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Hoffnung Music Festivals 1956, 1958 & 1961

  • Catalogue No: 7633022
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

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Contents

T. E. Bean: Speech by Mr T. E. Bean, General Manager of the Royal Festival Hall

Work length0:42
$1.30
$1.70
  • T. E. Bean (vocals), T.E. Bean (vocals)
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1956/'live' at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Francis Baines: Fanfare

Work length1:08
$1.30
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  • Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall (performed by), The Trumpeters Of The Royal Military School Of Music (lead vocals)
  • Francis Baines
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1956/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Arnold: A Grand Grand Festival Overture, Op. 57

Work length8:10
$1.30
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  • Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra (performed by), The Morley College Symphony Orchestra (lead vocals)
  • Malcolm Arnold, Sir Malcolm Arnold
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1956/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Mozart, L: Concerto for Hose-pipe and Strings (1989 Digital Remaster): III. Allegro

Work length1:41
$1.30
$1.70
  • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Dennis Brain (lead vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals)
  • Norman Del Mar
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1956/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Reizenstein: Concerto Popolare

Work length11:37
Album only
Album only
  • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Yvonne Arnaud (piano)
  • Norman Del Mar
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1956/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Donald Swann, Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Symphony No.94 in G major 'Surprise' (1989 Digital Remaster): II. Andante

Work length6:15
$1.30
$1.70
  • Members of the BBC Music Division, Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals)
  • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra
  • Lawrence Leonard
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1956/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Gerard Hoffnung: Speech by Gerard Hoffnung

Work length2:53
$1.30
$1.70
  • Gerard Hoffnung (vocals), Gerald Hoffnung (vocals)
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1956/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Chopin: Mazurka No. 47 in A minor, Op. 68 No. 2

Work length3:00
$1.30
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  • Tuba Quartet (wind ensemble)
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1989/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Searle: Lochnivar (for speakers & percussion to words by Sir Walter Scott)

Work length6:24
$1.30
$1.70
  • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Gerald Hoffnung (vocals), Gerard Hoffnung (vocals), Yvonne Arnaud (vocals)
  • Lawrence Leonard
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1989/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

trad.: Variations on 'Annie Laurie' (1989 Digital Remaster)

Work length6:29
$6.50
$8.50
  • Festival Ensemble (lead vocals)
  • Gordon Jacob
  • Recorded: 1956-11-13
  • Recording Venue: 13 November 1956/'live' at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Theme (Alerto, ma non troppo)

Track length2:07
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Variation 1 (Poco inglesemente)

Track length0:30
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Variation 2 (Molto zingaresemente)

Track length1:14
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Variation 3 (Alla gigolo)

Track length0:54
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Variation 5 ( Finale: Assai)

Track length1:44
$1.30
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Chagrin: Introductory Music Played in the Foyer

Work length1:03
$1.30
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  • Drum & Fife Band Of The Royal Military School Of Music, Kneller Hall (lead vocals)
  • Francis Chagrin
  • Recorded: 1958-11-21
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Francis Baines: Two Excerpts from a Hoffnung Festival Overture

Work length1:13
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  • Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), J. Weeks (organ), John Weeks (organ), The Trumpeters Of The Royal Military School Of Music (lead vocals)
  • Francis Baines
  • Recorded: 1958-11-21
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Alistair Sampson, Joseph Horovitz: Metamorphosis on a Bed-time Theme (Allegro commerciale in modo televisione)

Work length10:13
Album only
Album only
  • Lionel Salter (harpsichord), Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), April Cantelo (soprano)
  • Joseph Horovitz
  • Recorded: 1958-11-21
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Poston: Sugar Plums

Work length2:28
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  • Robert Ponsonby (percussion), Peter Hemmings (percussion), Lionel Salter (percussion), Felix Aprahamian (percussion), Eric Thompson (percussion), Elizabeth Poston (organ), Dometsch Ensemble (lead vocals)
  • Recorded: 1958-11-21
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Seiber: The Famous Tay Whale (A dramatic poem by William McGonagall, poet and tragedian)

Work length5:04
$1.30
$1.70
  • Annetta Hoffnung (horn), Dame Edith Evans (declaimer), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals)
  • Mátyás Seiber
  • Recorded: 1958-11-21
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Chagrin: Concerto For Conductor and Orchestra (1989 Digital Remaster): Movement

Work length1:25
$1.30
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  • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals)
  • Gerald Hoffnung, Gerard Hoffnung
  • Recorded: 1958-11-21
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Searle: Punkt Contrapunkt

Work length9:03
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  • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Gerard Hoffnung (vocals), John Amis (vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals)
  • Norman Del Mar
  • Recorded: 1958-11-22
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Arnold: Excerpts from 'The United Nations'

Work length5:21
$1.30
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  • Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Royal Military School Of Music Band (lead vocals)
  • Malcolm Arnold, Sir Malcolm Arnold
  • Recorded: 1958-11-22
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Racine Fricker: Waltz for Restricted Orchestra

Work length1:40
$1.30
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  • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals)
  • Peter Racine Fricker, Racine Fricker
  • Recorded: 1958-11-22
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Franz Reizenstein, William Mann: Let's Fake an Opera (1989 Digital Remaster)

Work length20:35
$10.40
$13.60
  • Owen Brannigan (bass), John Dobson (vocals), Otakar Kraus (bass-baritone), Peter Glossop (bass-baritone), Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Duncan Robertson (vocals), Edgar Evans (vocals), Edith Coates (mezzo-soprano), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Gloria Lane (soprano), Hoffnung Festival Chorus (lead vocals), Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Sheila Rex (soprano)
  • Norman Del Mar, Brian Priestman
  • Recorded: 1958-11-22
  • Recording Venue: 21-22 November 1958/'live' in the Royal Festival Hall, London

Here are the girls (Master & Apprentices)

Track length1:59
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I'm Azucena, Who could be plainer? (Azucena)

Track length1:16
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I see by daylight dawning (Beckmesser / Azucena)

Track length2:27
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Nie sollst du mich befragen (Otello / Salome)

Track length2:46
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Daughter of heaven (Otello / Salome / Fidelio)

Track length2:40
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I'm in search of a man (Brünnhilde)

Track length2:26
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O schöne Mélisande (Beckmesser / Don Giovanni / Brünnhilde / Manrico / Nadir / Mélisande / Chorus)

Track length3:33
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I'm Escamillo(Escamillo / Tutti)

Track length3:28
$1.30
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Francis Baines: Rigmarole: Introductory music played in the foyer

Work length0:46
$1.30
$1.70
  • Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall (performed by), Royal Military School Of Music Band (vocals)
  • Recorded: 1961-11-28
  • Recording Venue: 28 November 1961/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Francis Baines: Festival Anthem

Work length2:08
$1.30
$1.70
  • Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall (performed by), Hoffnung Festival Choral Society (performed by), Hoffnung Festival Chorus (lead vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), The Trumpeters Of The Royal Military School Of Music (lead vocals)
  • Francis Baines
  • Recorded: 1961-11-28
  • Recording Venue: 28 November 1961/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Arnold: Overture: Leonora No. 4

Work length9:42
$1.30
$1.70
  • Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Lionel Salter (organ), The Happy Wanderers (lead vocals), The Trumpeters Of The Royal Military School Of Music (lead vocals)
  • Norman Del Mar
  • Recorded: 1961-11-28
  • Recording Venue: 22 November 1961/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Searle: The Barber of Darmstadt (1989 Digital Remaster): Duet

Work length3:00
$1.30
$1.70
  • Hoffnung Festival Choral Society (performed by), Hoffnung Festival Chorus (lead vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), John Amis (vocals), Owen Brannigan (bass)
  • Humphrey Searle
  • Recorded: 1961-11-28
  • Recording Venue: 28 November 1961/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Chagrin: Ballad of County Down (mostly in D major)

Work length4:52
$1.30
$1.70
  • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Forbes Robinson (vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals)
  • Francis Chagrin
  • Recorded: 1961-11-28
  • Recording Venue: 28 November 1961/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Walton: Excerpt from 'Belshazzar's Feast'

Work length1:55
$1.30
$1.70
  • Hoffnung Festival Choral Society (performed by), Hoffnung Festival Chorus (lead vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Owen Brannigan (bass)
  • Sir William Walton
  • Recorded: 1961-11-28
  • Recording Venue: 28 November 1961/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Alistair Sampson: Horrortorio (1989 Digital Remaster)

Work length15:50
$10.40
$13.60
  • John Frost (bass), Pamela Bowden (vocals), Lionel Salter (organ), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Festival Chorus (lead vocals), Hoffnung Festival Choral Society (performed by), April Cantelo (soprano), Stephen Manton (vocals)
  • Joseph Horovitz
  • Recorded: 1961-11-28
  • Recording Venue: 28 November 1961/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Overture & Opening Chorus (tenor / Chorus)

Track length3:15
$1.30
$1.70

Trio (Soprano / Contralto / Tenor)

Track length1:26
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$1.70

Let all things nameless at our feast run wild (Bass solo)

Track length1:33
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With sharped-fanged smile the young bride bowed (Tenor recit) ... My heart is swelling (Soprano solo / Chorus)

Track length1:21
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And while the company retired to a well-earned rest (Tenor recit) ... My child, be seated upon that plasmic chair (Bass solo / Men's Chorus)

Track length1:01
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And in the castle guest room, haunted and creaking (Tenor recit) ... If you can hurt (Contralto solo / Chorus)

Track length2:00
$1.30
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Midnight ... Dracula, still in the Gloom of youth (Tenor)

Track length2:08
$1.30
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But at the reception (Tenor recit)

Track length3:06
$1.30
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Lawrence Leonard: Mobile for Seven Orchestras

Work length4:07
$1.30
$1.70
  • Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall (performed by), Hoffnung Festival Choral Society (performed by), Hoffnung Festival Chorus (lead vocals), Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (performed by), Hoffnung Symphony Orchrestra (lead vocals), Lionel Salter (organ), The Trumpeters Of The Royal Military School Of Music (lead vocals)
  • Lawrence Leonard
  • Recorded: 1961-11-28
  • Recording Venue: 28 November 1961/'live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

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