The Gerard Hoffnung Discography - EMI recordings
	Includes: The Hoffnung Music Festival Concert 1956 (mono) The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival 1958 (mono) The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival 1961 (stereo) Full content details below
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THE HOFFNUNG MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT Royal Festival Hall, 13 November 1956 Speech by Mr T. E. Bean - General Manager of the Royal Festival Hall Fanfare (Francis Baines) Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music conducted by the composer A Grand Grand Overture (Malcolm Arnold) Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. Third movement from Concerto for Hosepipe and Strings (Leopold Mozart) Dennis Brain (hose-pipe) • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar Concerto popolare (A Piano concerto to end all piano concertos) (Franz Reizenstein) Yvonne Arnaud (piano) • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del mar Andante from Symphony No.94 in G (Surprise) (Haydn arr. Donald Swann) Soloists: Members of the BBC Music Division • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Leonard Speech by Gerard Hoffnung Mazurka No.47 in A minor Op.68 No.2 (Chopin arr. Daniel Abrams) Tuba Quartet Lochinvar for speakers and percussion, to words by Sir Walter Scott (Humphrey Searle) Speakers: Yvonne Arnaud & Gerard Hoffnung • conducted by Lawrence Leonard Variations on "Annie Laurie" (Gordon Jacob) Theme (Alerto, ma non troppo Variation 1 (Poco inglesemente) Variation 2 (Molto zingaresemente) Variation 3 (Alla gigolo) Variation 5 (Finale: Assai) Festival Ensemble conducted by the composer THE HOFFNUNG INTERPLANETARY MUSIC FESTIVAL Royal Festival Hall, 21 & 22 November 1958 Introductory music played in the Foyer (Francis Chagrin) Drum and Fife Band of the Royal Military School of Music conducted by the Composer Two excerpts from A Hoffnung Festival Overture (Francis Baines) Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra • John Weeks (organ) • Conducted by the composer Metamorphosis on a Bed-time Theme (Alistair Sampson - Joseph Horovitz) (Allegro commerciale in modo televisione) April Cantelo (soprano) • Ian Wallace (bass-baritone) • Lionel Salter (harpsichord) • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer Sugar Plums (realised by Elizabeth Poston) Dolmetsch Ensemble with Elizabeth poston (organ) • Felix Aprahamian (percussion) • Lionel Salter, Eric Thompson, Peter Hemmings and Robert Ponsonby (batterie) The Famous Tay Whale (A dramatic poem by William McGonagall, poet and tragedian, set to music by Mátyás Seiber) Declaimed by Dame Edith Evans with Annetta Hoffnung (fog-horn) • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer Movement from Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra (Francis Chagrin) The Maestro (Gerard Hoffnung) with the Hoffnung Symphony orchestra Punkt Contrapunkt (Bruno Heinz Jaja) Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar The performance of this work is preceded by a discussion and analysis of it by Dr Klauss Domgraf-Fassbaender and Prof von der Vogelweide (script by John Amis, music by Humphrey Searle) Excerpts from The United Nations (Malcolm Arnold) Band of the Royal Military College of Music • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra • conducted by the composer Waltz for Restricted Orchestra (Peter Racine Fricker) Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (deflated) conducted by the composer Let's Fake an Opera (or The Tales of Hoffnung) (Mann, Reizenstein & Wetherell) Music under the direction of Norman Del Mar assisted by Brian Priestman THE HOFFNUNG ASTRONAUTICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Royal Festival Hall, 28 November 1961 Rigmarole: Introductory music played in the foyer (Francis Baines) Six trumpets, six trombones and four percussion of the Royal Military School of Music Festival Anthem (Francis Baines) Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music • Hoffnung Festival Choral Society • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra • conducted by the composer Overture: Leonora No 4 (Beethoven) Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music • The Happy Wanderers • Lionel Salter (organ) • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar Duet from the comic opera The Barber of Darmstadt (Bruno Heinz Jaja) Random realisation from the original graph by Humphrey Searle, translation from the German libretto by William Mann) Herr Knochen: Owen Brannigan (bass) • Der Redpartner: John Amis (tenor) • Hoffnung Festival Choral Society • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Humphrey Searle Ballad of County Down, mostly in D major (Francis Chagrin) Forbes Robinson (speaker) • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer Excerpt from Belshazzar's Feast (Sir William Walton) Introduction by Mr T. E. Bean CBE Owen Brannigan (bass) • Hoffnung Festival Choral Society • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer Horrortorio (Joseph Horovitz; words by Alistair Sampson from a scenario by Maurice Richardson) Conducted by the composer Mobile for Seven Orchestras (Lawrence Leonard) Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music • Lionel Salter (organ) • Hoffnung Festival Choral Society • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer and others The Hoffnung site is part of   Webmaster Len Mullenger Also on MusicWeb: CD reviews: Classical, Film Music, Jazz, Nostalgia, Heavy Metal; Classical concert reviews A simple guide to MusicWeb is the SiteMap Return to Sales Page