A
Cadence Sweet, by “Raoul Clifford”
Song from 1897.
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
The realisation
replaces the voice with violin. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Cadence sweet
for violin sync.mp3
Canzonetta (1908)
Ketelbey wrote several pieces with similar titles. This one is a work for violin and piano,
registered with Schott’s in 1908 and published in 1910.
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2016 |
PD, TM |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2018 |
PD, TM |
To hear Berry’s realisation by Sibelius, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Canzonetta,Violin
and Piano synth.mp3
Canzonetta (1912)
An orchestral piece published by Curwen.
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Gramophone Review |
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Orchestra |
Regal Orchestra, ?Ketèlbey |
Regal G 6057 |
28223 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Apr 14] |
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Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110870 |
CD |
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2004 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
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Orchestra |
Synchrophone Orchestra. |
Octacros 1001 |
5104-1 |
10” 78 |
UK |
1934 |
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In Ketèlbey’s own recording, three bars consisting of harp arpeggios are
cut from the final cadence. The single
first violin adjusts the bowing to allow some extravagant portamenti. Hear it
at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jZ__PglM2Y&list=OLAK5uy_nosgSLwQR0rQ9IdZNBzjiQ_h3J95inavo&index=12
Canzonette
This appeared simultaneously 1896 for flute and for oboe, both with piano.
The musical text is identical, but the flute version also has the dedication
“to D.A.R.”, suggesting that this was the preferred medium.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2016 |
PD, TM |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
Berry chooses the flute version for his realisation. Click here to hear it http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Canzonette,
Flute and Piano synth.mp3
McCanna synthesizes the oboe version. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Canzonette for
oboe sync.mp3
Capriccietto
A brilliant piano piece, no doubt written to show off the composer’s own
skill.
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Label |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2018 |
PD, TM |
To hear this realisation, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Capriccietto
Piano synth.mp3
Caprice pianistique: piano
novelty
The orchestral parts
were published in 1947. It was probably
written for the composer himself to play the solo piano part in his annual
concert series.
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Piano with orchestra |
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leaper |
Marco Polo 8.223442 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
Apr 94 p.48 |
BL, NX, PD, TM |
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Re-issue Slovak
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sylvia Čápová, Leaper |
- Naxos 8.555175 2023 |
CD |
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2023 |
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Hear this recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrSS4dAkMVY
A
Carol for Christmas-tide (The Christmas bells are ringing), by “Raoul Clifford”
A single verse carol
for SATB, published in a magazine called The Children’s Friend in
December 1897.
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Label |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
TM |
Chal Romano (Gipsy
Lad): descriptive overture
The music was first published in 1924, and received
what was probably its first performance at Bournemouth during Easter that year.
Composer’s synopsis
Chal Romano draws upon a romance of gipsy life. It opens with a broad theme in the style of a
Gipsy Folk Song of forceful character. A
plaintive melody follows suggesting the sadness of the rejected Romany Chal (gipsy lad). A
theme in the major now heard represents his passionate expression of love. The
first theme is heard again, suggesting Fate; a dance tune now represents the
Gipsy girl and her merry companions; the love-theme is heard again with scraps
from the girls' dance tune interwoven with it.
A kind of recitative for 'cellos (with tremolo string accompaniment)
suggests the lover pleading once more with the girl, but she dances away to
join the gipsy revels which (with a final reference to the Fate motif just
before the end) brings the overture to a conclusion.
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Military
band |
Band
of HM Welsh Guards, Harris |
Aco G 15984 |
C
7740 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[July
26] |
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Military
band |
Band
of HM Coldstream Guards, Gatty Sellars (organ),
Evans |
HMV
B 2508 |
BR
1342-2, 1343-1 |
10”
78, ?2 sides |
UK |
[Nov.27] |
Nov
27 p.235 |
BL |
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Re-issue (“cond.
Mackenzie-Rogan”) |
British
Military Music Archive, BMMACG 1606 |
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CD |
UK |
2016 |
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Orchestra |
Albert
W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra, Ketèlbey |
WAX
3213, 3214 |
12”
78, 2 sides |
UK |
[July
28] rec.Feb 28 |
July
28 p.61 |
BL,
PD, (TM CAS) |
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Re-issue |
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Pearl GEMM CD 9968 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
BL, PD, TM |
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Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110174 |
CD |
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2001 |
BL,
PD, TM |
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Re-issue |
- Revivendo. RVPC 004 |
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CD |
Brazil |
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Brass
band |
Leyland
Motors Band, Cotter |
Decca
SB 326 |
LP |
UK |
1976 |
Oct
76 p.665 |
BL |
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Orchestra |
Philharmonia Orchestra, Lanchbery |
EMI
ASD 3542 |
LP |
UK |
1978 |
July
78 p.261 |
BL, TM |
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Re-issue |
- Angel EAC
55030 |
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LP |
Japan |
[1978] |
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Re-issue |
- Angel S 37483 |
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LP |
US |
1978 |
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Re-issue |
- EMI 7C 06102986 |
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LP |
Sweden |
1978 |
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Re-issue |
-
Hörzu 1C 05702986Q |
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LP |
Germany |
1978 |
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WC |
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Re-issue |
- His
Master’s Voice TC-ASD 3542 |
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CAS |
UK |
1978 |
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Re-issue |
- EMI 26
1370 |
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LP |
Germany |
1978 |
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Re-issue |
- World Record Club R-05771 |
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LP |
Australia |
1979 |
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Re-issue |
- Voz de su Amo 10C 265002986Q |
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LP/CAS |
Spain |
[1980] |
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WC |
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Re-issue |
- Voix de son maître 2C 2692986 |
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LP/CAS |
France |
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WC |
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Re-issue |
- Sélection du Reader’s Digest 320/6 |
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LP |
France |
1981 |
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Re-issue |
- His Master’s Voice 1546401 |
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LP |
Sweden |
1983 |
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Re-issue |
- Richmond B 20083 |
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LP |
US |
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Re-issue |
- Angel EAC-80451 |
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LP |
Japan |
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Re-issue |
-
EMI CDC 7478062 |
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CD |
UK |
1987 |
Nv 87 p.825 |
WC |
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Re-issue |
-
EMI 7243 5730 025 |
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CD |
UK |
1990 |
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Re-issue |
-
EMI CDM 253 8402 |
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CD |
Netherlands |
1992 |
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Re-issue |
-
CD-CFP 4637 |
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CD |
UK |
1993 |
Mar
94 p.114 |
BL, TM |
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Re-issue |
-
TC-CFP 4637 |
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CAS |
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1993 |
Mar
94 p.114 |
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Re-issue |
-
EMI 7234 5680 6122 |
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CD |
UK |
1993 |
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Re-issue |
-
EMI Classics 5730002 |
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CD |
Germany |
[1998] |
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WC |
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Re-issue |
-
HMV 5724852 |
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CD |
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1998 |
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Re-issue |
- EMI
Classics 7243 5730 0124 |
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CD |
Netherlands |
1998 |
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Re-issue |
-
EMI Classics 0724 3573 00056 |
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CD |
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[1999] |
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NX |
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Re-issue |
-
EMI Classics 0742 3573 00155 |
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CD |
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[1999] |
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NX |
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Re-issue |
- EMI Classics
7243 8266 6424 |
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CD |
Europe |
2002 |
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Re-issue |
-
EMI Classics 00946 35239959/352399-2 |
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CD |
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2006 |
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NX |
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Re-issue |
- EMI 50112920 |
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CD |
?Japan |
2007 |
PD, TM |
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Re-issue |
- Angel
HCD-1353 |
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CD |
Japan |
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Orchestra |
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leaper |
Marco Polo 8.223442 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
Apr 94 p.48 |
BL, NX, PD, TM |
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Re-issue |
- Naxos 8.555175 |
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CD |
UK |
2023 |
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Clarinets |
Choeur de Clarinettes de Colmar, Philipp |
private recording |
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Web |
France |
2017 |
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Wind band |
Banda Municipal de Málaga, Haro |
private recording |
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Web
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Spain |
rec.24 Oct 20221 |
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Ketèlbey’s own recording omits the first 11 bars, and a further
22 in the dance tune section. At one
point the timpani player mis-counts a long roll, and plays his next entry two
bars early.
Lanchbery cuts a short repeated
section (16 bars) during the revels, but this remains one of the finest
recordings of any of Ketèlbey’s music. Hear it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lNg_D369tw
Leaper plays the work
complete. Hear him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0LGhiIMqJM
There is no organ audible on
the Coldstream Guards recording. Hear them at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vSw80DtzEKA&list=RDAMVMvSw80DtzEKA
Watch the Colmar Clarinets at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8YTnmYaWP8
Watch the Málaga Band
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpAuCN6pXnI
. The music begins at 0’44”.
Chansonette, by “Raoul Clifford”
Ensemble piece for 1 or 2
mandolins, accompanied by piano or guitar, with optional cello, published
around 1900 by the firm John Alvey Turner. When our copy was purchased from their shop
around 1980, this was the only Raoul Clifford piece they had remaining, and
they sold it at the original cover price of 4/- (20p). They had published half a dozen other pieces
in the 1890s, but these have never been found – please let us know if you have
one.
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Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
To hear a realisation with
piano accompaniment, click http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Chansonette
for mands, pf, vlc sync.mp3
To hear a realisation with
guitar accompaniment, click http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Chansonette
for mands, guit, vlc sync.mp3
Chant
Solennel, op.23 no.1 = op.25, by “Anton Vodorinski”
This was published
in a collection of Organ Recital Pieces op.23 not later than 1911, and
was issued as a piano piece op.25 in 1915.
In my copy of the organ collection there is a pencilled inscription at
the head of Chant Solennel “5.4.12. Antwerp.
Good Friday”.
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Artists |
Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
The realisation is of the organ
version, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Chant solennel for
organ sync.mp3
3 Characteristic Pieces
- 1. Peasant Dance
- 2. Humoreske
- 3. Scherzando
These piano works were the
composer’s party pieces as a student, with Peasant
Dance and Scherzando being
performed as early as 1890 under the titles Danse
du Paysan and Scherzo.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
Click here to hear these realisations.
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Peasant Dance
for piano sync.mp3
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Humoreske for piano sync.mp3
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Scherzando for
piano sync.mp3
Christmas: medley fox-trot, by “A. William Aston”
A novelty item from
1923, probably written with recording in mind, as the record was made before
the music was published.
Composer’s
synopsis
The
festive season is suggested by the opening bells and the Christmas Carol, the "Grandfather's
Clock" brings to mind happy days at "Home, Sweet Home"
where "The little brown Jug" added to the conviviality. The Chimes are heard and "Auld Land
Syne" rings out in joyous merriment.
N.B. This Fox-Trot may be played as a "Medley Intermezzo"
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Label |
Matrix |
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Date |
Gramophone Review |
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Orchestra “Chistmas Fox Trot” |
Regal
Dance Orchestra, [Ketèlbey] |
Regal
G 8043 |
A
254 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Dec
23] rec.Sept 23 |
TM, (TMmp3) |
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Orchestra |
Edison
Bell Dance Orchestra, Wood |
Winner
4318 |
9589 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Dec
25?] rec.Oct 25 |
TM |
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Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110870 |
CD |
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2004 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
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Military
band “Christmas Medley” |
Band
of HM Irish Guards, Hassal |
Parlophone E 5942 |
1639 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Dec
27?] |
BL,
TM, (TMmp3) |
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Pianola |
Adam Ramet |
Private
recording |
|
web |
UK |
2021 |
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Ketèlbey’s own recording uses a reduced orchestra
with no audible strings. Strong piccolo, but no flute. The bass line is taken by a tuba. There are a few changes to the published
score, including added syncopation in Grandfather’s Clock and Little
Brown Jug. In the da capo, Home
Sweet Home is played by cornets as in bars 37-53, piccolo & clarinet as
61-77. Trombone smears in Little
Brown Jug are omitted. Three cuts are made in repeated
sections, totalling 30 bars. Played at
78rpm sounds a tone flat. When played at
written pitch, minim = ca.122. Hear the latter (edited with the help of Chris
Webber) at www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/christmas
- ketelbey.MP3
The Edison Bell Dance
Orchestra has some re-distribution of the parts to suit the band. The two sections of chimes have the bells
playing unaccompanied. The piece is
shortened by 40 bars by cutting Grandfather’s Clock and The Little
Brown Jug from the repeat. Auld Lang
Syne (marked Grandioso) is played slower.
Hear this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWMZkGDFKg&list=OLAK5uy_nosgSLwQR0rQ9IdZNBzjiQ_h3J95inavo&index=14
The Irish Guards have a painfully loud
glockenspiel. They make one cut of 32
bars. Auld Lang Syne is played slower. Curiously, a cornet plays an extra
phrase through “Stopped short” in Grandfather’s Clock section. At the end, an
extra chord is added. Hear is at www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/christmas%20-%20%20hassall.MP3
Hear Ramet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH04gOLyk_c
Christmas
Carol (Come bring with a noise)
The Ketelbey family Christmas card for 1890. The music is in the style of a 4-part hymn,
with a strong melody and clumsy harmony parts.
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Medium |
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Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
Come
o’er the Woodlands
A two-part song in Novello’s School Music Review series, dating from
1897. It was sometimes used as a test piece
in competitions, for instance one won by Wrea Green
School choir in Lancashire in 1909.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
This realisation is
for oboe, cor anglais and
piano, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Come o'er the
woodlands for oboes sync.mp3
Coronation Fanfare
Scored for 6 trumpets, side drum, bass drum, cymbals & bells, with
optional 2 horns and trombone. Although this was published in time for the
coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953, it may have been originally intended for
that of George VI in 1937. A review of a
concert in Ramsgate in October 1941 mentions
“an
eight-trumpet fanfare by Ketelbey played on trumpets
used for the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey…”.
His only published fanfare at
this date was Fanfare for a Ceremonial
Occasion, which requires 3 trumpets and 3 trombones – perhaps the reporter
overlooked the possibility that the fanfare trumpets could have included
fanfare trombones.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
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Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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Brass ensemble |
Band of the Royal New Zealand Airforce, Simpson |
Salem XPS5060 AB |
Tape |
New Zealand |
1970 |
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Brass ensemble |
Onyx Brass, Wilson |
Chandos CHSA 5221 |
CD |
UK |
2018 |
June 18 p.58 |
NX, PD, TM |
Hear this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDh3KnVozg
The Country that I Love, by “Raoul Clifford”
Song with optional
mandolin obligato from 1896, words by Florence Hoare.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL, PD, TM |
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Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
private
recording |
DVD |
UK |
rec.26.11.2009 |
PD, TM |
Dempsey’s CD can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
Webpage last updated 7 May
2023