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PROGRAMME NOTES 1981-2006

25 years of Programmes, volume 1

ALWYN - HARPER

HEALEY - WOOLFENDEN

Below I list works which I have programmed or conducted, with references to Program Notes for Band by Norman Smith for biography and programme notes where available, and a link to programme notes, often by the composer. Apologies to anyone whose copyrights I have unwittingly infringed.

INDEX: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X Y Z

COMPOSER

DATES

WORK

PUBLISHER

SMITH PAGE

William Alwyn

1905-1985

Flute Concerto

Legnick

 

Malcolm Arnold

b.1921

Water Music

Novello

Michael Ball

b.1946

Omaggio

Novello

32

 

 

Saxophone Concerto

Maecenas

32

Irwin Bazelon

1922-95

Midnight Music

Novello

 

David Bedford

 b.1937

Ronde for Isolde

Novello

44

 

Sea & Sky & Golden Hill

 

 

 

Sun Paints Rainbows

Novello

44

 

Praeludium

Novello

Richard Rodney Bennett

b.1936

Morning Music

Novello

52

 

Four Seasons

Novello

 

 

Trumpet Concerto

Novello

 

 

Reflections on a 16th Century Tune for wind decet

Novello

Niels Vigo Bentzon

b.1919

Concerto for Percussion

Hansen

Michael Berkeley

b.1948

Shooting Stars

OUP

 

 

Slow Dawn

OUP

Judith Bingham

b.1952

Bright Spirit

Maecenas

 

 

Three American Icons

Maecenas

Laurence  Bitensky

Awake, You Sleepers

Ms

Boris Blacher

1903-1975

Divertimento

B&H

Derek Bourgeois

b.1941

Diversions

Vanderbeek

79

 

Serenade

G Brand

80

 

Sinfonietta

G Brand

80

 

Symphony for William

HaFaBra

 

 

Symphony of Winds

HaFaBra

John Buckley

b.1951

Where the Wind Blows

ms

Martin Butler

b.1960

Still Breathing

OUP

Arthur Butterworth

b.1923

Borean Suite – Tundra

Vanderbeek

Eugene Bozza

1905-1991

Children’s Overture

Peters

Frank Bridge

1879-1941

Pageant of London

Con Brio

Fergal Carroll

b.1969

Song of Lir

Maecenas

John Casken

b.1949

Distant Variations

Schott

Nigel Clarke

b. 1960

Samurai

Maecenas

129

Michael Colgrass

b.1932

Dream Dancer

Carl Fischer

Bill Connor

b.1949

Tails aus dem Voods Viennoise

Maecenas

Gordon Crosse

b.1937

Ariadne

OUP

 

 

Quiet

OUP

Martin Dalby

b.1942

A Plain Man’s Hammer

Novello

 

 

Flight Dreaming

Novello

Stephen Dodgson

b.1924

Capriccio Concertante

Wicks

Giles Easterbrook

b.1949

Partial Eclipse

ms

Martin Ellerby

b.1957

New World Dances

Studio

 

 

Paris Sketches

Maecenas

191

 

Venetian Spells

Studio

David Ellis

b.1933

Fantasia

Ms

Elena Firsova

b.1950

Captivity

Ms

Peter Racine Fricker

1920-1990

Sinfonia; In memoriam Benjamin Britten

Maecenas

John Gardner

b.1917

English Dance Suite

OUP

Anthony Gilbert

b.1934

Dream Carousels

Schott