott Symphonies on Lyrita ?? on: January 22, 2018, 05:11:39 pm

No.8 for brass and percussion, op. 142 (1989)...broadcast in 1992 with the National Youth Brass Band of Wales conducted either by Edward Gregson or Ray Farr (there seems
            a dispute amongst the sources about who the conductor was for the premiere)


Apologies for the thread necromancy in my first post, but I can add some vaguely pertinent details. I can confirm beyond doubt that it was Edward Gregson, founding musical director of the NYBBW who conducted this performance to mark the ensemble's 10th anniversary in 1992. I know this because I was in the band!

It's a fascinating work, and I was lucky enough to have access to the score when I included a brief analysis of it in my undergraduate dissertation. My god it was hard, though - AH certainly didn't "write down to a standard", given that it was an (albeit rather fine) amateur youth band. I've spoken to Edward Gregson about it since and he remembers having sleepless nights over whether we were ever going to master it.

Hoddinott has been rather disgracefully treated by posterity, in my view, and his work is well overdue for extensive critical re-evaluation and rediscovery. Were I in the market for a PhD thesis topic... Certainly his brass band music (almost all written for the NYBBW) has been shamefully neglected by the top few Welsh bands who would have both the skills and the platform to perform it. I'm interested if anyone knows if the Symphony No. 8 was ever published - it was in MS at the premiere and I'm not aware of a subsequent performance, so I suspect not given the limited market for it.
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