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£44.95Masquerade (Score Only)
The first performance took place on the 4th. September 1993 at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester during the British Open Brass Band Championships.Note by Philip Wilby:Masquerade is a centenary tribute to Verdi's last opera Falstaff and takes its final scene as the basis for my own piece. Thus I have used some of Verdi's music, and some of Shalespeare's plot, and woven them into a fabric with highly demanding music of my own to produce a work in the great tradition of operatically-based brass band pieces. Such scores date from the very beginnings of band repertory and are often not direct arrangements in the established sense but new compositions produced in homage to a past master. They may still offer performers and audience alike something familiar interwoven with something new. My own piece reuses some elements from the original story: . .Falstaff has been caught in a web of his own lies by the ladies of the town, who propose to teach him a lesson. The story opens at night in Windsor Great Park. The plotters, variously disguised in Hallowe'en fashion (as fairies,elves hobgoblins etc!) assemble in the park to await Falstaff's arrival (musicologists will, perhaps, note a rare use of 'large bottle in F' being used during this scene of suppressed alcoholic revelry!). Falstaff's companions, Bardolph,Piston and Robin, enter (represented here by the three trombones!), and are variously abused by the masqueraders. At the height of the Tout an alarm sounds and Falstaff (euphonium cadenza) enters as Midnight strikes. From a safe hiding place he watches as the disguised Nanetta (principal comet) sings a serene solo as the moon appcars above the trees. With sudden force the others seize him and drag him from his hiding place. As in the traditional game 'Blind Man's Buff', he is roughly turned seven times (a sequence of solo accelerandi) until, at last, he recognizes his assailants as his sometime friends. Far from complaining, Verdi's character concludes the opera with a good-humoured fugue on the words.... 'All the World's a Joke... Every mortal laughs at the others, But he laughs best who has the final laugh. Philip Wilby.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£58.60ANVIL CHORUS (Choir with Brass Band) - Verdi, Giuseppe - Lorriman, Howard
From Il Tracatore. Grade: Medium.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£35.00Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Verdi, Giuseppe - Littlemore, Phillip
The Anvil Chorus?from Verdi's opera?Il Trovatore?is from Act II. The original Italian is 'Coro di zingari' (Gypsy chorus), and it depicts the Gypsy men striking their anvils (hence the English name) and singing the praises of hard work, good wine and their women!?Duration: 4:30
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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BALLET MUSIC (from the Opera 'Macbeth') (Brass Band) - Verdi, Giuseppe - Lorriman, Howard
Medium/Advanced
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£59.70Brindisi (Cornet and Euphonium Duet with Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Verdi, Giuseppe - Newsome, Roy
from La TraviataDuration: 3.15
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£56.00Brindisi (Vocal (Soprano/Tenor) Duet with Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Verdi, Giuseppe - Fernie, Alan
From La Traviata
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£25.00Celeste Aida (Euphonium/Baritone Solo with Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Verdi, Giuseppe - Golland, John
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Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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Celeste Aida (Trombone Solo with Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Verdi, Giuseppe - Golland, John
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Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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