Anglo Music Midway Series

A Bandsman's Overture was commissioned by British Bandsman magazine to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2012. It was premiered by Black Dyke Band, conducted by Dr Nicholas Childs, at a special anniv...

Fanfare for an Occasion was written to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Anglo Music Press, the publishing company dedicated to the works of British composer, Philip Sparke. It is a br...

Fanfare for an Occasion was written to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Anglo Music Press, the publishing company dedicated to the works of British composer, Philip Sparke. It is a br...

Per molti cinefili Il Padrino (1972) di Francis Ford Coppola è ancora oggi una vera pietra miliare del genere, anche per il tema affrontato. La colonna sonora firmata Nino Rota è divenuta famosa anche...

Per molti cinefili Il Padrino (1972) di Francis Ford Coppola è ancora oggi una vera pietra miliare del genere, anche per il tema affrontato. La colonna sonora firmata Nino Rota è divenuta famosa anche...

The Greatest Showman è chiaramente uno dei film musicali più popolari degli ultimi anni. La fantastica interpretazione di Hugh Jackman nel ruolo di protagonista e la musica toccante hanno reso questo...

The Greatest Showman is definitely one of the most popular movie musicals of recent years. The film's stunning lead performance by Hugh Jackman and its touching score have made this picture an instant...

Ukrainian Bell Carol costituisce una delle parti dell'opera corale Shchedryk del compositore ucraino Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovich (1877-1921). Il testo narra una leggenda secondo la quale le campane d...

Ukrainian Bell Carol costituisce una delle parti dell'opera corale Shchedryk del compositore ucraino Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovich (1877-1921). Il testo narra una leggenda secondo la quale le campane d...

The Irish folk tune, which appears towards the end of the piece, is Slane, a hymn tune version of the much older folk melody The Banks of the Bann. In Prelude on an Irish Folk Tune, fragments of the f...

Figli gemelli di Marion Ryan, celebre cantante pop degli anni '50, Paul e Barry Ryan si esibivano insieme già prima di aver compiuto quindici anni.Nel 1965 firmano un contratto con la casa discografic...

Il 24 luglio 2005 si sono sposati Sheona White e Stuart Lingard, rispettivamente alto solista e prima cornetta della celebre Yorkshire Società Brass Band.Per ricordare l'evento,Philip Sparke ha compos...

The tune Old Hundredth is one of the best-known melodies in all Christian musical traditions and first appeared in the 1551 psalter 'Pseaumes Octante Trois de David', where it is used as a setting for...

La nomina di Bach a cantore della Thomaskirche di Lipsia nel 1723 gli impose di produrre una nuova cantata per ogni funzione domenicale. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring è tratta dalla Cantata n. 147 ed è...

L'immenso lavoro di Johann Sebastian Bach contiene una ventina di cantate profane tra le quali la Cantata della Caccia (BWV 208) dalla quale è estratta Sheep May Safely Graze (Schafe können sicher wei...

Sanctuary was commissioned by Eastern Bay of Plenty Brass from New Zealand and was performed as an own choice piece at the 2018 New Zealand National Brass Band Championships. It opens with an expressi...

British composer Philip Sparke was asked to write this arrangement of Hymn to Frei for the Norwegian Brass Band Frei Hornmusikk. Sparke had already used part of this hymn by a composer well-known in t...

Have Mercy, Lord from J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion is one of the most beautiful arias from the baroque period. In Philip Sparke's arrangement, it is envisaged that the soloists stand together as a...

Sanctuary was commissioned by Eastern Bay of Plenty Brass from New Zealand and was performed as an own choice piece at the 2018 New Zealand National Brass Band Championships. It opens with an expressi...

Claude Debussy scrisse i suoi due libri di Preludi per pianoforte in tarda età, tra il 1909 e il 1913. I 12 brevi brani di ciascun libro mostrano una ricca varietà di stili, stati d'animo ed emozioni,...

Fantasy on the canon 'Freu' dich des Lebens'.

Between 1905 and 1934, Gustav Holst was Director of Music at St Paul's Girls School in Brook Green, London. St Paul's Suite, written for the school's string orchestra, was premiered there in 1913 and...

Between 1905 and 1934, Gustav Holst was Director of Music at St Paul's Girls School in Brook Green, London. St Paul's Suite, written for the school's string orchestra, was premiered there in 1913 and...

1956 entwarf Sir Kenneth MacMillan ein einaktiges Ballett für das Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet in London. Die Musik dafür wählte er aus den beiden erfolgreichen Reihen English Dances von Sir Malcolm...

The Eagle's Quest wurde vom Brevik Musikkorps (Norwegen) in Auftrag gegeben, um den 400. Geburtstag von Cort Adeler, einem berühmten norwegisch-niederländischen Seefahrer, zu feiern, der 1622 in der S...