Fantasia On British Sea Songs

The Fantasia for Organ has been described as both ‘fleshy in its Romanticism’ and also by the composer as ‘quite severe in parts’ an apt combination for the vast changes of the beginning of the post-War era.York Bowne was a British composer whose fifty-year career musical career spanned much of the 20th century. Bowen was not only a prolific composer he was also a pianist conductor …

As well as the more familiar composers James Hook and Thomas Arne (who wrote Rule Britannia) this collection of 12 English melodies includes tunes by the less well known William Reeve William Shieldand Thomas Arne's son Michael. Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling' which Sir Henry Wood worked into his 'Fantasia on British Sea Songs' - a corner stone of the Last Night of the Proms is also here.The Gr…

Les trois mélodies de cette suite de chants de marin sont extraites de la très célèbre Fantasia on British Sea Songs de Sir Henry Wood. Farewell and Adieu (1796) relate le voyage retour de marins anglais en provenance d?Espagne. The Saucy Arethusa raconte l?histoire de la frégate HMS Arethusa entrée dans la légende par son duel contre la frégate française La Belle Poule en juin 1778. Quant au pé…

By Philip Sparke. (Score & Parts). ANGLO MUSIC PRESS. Size 9x12 inches. Published by Anglo Music.

By Philip Sparke. (Score). ANGLO MUSIC PRESS. Size 9x12 inches. 44 pages. Published by Anglo Music.