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CONTACT: For information contact
Andrew Knowles of the William Alwyn Foundation
30
Florida Avenue
Hartford, Huntingdon
Cambs. PE29 1PY
TEL: 01480-456931
Mobile: 0788 1785274
apkmusicprom@ntlworld.com
BOOK REVIEW
Composing
in Words: William Alwyn on his Art (Musicians on
Music: Volume 9)
Edited by Andrew Palmer MusicWeb Special Price
£28 post-free World-wide
NEWS
FORTHCOMING
PERFORMANCES:
STOP
PRESS – In February 2012 the esteemed
British violist Lawrence Power begins his tour with
the Scottish Ensemble in which he will give seven performances
of Alwyn’s Pastoral Fantasia for viola and string
orchestra. Other works on the programme include works
by Haydn, Mozart, and Luke Bedford (New Commission).
All concerts commence at 7.30pm except where stated.
Dates and venues are as follows:
17th
February – One Touch Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness
commencing at 8pm
18th
February – The Music Hall, Aberdeen
19th
February – The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
20th
February – St. Paul’s Cathedral, Dundee
22nd
February – Perth Concert Hall, Perth
23rd
February – City Halls, Glasgow
24th
February – Wigmore Hall, London
On
24th March a concert of English music in memory of the
former Chairman and co-founder of The Rawsthorne Trust
John Belcher who died last October will be given at
St. Andrew’s Church, Grinton-in-Swaledale, Nr.
Richmond, N. Yorks commencing at 2pm. Admission Free.
Alwyn’s Autumn Legend for Cor Anglais and Strings
will be performed alongside works by Alan Rawsthorne,
John McCabe, Philip Wood, Elgar and Delius. Artists
taking part are Richard Simpson (cor anglais), Linda
Merrick (clarinet), John Turner (recorder), and the
Lonsdale String Ensemble conducted by Ian Thompson.
On
23rd June the World Premiere concert performance of
Alwyn’s Violin Concerto will take place at St.
John’s Smith Square, London commencing at 7.30pm.
The renowned British violinist Lorraine McAslan will
be accompanied by the Ealing Symphony Orchestra conducted
by John Gibbons.
Recordings
Two
new orchestral discs will be released during 2011 on
the Naxos label. The first due in April will contain
the following:
Violin Concerto
Miss Julie Suite (World Premiere Recording of new orchestral
suite arranged by Philip Lane)
Fanfare
for a Joyful Occasion
Lorraine
McAslan (Violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570705)
The
next one is due in August:
Dramatic
Overture: The Moor of Venice (arranged by Philip Lane
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in G for String Orchestra
Serenade
for Orchestra (World Premiere Recording)
Seven
Irish Tunes – Suite for Small Orchestra (World
Premiere Recording)
Concerto
Grosso No. 3
Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David
Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570145)
Due
to be recorded (for the Dutton Epoch label) in January
2011 is the Prelude and Derrybeg Fair Music from Alwyn’s
first opera The Fairy Fiddler. This will be with the
Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin
Yates. The coupling will be two other 20th century British
Symphonies.
Just
recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London is a disc of
film music by Doreen Carwithen. Titles are as follows:
Boys in Brown, East Anglian Holiday, Man Trap, Men of
Sherwood Forest, Three Cases of Murder, To the Public
Danger, and Travel Royal. All are world premiere recordings.
The BBC Concert Orchestra was conducted by Gavin Sutherland.
This will be released on the Dutton Epoch label in February
2011.
PUBLISHING
The
Foundations first publication – Cricketty Mill
for piano solo (as recorded by Ashley Wass on Naxos
8. 570359) is now available at a price of £5.95.
All orders and enquires should be addressed to Andrew
Knowles, Administrator to The William Alwyn Foundation
– details as above.
Forthcoming
from Stainer & Bell is the first publication of
the Sonatina for Violin and Piano as recorded by Madeleine
Mitchell and Andrew Ball on Naxos 8. 570340. Further
details will follow in due course.
WILLIAM
ALWYN SCORED FILMS ON DVD: FEATURE FILMS:
as at 30th November 2010
TITLE Releasing Company Catalogue Number Region
A Night To Remember DD Home Entertainment DDHE 106751
2=UK
A Night To Remember Criterion Spine No. 7 1=USA
A Night To Remember (Kenneth More Collection) 5 Discs
Granada Ventures Ltd 3711525713 2=UK
The Black Tent (Donald Sinden Collection) 11 Discs Granada
Ventures Ltd 3711525723 2=UK
Captain Boycott (Stewart Granger Collection) 12 Discs
Granada Ventures Ltd 3711524473 2=UK
The Card DD Home Entertainment DDHE 123558 2=UK
The Card (Classic Alec Guinness Box Set) DD Home Entertainment
DDHE 123852 2=UK
The Card (includes Special Features) Network 7952615
2=UK
Carve Her Name With Pride DD Home Entertainment DDHE
107613 2=UK
Carve Her Name With Pride (Classic War Time Dramas)
DD Home Entertainment DDHE 107210 2=UK
Carve Her Name With Pride (Special Edition) Network
7952548 2=UK
The Crimson Pirate Warner Bros 27521 1=USA
The Crimson Pirate Blackhorse ORB 10141 2=UK
The Fallen Idol Optimum Classics OPTD 0118 2=UK
The Fallen Idol (Graham Greene Box Set) Optimum Classics
OPTD 0588 2=UK
The Fallen Idol Criterion Spine No. 357 1=USA
Geordie (Alastair Sim Collection - Screen Icons) 5 Discs
Optimum Classics OPTD 1043 2=UK
Geordie Optimum Classics OPTD 1046 2=UK
The Golden Salamander ? (Greek Import) Not Known 2=Greece
Green For Danger DD Home Entertainment DDHE 122001 2=UK
Green For Danger Network 7952429 2=UK
Green For Danger Criterion Spine No. 375 1=USA
The History of Mr Polly DD Home Entertainment DDHE 120898
2=UK
The History of Mr Polly (Classic HG Wells Box Set) DD
Home Entertainment DDHE 123853 2=UK
The History of Mr Polly (includes Special Features)
Network 7952587 2=UK
The History of Mr Polly (John Mills Centenary Collection
I) Granada Ventures Ltd 3711527453 2=UK
I See a Dark Stranger Home Vision Entertainment SEE010DVD
1=USA
I'll Never Forget You (The House in the Square) (Tyrone
Power Matinee Idol Collection) 20th Century Fox Home
Ent 2252344 1=USA
In Search of the Castaways Walt Disney D881041 2=UK
In Which We Serve (Special Edition) DD Home Entertainment
DDHE 122019 2=UK
In Which We Serve (Complete War Collection) Optimum
Classics OPTD 0774 2=UK
In Which We Serve (John Mills Centenary Collection II)
ITV DVD Granada Ventures 3711527603 2=UK
In Which We Serve (Restored Edition) ITV DVD Granada
Ventures 3711530043 2=UK
In Which We Serve (Restored Edition) David Lean Centenary
Edition ITV DVD Granada Ventures 3711527463 2=UK
Island of Desire (Saturday Island) VCI Entertainment
KPF603 1=USA
Lady Godiva Rides Again (Diana Dors Collection) Granada
Ventures Ltd 3711525823 2=UK
Lady Godiva Rides Again Optimum Classics OPTD 1129 2=UK
Life For Ruth Network 7952653 2=UK
The Long Memory (John Mills Centenary Collection II)
ITV DVD Granada Ventures 3711527603 2=UK
Madeleine (The David Lean Collection) 9 Discs Granada
Media 3711522593 2=UK
Madeleine (David Lean Centenary Collection) 10 Discs
ITV DVD Granada Ventures 3711527463 2=UK
Madeleine (Digitally Restored Edition) ITV DVD Granada
Ventures 3711530013 2=UK
Madeleine Filmax Home Video None 2=Spain
The Magic Box Optimum Classics OPTD 0944 2=UK
The Magnet DD Home Entertainment DDHE 124519 2=UK
The Magnet (Definitive Ealing Collection) DD Home Entertainment
DDHE 123970 2=UK
The Magnet Optimum Classics OPTD 0606 2=UK
The Magnet (Ealing Studios Box Set No. 3) Optimum Classics
OPTD 0747 2=UK
Malta Story DD Home Entertainment DDHE 120190 2=UK
Malta Story (Classic Alec Guinness Box Set) DD Home
Entertainment DDHE 123852 2=UK
Mandy Optimum Classics OPTD 0909 2=UK
Master of Ballantrae Warner Bros 27522 1=USA
Master of Ballantrae Orbit Media Ltd ORB 10153 2=UK
The Million Pound Note DD Home Entertainment DDHE 120675
2=UK
The Million Pound Note (Classic Gregory Peck Box Set)
DD Home Entertainment DDHE 123850 2=UK
Morning Departure DD Home Entertainment DDHE 120673
2=UK
Morning Departure (Classic John Mills Vol. 2) DD Home
Entertainment DDHE 122376 2=UK
Morning Departure (John Mills Centenary Collection II)
ITV DVD Granada Ventures 3711527603 2=UK
The Naked Edge Cornerstone Media ORP028DVD 2=UK
The Naked Edge Vellavision SL Madrid 12023 2=Spain
Night of the Eagle Optimum Classics OPTD 0812 2=UK
The October Man (John Mills Centenary Collection I)
Granada Ventures Ltd 3711527453 2=UK
Odd Man Out (Special Edition) Network 7952509 2=UK
Odd Man Out (James Mason Collection - Screen Icons)
Optimum Classics OPTD 0927 2=UK
On Approval Image Entertainment ID5663DSDVD 1=USA
The Rainbow Jacket Optimum Classics OPTD 1547 2=UK
The Rocking Horse Winner Home Vision Entertainment HVE
ROC060 1=USA
The Seekers (Land Of Fury) Filmax Home Video 2=Spain
The Ship That Died of Shame (The British War Collection)
Starz/Anchor Bay SKU: DV12795 1=USA
The Ship That Died of Shame (Richard Attenborough BoxSet)
Optimum Classics OPTD 1210 2=UK
The Silent Enemy Wienerworld Ltd WNRD5027 2=UK
The Smallest Show on Earth Momentum Pictures MP184D
2=UK
The Smallest Show on Earth (The Peter Sellers Collection)
Momentum Pictures 2=UK
The Smallest Show on Earth Alpha Home Entertainment
89218535498 1=USA
The Smallest Show on Earth (The Peter Sellers Collection)
Starz/Anchor Bay SKU: DV12107 1=USA
Svengali VCI Entertainment UPC-089859854828 1=USA
Svengali (The Renown Pictures Literary Classics Collection)
VCI Entertainment UPC-089859851223 1=USA
Svengali Simply Media 131836 2=UK
Swiss Family Robinson Walt Disney Home Video D881077
2=UK
Swiss Family Robinson Walt Disney Home Video UPC-786936143836
1=USA
The Way Ahead DD Home Entertainment DDHE 120186 2=UK
The Way Ahead (Classic David Niven Box Set) DD Home
Entertainment DDHE 123848 2=UK
The Way Ahead (Complete War Collection) Optimum Classics
OPTD 0774 2=UK
The Winslow Boy Optimum Classics OPTD 1524 2=UK
They Flew Alone Odeon Entertainment ODNF 198 2=UK
Third Man on the Mountain Walt Disney Home Video 36537
1=USA
WILLIAM
ALWYN SCORED FILMS ON DVD: DOCUMENTARIES
as of 31st October 2010
Title Releasing Company Catalogue Number Region
A City Speaks - Manchester's Civic Film 1947 North West
Film Archive None 2=UK
Africa Freed (on Tunisian Victory DVD) Imperial War
Museum AV00667 2=UK
Africa Freed (on Tunisian Victory DVD) DD Home Entertainment
DDHE 121473 2=UK
Atlantic Trawler Panamint Cinema PDC 2030 2=UK
The Battle for Freedom (Dylan Thomas A War Films Anthology)
Imperial War Museum AV00990 2=UK
The Battle for Freedom (Dylan Thomas A War Films Anthology)
DD Home Entertainment DDHE 123702 2=UK
The Crown of the Year (40's Britain) Panamint Cinema
PDC 2006 2=UK
Desert Victory Imperial War Museum AV00666 2=UK
Desert Victory DD Home Entertainment DDHE 121472 2=UK
Desert Victory (The Victory Films Collection) Imperial
War Museum AV00618 2=UK
Desert Victory (The Victory Films Collection) DD Home
Entertainment DDHE 121504 2=UK
Eastern Victory (War in the Air - BBC TV) DD Home Entertainment
DDHE 121461 2=UK
Festival in London (London in Festival Year 1951) Panamint
Cinema PDC 2032 2=UK
Fifty North (War in the Air - BBC TV) DD Home Entertainment
DDHE 121461 2=UK
The Grassy Shires (The Pattern of Britain - 40's Britain)
Panamint Cinema PDC 2019 2=UK
The Harvest Shall Come (Dig for Victory) Strike Force
Entertainment SND6666 2=UK
I Was A Fireman (Humphrey Jennings Collection) Film
First FF 2 2=UK
I Was A Fireman (Fire Service at War) Imperial War Museum
AV00991 2=UK
Jane Brown Changes Her Job (Women and Children at War)
Imperial War Museum AV00884 2=UK
Land of Promise (Land of Promise:The British Documentary
Movement 1930-1950 British Film Institute ISBN5035673007563
2=UK
Letter from Ulster (Overpaid, Oversexed & Over Here)
Panamint Cinema PDC 2034 2=UK
Lift Your Head, Comrade (Words for Battle - Writers
at War) Imperial War Museum AV00885 2=UK
Living With Strangers (Women and Children at War) Imperial
War Museum AV00884 2=UK
The New Britain (Words for Battle - Writers at War)
Imperial War Museum AV00885 2=UK
The New Britain (We Forgot about Germany) Panamint Cinema
PDC 2040 2=UK
Our Country (40's Britain) Panamint Cinema PDC 2027
2=UK
The Proud City (London Pride - 40's Britain) Panamint
Cinema PDC 2029 2=UK
Spring on the Farm (The Crown of the Year - 40's Britain)
Panamint Cinema PDC 2006 2=UK
Steel Goes To Sea (Shipyards and Docks at War) Imperial
War Museum AV00562 2=UK
Steel Goes To Sea (Shipyards and Docks at War) DD Home
Entertainment DDHE 120108 2=UK
Summer on the Farm (The Crown of the Year - 40's Britain)
Panamint Cinema PDC 2006 2=UK
Summer on the Farm (Land of Promise:The British Documentary
Movement 1930-50) British Film Institute ISBN5035673007563
2=UK
The True Glory Imperial War Museum AV00277 2=UK
The True Glory DD Home Entertainment DDHE 105324 2=UK
The True Glory (The Victory Films Collection) Imperial
War Museum AV00618 2=UK
The True Glory (The Victory Films Collection) DD Home
Entertainment DDHE 121504 2=UK
Tunisian Victory Imperial War Museum AV0067 2=UK
Tunisian Victory DD Home Entertainment DDHE 121473 2=UK
Tunisian Victory (The Victory Films Collection) Imperial
War Museum AV00618 2=UK
Tunisian Victory (The Victory Films Collection) DD Home
Entertainment DDHE 121504 2=UK
Wales, Green Mountains, Black Mountains (Dylan Thomas
A War Films Anthology) Imperial War Museum AV00990 2=UK
Wales, Green Mountains, Black Mountains (Dylan Thomas
A War Films Anthology) DD Home Entertainment DDHE 123702
2=UK
Welcome to Britain (Overpaid, Oversexed & Over Here)
Panamint Cinema PDC 2034 2=UK
Winter on the Farm (The Crown of the Year - 40's Britain)
Panamint Cinema PDC 2006 2=UK
WVS (Women and Children at War) Imperial War Museum
AV00884 2=UK
DVD
(Carwithen):
East
Anglian Holiday – Region 2 (UK)
Heights
of Danger – Region 2 (UK)
Three
Cases of Murder – Region 2 (UK)
Elizabeth
is Queen (Compilation DVD of short British Pathé
documentaries under the general title of ‘Queen
Elizabeth in the 1950’s’) – Region
2 (UK)
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