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Hoffnung's musicfestivals
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Title
Hoffnung's musicfestivals [sound recording].
Published
[England] : EMI, 1989.
Physical Description
2 sound discs : digital, mono./stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from program booklet.
The festivals were devised & organized by Gerald Hoffnung.
Compact discs.
Originally issued on 3 (separate) analog discs, later in analog sets SLS 5069 & SLS 870 (p1974).
Program notes by William Mann, with drawings by Hoffnung, personnel details, & librettos of The Barber from Darmstadt & Horrortorio inserted in container.
Variant and related titles
Hoffnung's music festivals
Hoffnung's music festivals.
Hoffnung Music Festival Concert.
Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival.
Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival.
Format
Audio
Added to Catalog
July 20, 2011
Performers
Various soloists ; The Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra ; The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus ; The Hoffnung Choral Society ; The Morley String Orchestra ; The Festival Ensemble ; The Dolmetsch [Recorder] Ensemble ; a tuba quartet ; The Happy Wanderers ; The Trumpeters and the Fife and Drum Band of the Royal Military School of Music.
Contents
[cd. 1] The Hoffnung Music Festival concert, Royal Festival Hall, Nov. 13, 1956. Speech by Mr. T.E. Bean (43 sec.)
Fanfare / Francis Baines (1:08)
A Grand Grand Overture / composed & conducted by Malcolm Arnold (8:09)
Concerto for hose-pipe and strings [sic; i.e., Sinfonia pastorella]. 3rd movement / Leopold Mozart (Dennis Brain, hose-pipe, Norman Del Mar, conductor) (1:41)
Concerto popolare : a piano concerto to end all piano concertos / Franz Reizenstein (Yvonne Arnaud, piano, Del Mar, conductor) (11:37)
Symphony no 94 in G : "Surprise". Andante / Joseph Haydn ; arr. Donald Swann (BBC Music Division, Lawrence Leonard, conductor) (6:15)
Speech by Gerard Hoffnung (2:53)
Mazurka no 47 in A minor, op. 68 no 2 / Chopin ; arr. [for tuba quartet by] Daniel Abrams (3 min.)
Lochinvar : for speakers & percussion / Humphrey Searle ; words, Sir Walter Scott (Arnaud & Hoffnung, speakers, Leonard, conductor) (6:24)
Variations on Annie Laurie / composed & conducted by Gordon Jacob (6:30).
[cd. 1] The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Nov. 21-22, 1958. Introductory music played in the foyer / Francis Chagrin (1:03)
Two excerpts from a Hoffnung Festival Overture / composed & conducted by Francis Baines (1:13)
Metamorphosis on a bed-time theme : Allegro commerciale in modo televisione / Joseph Horovitz ; libretto by Alistair Sampson (April Cantelo, soprano, Ian Wallace, bass, Lionel Salter, harpsichord, Horovitz, conductor) (10:13)
Sugar plums / [Tchaikovsky] ; realised by Elizabeth Poston (Dolmetsch [Recorder] Ensemble, with Felix Aprahamian, percussion, & batterie trio) (2:28)
The famous Tay whale : a dramatic poem by William McGonagall / music, Matyas Seiber (Edith Evans, speaker, Annetta Hoffnung, foghorn, Gerard Hoffnung, conductor) (5:04)
A movement from Concerto for conductor and orchestra / Chagrin (Hoffnung, conductor) (1:25)
[cd. 2] Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival, Nov. 21-22, 1958 [continued]. Punkt Contrapunkt / Bruno Heinz-Jaja [i.e., Humphrey Searle] ; with discussion by Dr. Klaus Domgraf-Fassbaender & Prof. von der Vogelweide (Del Mar, conductor ; script, John Amis) (9:04)
Excerpts from the United Nations / Malcom Arnold (5:21)
Waltz for restricted orchestra / composed & conducted by Peter Racine Fricker (1:40)
Let's fake an opera, or, the Tales of Hoffnung / William Mann, Reizenstein, [Eric?] Wetherell (Del Mar, conductor ) (20:39)
[cd. 2] The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Nov. 28, 1961. Introductory music played in the foyer / Baines (46 sec.)
Festival anthem / Baines (Del Mar, conductor) (2:08)
Overture : Leonora no 4 / [after] Beethoven (Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music ; The Happy Wanderers ; Salter, organ ; Del Mar, conductor) (9:42)
Duet from the comic opera "The barber from Darmstadt" / Heinz-Jaja [Searle] ; words, William Mann (3 min.)
Ballad of County Down, mostly in D major / Chagrin (Forbes Robinson, speaker, Chagrin, conductor (4:52)
Excerpt from "Belshazzar's Feast" / Walton (Owen Brannigan, bass, T.E. Bean, speaker, Walton, conductor) (1:55)
Horrortorio / Horovitz ; words, Alistair Sampson ; scenario, Maurice Richardson (15:55)
Mobile for seven orchestras [chance composition] / Lawrence Leonard (Salter, organ, conducted by Leonard "and others") (4:08).
Issue number
CDMB 63302 (CDM 7 63303 2--CDM 7 63304 2) EMI
CMS 7 63302 2 EMI
SLS 870 (BOX 87001--BOX 87003) EMI/His Master's Voice
SLS 5069 His Master's Voice/EMI
Subjects
Also listed under
Dolmetsch Ensemble.
Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra.
Hoffnung Choral Society.
Happy Wanderers (Musical group)
Royal Military School of Music. Band.
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