Battle of Britain: Suite for Orchestra

arranged by Colin Matthews

General Information – Instrumentation – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings

General Information:

Arrangement:
Arranged by Colin Matthews, 1984–5, from the music for the film Battle of Britain, composed 1969.

First Performance:
Unknown

Duration:
About 12 minutes

Movements:

I.   Spitfire Music and Battle in the Air
     II.   March and Siegfried Music

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C81a

Instrumentation:

2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons – 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 3 percussion (side drum, small side drum, bass drum, tambourine, cymbal, tam-tam, glockenspiel) – harp – strings

Publication:

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

Arrangements:

'March and Siegfried Music', arranged for brass band, by Edward Watson

Arranged for military band, by Barrie Hingley

Recordings:

Orchestra Conductor Year Compact Disc Timing
London Philharmonic Orchestra Carl Davis 1986 EMI Classics 65585 12'26"
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner 1990 Chandos CHAN 8870 11'28"
Black Dyke Mills Band  [arr. Watson] James Watson 1995 ASV WHL 2093 5'18"
The Band of the Scots Guards  [arr. Hingley] Major R. J. Owen 2002 SRC 107 12'25"

 

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