As You Like It: Suite for Orchestra

with optional mixed chorus

arranged by Carl Davis

General Information – Instrumentation – Publication – Recordings

General Information:

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

First Performance:
Unknown

Duration:
About 14 minutes

Movements:

1.   Title music
     2.   Fountain Scene —
3.   Wrestling Scene
4.   Sunrise
5.   Procession
6.   Snake Scene
7.   Waterfall Scene
8.   Hymn [with optional chorus]

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C31a

Instrumentation:

Mixed chorus (SATB)  [optional]

Flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons – 4 horns, 2 trumpets – timpani, 3 percussion – harpsichord – harp – strings

Publication:

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

Recordings:

Orchestra Conductor Year Compact Disc Timing
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir Carl Davis 1987 EMI 65585 14'37"

 

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