English suites no. 10

[calimac]

Sorry for the long pause, but I'm not nearly done yet. I was going to put in another Peter Warlock suite that I hadn't known about, but it got taken offline. Instead, we have here a piece by Gordon Jacob, a workman composer of the mid-20C. It's his William Byrd Suite, arrangements for concert band of music by the English Renaissance composer.

While there are a number of earnest amateur performances in single YouTube files, you really want to hear the classic professional recording of this one. Each individual movement of that is in a separate file, and while they'll play in succession automatically on YouTube, that doesn't work in embedding.

So instead of embedding this one, I'll just link to it, and there it is. The opening "Earle of Oxford March" is to my taste the most terrific, but the whole suite is absolutely charming.

Comments

[sartorias]

Oh, wow. Listening to the Earle of oxford's Marche, and it's such a winner I am shifting this tab over so I can indulge the entire thing while working, soon as I finish this net run.

[sartorias]

Oh, yeah. I love the opening best--the chord shifts are ravishing, but I love the entire thing, especially the one with the moody melody repeated, countered by a bell. Excellent writing music. Thank you.

[cmcmck]

Not a piece I know, so thanks very much for sharing it with us!