Hoffnung Music Festivals (1956, 1958, 1961)EMI CLASSICS CMS7 63302 2
Royal Festival Hall, 13 November 1956: mono
- Speech by Mr. T. E. Bean, General Manager of the Royal Festival Hall [0’43"l
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Francis BAINES - Fanfare [1’08"]
Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music conducted by the Composer -
Malcolm ARNOLD - A Grand Grand Overture [8’09"]
Hoffnung [alias Morley College] Symphony Orchestra conducted by the Composer -
Leopold MOZART - Third movement from Concerto for
Hose-pipe and Strings [1’41"]
Dennis Brain (hose-pipe) Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Norman Del Mar -
Franz REIZENSTEIN - Concerto popolare (A
Piano Concerto to End All Piano Concertos) [11’37"] (*)
Yvonne Arnaud (piano) Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Norman Del Mar -
HAYDN (arr. Donald SWANN) - Andante from Symphony
No.94 In G (‘Surprise’) [6’15"]
Soloists: members of the BBC Music Division, Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Leonard - Speech by Gerard Hoffnung [2’53"]
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CHOPIN (arr. Daniel ABRAMS) - Mazurka No.47 in A minor
Op.68 No.2 [3’00"]
Tuba Quartet -
Humphrey SEARLE - Lochinvar for speakers and
percussion, to words by Sir Walter Scott [16’24"]
Speakers: Yvonne Arnaud and Gerard Hoffnung - conducted by Lawrence Leonard -
Gordon JACOB - Variations on ‘Annie Laurie’
Theme (Alerto, ma non troppo) [2’07"]
Variation 1 (Poco inglesemente) [0’30"]
Variation 2 (Molto zingaresemente) [1’14"]
Variation 3 (Alla gigolo) [0’54"]
Variation 5 (Finale: Assai) [1’44"]
Festival Ensemble conducted by the Composer
Royal Festival Hall, 21 and 22 November 1958: mono
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Francis CHAGRIN - Introductory music played in the
foyer [1’03"]
Drum and Fife Band of the Royal Military School of Music conducted by the Composer -
Francis BAINES - Two excerpts from A Hoffnung
Festival Overture [1’13"]
Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra, John Weeks (organ), conducted by the Composer -
Alistair SAMPSON / Joseph HOROVITZ - Metamorphosis on
a Bed-time Theme [10’13"] (Allegro commerciale in modo televisione)
April Cantelo (soprano), Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Lionel Salter (harpsichord)
Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra - conducted by the Composer -
TCHAIKOVSKY (realised by Elizabeth POSTON) - Sugar
Plums [12’28"]
Dolmetsch Ensemble with Elizabeth Poston (organ), Felix Aprahamian (percussion) and Lionel Salter, Eric Thompson, Peter Hemmings and Robert Ponsonby (batterie) -
Mátyás SEIBER - The Famous Tay Whale (A
dramatic poem by William McGonagall) [15’04"]
Declaimed by Dame Edith Evans with Annetta Hoffnung (fog-horn) - Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra - conducted by the Composer -
Francis CHAGRIN - Movement from Concerto for
Conductor and Orchestra [1’25"]
The Maestro (Gerard Hoffnung) with the Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra
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Bruno Heinz - JAJA Punkt Contrapunkt [9’04"]
Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar
Script by John Amis, music by Humphrey SEARLE.
(The performance of this work is preceded by a discussion and analysis of it by Dr Klaus Domgraf-Fassbaender and Prof. von der Vogelweide -
Malcolm ARNOLD - Excerpts from The United Nations
[5’21"]
Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by the Composer -
Peter Racine FRICKER - Waltz for Restricted
Orchestra [1’40"]
Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (deflated) conducted by the Composer -
MANN, REIZENSTEIN and WETHERELL - Let’s Fake an
Opera (or The Tales of Hoffnung - Scenes 4-11) [20’39"]
Music under the direction of Normal Del Mar assisted by Brian Priestman.
Royal Festival Hall, 28 November 1961: stereo
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Francis BAINES - Rigmarole: Introductory
music played in the foyer [0’46"]
Six trumpets, six trombones and tour percussion of the Royal Military School of Music -
Francis BAINES - Festival Anthem [2’08"]
Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Hoffnung Festival Choral Society - Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer -
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Overture: Leonora No.4
[9’42"]
Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music ‘The Happy Wanderers’, Lionel Salter (organ) Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar -
Bruno Heinz - JAJA Duet from the comic opera The
Barber of Darmstadt [3’00"]
(Random realisation from original graph by Humphrey Searle, translation from the German libretto by William Mann). Herr Knochen: Owen Brannigan (bass), Der Redepariner: John Amis (tenor)
Hoffnung Festival Choral Society, Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Humphrey Searle -
Francis CHAGRIN - Ballad of County Down,
mostly in D major [4’52"]
Forbes Robinson (speaker), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer -
Sir William WALTON - Excerpt from Belshazzar’s
Feast [1’55’]
Introduction by Mr T. E. Bean CBE
Owen Brannigan (bass), Hoffnung Festival Choral Society, Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra - conducted by the Composer -
Joseph HOROVITZ - Horrortorio, words by Alistair
Sampson from a scenario by Maurice Richardson (Scenes 18-25) [15’55"]
Edgar Allan Poe - Stephen Manton, Dracula’s Daughter – April Cantelo, Dowager Baroness Frankenstein – Pamela Bowden, Frankenstein’s Son – Stephen Manton, Count Dracula – John Frost,
Hoffnung Festival Choral Society and Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer -
Lawrence LEONARD Mobile for Seven Orchestras
[4’08"]
Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Lionel Salter (organ), Hoffnung Festival Choral Society’ Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer and others