As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra

with soprano solo

arranged by Christopher Palmer

General Information – Instrumentation – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings

General Information:

Arrangement:
Arranged by Christopher Palmer, 1984–5, from the music for the film As You Like It, composed 1936.

First Performance:
Unknown

Duration:
About 12 minutes

Movements:

1.   Prelude — [Allegro con spirito]
     2.   Moonlight — [Andante molto tranquillo]
3.   Under the Greenwood Tree —     [Allegretto semplice]
4.   The Fountain —
5.   Wedding Procession [Alla marcia, con moto]

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C31b

Instrumentation:

Soprano solo

3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons – 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones – timpani, 2 or 3 percussion – 1 or 2 harps – harpsichord (doubling celesta) – strings

Publication:

Oxford University Press. Score and parts are available on hire.

Arrangements:

Arranged for chamber ensemble, with soprano solo, by Edward Watson.

Recordings:

Soloist Orchestra Conductor Year Compact Disc Timing
Catherine Bott soprano Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner 1989 Chandos CHAN 8842 12'30"
unknown RTÉ Concert Orchestra Andrew Penny 1995 Naxos 8.553344 12'30"
Lorna Rushton soprano English Serenata  [arr. Watson] Guy Woolfenden 1997 Meridian CDE 84349 12'13"

 

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