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Overtures from the British Isles: Volume 3

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CHAN 20351

Overtures from the British Isles: Volume 3

CD UPC: 0095115235126

Release Date: February 2026
Originally recorded in November 2024

Composer
William Havergal Brian

Composer
Geoffrey Bush

Composer
Alan Rawsthorne

Composer
Daniel Jones

Composer
Frank Bridge

Composer
Robin Orr

Composer
Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell

Composer
Benjamin Britten

Composer
Alan Bush

Composer
Clifton Parker

Composer
Eric William Fenby

Conductor
Rumon Gamba

Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Producer
Jonathan Cooper

Engineer
Stephen Rinker

Assistant Engineer
Phillip Halliwell

Venue 23 May (The Tinker’s Wedding, YorickStreet Corner, The New Age, Paul Bunyan), 20 November (The Glass Slipper), and 21 November (other works) 2024
MediaCity UK, Salford, Manchester

Genre:
Symphonic repertoire
Classical

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WILLIAM HAVERGAL BRIAN

The Tinker’s Wedding (1948)

7:18

Comedy Overture No. 2

To George Hawley, Blythe Bridge, Staffs

Allegro Vivace e giocoso – Animato – Tempo I – Brilliante – Meno Allegro ma tranquillo – Giocoso – Tempo meno Allegro – Allegro Vivace e giocoso – Animato – Tempo I – Giocoso

GEOFFREY BUSH

Yorick (1949)

8:43

Overture

‘Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...’ Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1

To Trevor Harvey

Vivo – Poco meno mosso – Poco meno mosso, più tranquillo – A tempo, Più mosso – Animando – Con brio, Tempo I – Maestoso (meno mosso) – Lento – Pochissimo più mosso – Tempo di Lento –

Tempo I – Poco meno mosso (declamando) – A tempo – Maestoso – Molto allargando – A tempo (meno mosso) – Maestoso – Allargando molto – Più Vivo – Brioso – Tutta forza

ALAN RAWSTHORNE

Street Corner (1944)

5:39

Overture

To Walter Legge

Allegro con brio – Più mosso – Allargando

DANIEL JONES

première recording

Comedy Overture (1942)

6:27

Con moto – Poco a poco più caloroso

FRANK BRIDGE

Rebus (1940)

10:07

Overture for Orchestra

Allegro deciso – Poco moderato – Tempo giusto – A tempo, grazioso e rubato – Sostenuto e cantando – A tempo giusto – Ben ritmico – Un pochissimo meno mosso – Tempo I – Moderato – Largamente – Moderato – Sostenuto e cantando – Poco moderato – Allegro vivo

ROBIN ORR

première recording

The Prospect of Whitby (1948)

7:00

Overture

Largo – Allegro vivace – Meno mosso – Molto andante – Andante affettuoso – Largo – Più mosso – A tempo I, Allegro vivace

RICHARD ANTHONY SAYER ARNELL

The New Age, Op. 2 (1939)

9:38

Overture

To my friends in England

Andante maestoso – Allegro – Presto – Maestoso

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Overture to ‘Paul Bunyan’, Op. 17 (1941)

5:20

Operetta in a Prologue and Two Acts

Orchestrated 1977 by Colin Matthews (b. 1946)

Moderato poco maestoso – Doppio movimento – Moderato, come prima – Doppio movimento

ALAN BUSH

première recording

Resolution, Op. 25 (1944)

6:57

Overture for Orchestra

Con moto moderato

CLIFTON PARKER

10.

Overture to ‘The Glass Slipper’ (1944)

3:00

Play with Book by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon

Vivace

ERIC WILLIAM FENBY

11.

Rossini on Ilkla Moor (1938)

7:08

Overture for Orchestra

To Tom Laughton

John Bradbury clarinet

Allegro – Andante sostenuto – Allegro ben misura – Un poco più lento – Un pochino più mosso – Tempo I – Poco meno – Un pochino più mosso – Tempo I

TT 77:20

Conductor: Rumon Gamba

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Yuri Torchinsky leader