Prelude: Richard III

for orchestra

arranged by Muir Mathieson

General Information – Instrumentation – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings

General Information:

Arrangement:
Arranged by Muir Mathieson in 1963, from the music for the film Richard III, composed 1955.

First Performance:
Unknown

Duration:
About 8 minutes

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C63a

Instrumentation:

2 flutes, 2 oboes (second doubling cor anglais), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet (optional), 2 bassoons – 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba (optional) – timpani, 2 percussion (side drum, bass drum, cymbal, bell in B-flat) – harp – strings

Publication:

Oxford University Press. Study score, 1964, 019 3683458. Score and parts are available on hire.
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: Study score]

Arrangements:

Arranged for military band, by Norman Richardson.
Publication: Boosey and Hawkes. 1973. Score, QMB291. Set of parts also available for purchase..
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: Full score, arr. Richardson]
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: Condensed score, arr. Richardson]
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: Score and parts, arr. Richardson]

Recordings:

WilliamWalton.net – Catalogue of Works – Orchestral Music – Richard III