A Wartime Sketchbook

for orchestra

arranged by Christopher Palmer

General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings

General Information:

Arrangement:
1990. Arranged by Christopher Palmer from Walton's scores to the following films: The Next of Kin (1941), The Foreman Went to France (1942), Went the Day Well? (1942), and Battle of Britain (1969).

Duration:
About 25 minutes

Movements:

I.   Prologue Moderato maestoso from The Next of Kin and Went the Day Well?
II.   Bicycle Chase Allgero vivo from The Foreman Went to France
III.   Refugees Quasi marcia funebre from The Foreman Went to France
     IV.   Scherzo. Gay Berlin     Allegro scherzando from Battle of Britain
V.   Foxtrots    Moderato fox trot tempo, con eleganza     from The Next of Kin
VI.   Lovers from The Next of Kin
VII.   Striptease Allegro energico from The Next of Kin
     VIII.   Epilogue Allegro agitato from The Foreman Went to France

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C42b

Instrumentation:

3 flutes, 2 oboes, 3 clarinets, 2 bassoons – 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 3 percussion – harp – piano – strings

Manuscript:

Location of Christopher Palmer's manuscript is unknown. The published score (see below) is a facsimile copy.

For information about each film score's manuscripts, see their respective pages:

Publication:

Oxford University Press. Facsimile score, 019 3685728. Score and parts are available on hire.
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: Facsimile score]

Arrangements:

Arranged for brass band, by Paul Hindmarsh.
This version is unpublished, but was recorded in 1995.

'Prologue', arranged for organ solo, by Robert Gower.
Publication: Oxford University Press. Included in A Walton Organ Album, 1996, 019 3758709
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: A Walton Organ Album]

Recordings:

Orchestra Conductor Year Compact Disc Timing
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner 1990 Chandos CHAN 8870 25'10"
Black Dyke Mills Band  [arr. Hindmarsh] James Watson 1995 ASV WHL 2093 14'33"
Prologue: Robert Gower organ  [arr. Gower]   1996 Priory PRCD 591 5'01"

 

WilliamWalton.net – Catalogue of Works – Orchestral Music – Battle of Britain – The Foreman Went to France – The Next of Kin – Went the Day Well?