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The poem circulated privately for a few years until it was set to music by Holst, to a tune he adapted from his Jupiter to fit the poem's words. It was performed as a unison song with orchestra in the early 1920s, and it was finally published as a hymn in 1925/6 in the Songs of Praise hymnal (no. 188). [3] It was included in later hymnals ...
Lampugnani arranged music from Handel's "Alessandro" (HWV 21), which was subsequently performed by the "Middlesex" opera company French song Sans y penser Another version of the French song (HWV 155) in a lower key and a simpler bass line Italian Aria Sa perchè pena il cor c. 1712–1717 For alto Orchestral Suite Water Music chamber suite
Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (1934) [6] (for string orchestra and harp; arranged by Ralph Greaves from Vaughan Williams's treatment of folk tunes in his opera Sir John in Love) Two Hymn Tune Preludes (1936) for small orchestra: 1. Eventide; 2. Dominus regit me; Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (1939) for strings and harp
The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music is a compilation of classical works recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor David Parry. [2] Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London, the compilation was released in digital formats in November, 2009 and as a 4-CD set in 2011. [3]
Masque; music for the play by Frances Ralph Gray Incidental music: 102: 27b: 1909: Stepney Children's Pageant: for orchestra: Incidental music: 102a: 27b: 1909: A Song of London: for unison chorus and piano: from the incidental music for Stepney Children's Pageant; words by G.K. Menzies Incidental music: 114: 1910: The Praise of King Olaf
The music prepares a surprise in its orchestral introduction through the use of static layering of soft string textures followed by a sudden rousing forte tutti entrance, augmented by three trumpets. The middle section, "And all the people rejoic'd, and said", is a dance form in 3
The Manse in Thaxted, where Gustav Holst lived from 1917 to 1925 "Thaxted" is a hymn tune by the English composer Gustav Holst, based on the stately theme from the middle section of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral suite The Planets and named after Thaxted, the English village where he lived much of his life.
The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its supposed astrological character.