Aberfoyle
Song with words by
Clifton Bingham, published in 1900. Aberfoyle
is a village in Stirlingshire, north of Glasgow.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
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Song |
Godfrey
James, ?Ketèlbey |
Columbia
D 178 |
26385 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[June
08] |
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Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL, PD, TM |
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Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
private
recording |
DVD |
UK |
rec.26.11.2009 |
PD, TM |
Dempsey’s CD can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
- Aberfoyle Waltz, by
Dan Godfrey
The song was
arranged as a waltz for a dancing, lasting over 9 minutes.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
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Wind
band |
Casino
Orchestra, ?Ketèlbey |
Columbia
D 179 |
26267 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[June
08] |
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|
Re-issue |
- Empire Symphony Orchestra, ?Ketèlbey |
- Rena (Columbia) 1009 |
R
45 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Dec 08] |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110869 |
CD |
|
2003 |
NX,
PD, TM |
The recording includes
the refrain from Ketèlbey’s song and a section
composed by Godfrey. Although named as an orchestra, there are no string
instruments audible in this small band of musicians. Hear it at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lH8ev5TKyZk&list=RDAMVMlH8ev5TKyZk
The Adventurers: overture
Originally written
for Harry Mortimer and the Fairey Aviation Works Band, with the first
performance broadcast on 18th November 1945. A review in The British Bandsman
mentioned its “brilliance and a most effective chorale.”
It was re-worked for
orchestra in 1954. Several sections
were cut or re-ordered in a different sequence, and the texture was made
idiomatic for orchestra.
Composer’s synopsis for the
brass band version
This work is divided into 3 parts:
The 1st part portrays vigour and earnestness
of purpose, plus a little sentiment.
The 2nd part, in a Chorale-like
movement (interspersed with a "threatening" quaver-figure in.the
Bass) represents the serious reflections of men engaged in a hazardous
enterprise
The 3rd part is a
light-hearted melody developed through changing keys (in conjunction with.the
"threatening" Bass-figure) to a climax which leads to the resumption
of part of the 1st theme and organ-like ff rendering of the Chorale,
with a Maestoso Coda bringing the work to a resounding close
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
Czecho-Slovak
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leaper |
Marco
Polo 8.223442 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
Apr
94 p.48 |
BL, NX, PD, TM |
|
|
Re-issue
Slovak
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leaper |
Naxos
8.555715 |
CD |
|
2023 |
|
|
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
|
PD, TM |
Leaper's
recording is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKkq4qrVCc
McCanna’s
realisation is of the brass band version. Hear it at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Adventurers
for brass band (online-audio-converter.com) sync.mp3
Algerian Scene (= Algerian Song)
Composer’s
synopsis
This piece is written to portray the
characteristics of an Eastern song, such as one would hear in the native
quarters of Algiers (hence the title "Algerian Scene") and opens with
a melody of a recitative nature accompanied by soft sustained harmonies
and tom-tom, then follows the sound of the large bell in the Mosque with slow
flowing phrases under which a persistent quaver figure is heard, from which the
principal melody (which may be called the "refrain" of the Song)
eventually emerges. This refrain is
treated in various keys, and after a reference to the opening recitative the "refrain"
is again taken up (this time tutti) and brings the piece to a sonorous
conclusion.
Algerian
Scene was
first published in 1925 under the title Algerian Song. The sheet
music has three sections, Recitative, Bell in the Mosque, and Refrain,
which are played through and then reprised in varied form and key. The Recitative
melody had previously been used as a sung interjection in the recording of In
a Persian Market on Columbia 3422, where it represents a voice from the
minaret calling to prayer.
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Date |
Gramophone Review |
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Military
band |
Homochord
Military Band |
HH 9032-1 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1926]
rec.30.9.26 |
Nov
26 p.255, Mar 27 p.421 |
(TM
CD) |
|
|
Violin,
piano |
Albert
Sandler, Ketèlbey |
WAX 4643 |
12“78 |
UK |
[Oct
29] rec. Feb 29 |
Oct
29 p.208 |
BL,
(TM CAS) |
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|
Re-issue |
-
Pearl GEMM CD 9968 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
BL, PD, TM |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110848 |
CD |
UK |
2002 |
BL, NX, PD, TM |
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|
Re-issue |
-
Revivendo RVPC 004 |
|
CD |
Brazil |
|
|
|
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Orchestra |
London
Concert Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1142 |
CP 938 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1941] |
(TM
CD) |
|
|
Organ |
Richard Ellsasser
(John Hays Hammond Jr. Museum, Gloucester, Mass.) |
MGM E 3282 |
|
LP |
US |
1955 |
|
WC, TM |
Dempsey says the Homochord Military Band is conducted by Bert Firman
The composer’s own recording
is for violin and piano, which may represent his original conception of the
piece. The reprise of the Bell section is cut, along with a few
other bars. No complete copy of the sheet music of this version has been
located, with just the first page seen from an advert. This page shows
that for the recording the composer improvised a new piano accompaniment.
The Homochord Band makes two large cuts, a total of 62 bars.
The London Concert
Orchestra makes numerous cuts, with all sections suffering major
truncation. The orchestra adds a harp not in Ketèlbey’s original scoring,
but other instruments such as bassoon and most percussion are missing.
Richard Ellsasser gives a novel interpretation, treating the piece almost like an improvisation. He disregards the composer’s rhythms, to create an impressionist picture of great beauty, sultry and languid. It lasts 7’48”. Hear it at www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/algerian scene - Ellsasser.mp3
Alice in Wonderland (= Four Melodious Pieces, op.20,
“by Anton Vodorinski”)
This
suite of was originally issued under the title Alice in Wonderland, but
was soon changed to the bland Four Melodious Pieces. This was perhaps in response to claims over
breach of copyright.
It is written for people with
small hands and legs, with neither octave stretches or pedal markings. In two cases the metronome markings are
unexpectedly slow.
- 1. Alice (=
Moderato grazioso)
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Piano |
Guy
Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL, PD, TM |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
McCanna’s
realisation replaces the metronome of crotchet=100
with 124. Rowland’s performance is similarly paced with much idiomatic rubato,
but suffers from an out-of-tune piano.
Click here to hear
Rowland http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
and here for McCanna http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AIW1
Alice for piano sync.mp3
- 2. The March Hare
(= Saltarello)
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Piano |
Guy
Rowland |
private
recording |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
TM |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
The composer’s metronome
marking is dotted crotchet=100. This is
far slower than the speed normally taken for a saltarello, for instance in the
finale of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony,
a work Ketèlbey would have known well, in
the same key of A minor. The realisation
uses dotted crotchet=170. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AIW2 March
Hare for piano sync.mp3
- 3. The Queen of
Hearts: Valse Gracieuse
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
Click
here to hear the realisation. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AIW3
Queen of Hearts for piano sync.mp3
- 4. The Knave of
Hearts (= Danse Grotesque = Marche Grotesque)
This movement was performed
as early as 1895.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
Private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
Click
here to hear the realisation. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AIW4
Knave of Hearts for piano sync.mp3
Allegretto
Leggiero: study for melody and accompaniment
An advanced piano
study published in 1927. A wide-ranging
angular left-hand melody under rippling right-hand semiquavers, with
suggestions of whole-tone harmony. An
interesting piece!
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
Click
here to hear the realisation. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Allegretto
leggiero for piano sync.mp3
Allegretto Pastorale
A short piece for oboe and
piano written in 1895.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2016 |
TM |
To
hear this, click on http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Allegretto
Pastorale for Oboe and Piano synth.mp3
Allegro con Fuoco, op.51
This piano study was written
for a book of advanced examination
studies published by Trinity College of Music in 1908. As an examiner himself, Ketèlbey would have
appreciated brevity in set works.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Piano |
Phillip Sear |
private recording |
web |
UK |
2012 |
|
|
Synthesized |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
Sear’s performance can be
seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8aF5CUkQw
Berry’s realisation follows the composer’s very fast metronome mark. Click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Allegro con fuoco for piano sync.mp3
Allegro
Giocoso: rondo
This is Ketèlbey’s
only known original piece for piano duet.
It looks like a student exercise in style composition, in this case in
late Haydn’s or early Beethoven’s. It
was performed at Trinity College of Music in 1898.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
Click
here to hear the realisation. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Allegro
giocoso for piano sync.mp3
Alpine Serenade
This short orchestral piece
was registered with Bosworth’s in 1954, but the parts not published till 1956.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2016 |
TM |
To hear this, click on http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Alpine Serenade orch synth.mp3
Angelo d'Amore
The
work was first performed by Tom Jenkins and the Palm Court Orchestra on 16th January 1949,
under the title Angelo mio. Publication followed later in the same year.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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Orchestra |
West
End Celebrity Orchestra, Voss |
Bosworth
BC 1242 |
CP 1688, CTP 17587 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1949] |
(TM
CD) |
|
|
re-issue “Golden Age” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 121 |
|
CD |
UK |
2016 |
|
|
|
|
Piano |
Rosemary Tuck |
Marco Polo 8.223699 |
CD |
UK |
1993 |
BL, NX, PD, TM |
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|
|
re-issue |
- Naxos 8.574299 |
|
CD |
UK |
2021 |
Awards 21 p.84 |
NX, TM |
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Synthesized |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
|
mp3 |
UK |
2016 |
|
TM |
The
Soho Archive re-issue can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aGI4SucmZY&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=32
Tuck's recording can be heard at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=65SbIVo5YU0&list=RDAMVM65SbIVo5YU0
To hear Berry’s orchestral realisation, click on http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Angelo
d'Amore orch synth.mp3
The West End Celebrity Orchestra cuts 18 bars. The harp plays more notes than written, and in
the reprise the melody is given to tutti cellos rather than solo violin as in
the published parts – perhaps this is a relict of the scoring used by Tom
Jenkins.
The melody in Melody
in G is similar to that in the piano piece Romantic Melody, which
had originally been published as Melody in A flat.
The harmony of bars
4-9 of Prelude is identical to bars 6-11 of Kreisler’s Praeludium and
Allegro “by Pugnani”, another prelude in E minor based on broken
chords. Kreisler’s piece was published
in 1910, while the earliest known date for this collection is 1911.
- Complete
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
Private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
TM |
The numbering in the
table below is editorial. As ever, apologies for the dodgy French in some of
the titles.
|
No. |
Title |
Key |
Hand |
Click to hear |
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1 |
A Frolic |
C major |
Right |
|
|
2 |
An Evening Reverie |
C major |
Left |
|
|
3 |
Tarantella |
A minor |
Right |
|
|
4 |
Forest Murmurs |
A minor |
Left |
|
|
5 |
Melody in G |
G major |
Right |
|
|
6 |
The Aeolian Harp |
G major |
Left |
|
|
7 |
Prelude |
E minor |
Right |
|
|
8 |
Valse Pathétique |
E minor |
Left |
|
|
9 |
Nocturne |
F major |
Right |
|
|
10 |
A Caprice |
F major |
Left |
|
|
11 |
Moto Perpetuo |
D minor |
Right |
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AM11
Moto Perpetuo sync.mp3 |
|
12 |
Spinning Song |
D minor |
Left |
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AM12
Spinning song sync.mp3 |
|
13 |
Danse de Ballet |
Bb major |
Right |
|
|
14 |
Song without Words |
Bb major |
Left |
|
|
15 |
Valse Excentrique |
G minor |
Right |
|
|
16 |
Air Varié |
G minor |
Both |
|
|
17 |
Will o’ the Wisp |
D major |
Right |
|
|
18 |
Scherzo |
D major |
Left |
|
|
19 |
Melodie Triste |
B minor |
Right |
|
|
20 |
Romance |
B minor |
Left |
|
|
21 |
An Idyll |
A major |
Right |
|
|
22 |
Meditation |
A major |
Left |
|
|
23 |
Bolero |
F# minor |
Right |
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AM23
Bolero sync.mp3 |
|
24 |
Gondel-Lied |
F# minor |
Left |
|
|
25 |
The Merry Peasants |
Eb major |
Right |
|
|
26 |
Souvenir Sympathètique |
Eb major |
Left |
|
|
27 |
Saltarello |
C minor |
Right |
|
|
28 |
Humoreske |
C minor |
Left |
|
|
29 |
Valse Brillante |
Ab major |
Right |
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AM29 Valse brillante
sync.mp3 |
|
30 |
Novellette |
Ab major |
Both |
|
|
31 |
Capriccietto |
F minor |
Right |
|
|
32 |
Rondino à la
Beethoven |
F minor |
Left |
|
|
33 |
Carillon |
E major |
Right |
|
|
34 |
Berceuse |
E major |
Left |
|
|
35 |
Petite Rhapsodie |
C# minor |
Right |
|
|
36 |
Impromptu |
C# minor |
Left |
|
|
37 |
Pastorale |
B major |
Right |
|
|
38 |
Danse Grotesque (imitation of
bassoon and piccolo) |
B major |
Left |
|
|
- |
realised for bassoon and piccolo |
|
|
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AM38 Danse grotesque
for piccolo and bassoon sync.mp3 |
|
39 |
Country Dance |
G# minor |
Right |
|
|
40 |
Polonaise |
G# minor |
Left |
|
|
41 |
Morceau Valsant |
Db major |
Right |
|
|
42 |
Swing Song |
Db major |
Left |
|
|
43 |
Moment
Fantastique |
Bb minor |
Right |
|
|
44 |
Chanson de la
Tristesse (a la Chopin) |
Bb minor |
Left |
|
|
45 |
Galop Brillante |
Gb major |
Right |
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AM45 Galop
brillante sync.mp3 |
|
46 |
Venezia |
Gb major |
Left |
|
|
47 |
Polish Dance |
Eb minor |
Right |
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/AM47 Polish
dance sync.mp3 |
|
48 |
The Mill |
Eb minor |
Left |
|
Danse Grotesque has an alternative realisation for piccolo and
bassoon – both parts go below the range of the real instruments, but no problem
for our MuseScore software, which also doesn’t have
to breathe!
We like to think
that the synthesized Galop Brillante outdoes Rosemary Tuck’s recording
in both gallop and brilliance – the composer’s metronome mark indicates this
breakneck speed.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Carillon |
Trevor Workman |
Bournville Carillon
BC000005 |
CD |
UK |
2003 |
TM |
This
arrangement of the original piano study is by Workman himself. The recording was made at a live performance
on Bournville Carillon, Birmingham, on 9th August 2003. This piece
will be particularly attractive to any supporters of Portsmouth Football Club
(like me).
- 34. Berceuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcaUyshte8E
- 40. Polonaise https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zxIVwU4iaFA&list=OLAK5uy_ln72w6Qr65w7vTiyTWI2Ke46N12S0XGsM
- 42. Swing Song https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1n33X5lyKSU&list=PL8el21DD62rDgGY6nwy5ZLb1Wu0FwefFj
- 44. Chanson de la Tristesse à la Chopin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHSkS4iLkmM
- 45. Galop Brillante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SdzSq6t14c
- 48. The Mill https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1n33X5lyKSU&list=PL8el21DD62rDgGY6nwy5ZLb1Wu0FwefFj
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
|
Locations |
|
Piano |
Rosemary Tuck |
Marco Polo 8.223700 |
CD |
UK |
1993 |
|
BL, NX, PD, TM |
At
Parting
From 1907. An unusually dramatic love song, where the
second stanza is set to an obsessive rhythm over intense harmonies. Some of the music was re-used in The
Golden Wedding, from the suite In a Lovers’ Garden.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
The realisation
replaces the voice with violin. Click
here. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/At parting for
violin sync.mp3
Au Village, op.18, by “Anton Vodorinski”
A sophisticated rustic dance
for piano, dating from around 1906.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
Click
here to hear the realisation. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Au
village for piano sync.mp3
Ave Maria
Arranged from The Sacred Hour by the composer.
Weissmann’s
1930 recording of Bells across the Meadows includes a chorus singing lines
from the poem Ave Maria.
|
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
|
Orfeón Unión Orensana, Salgado
Valdés (organ) |
Diapason
54 9046 |
LP |
Spain |
1980 |
|
|
Awake!
Awake! Put on thy Strength: jubilee anthem
An occasional piece
for the 60th anniversary of Victoria’s reign in 1897. The three
sections are Awake! Awake! – Thou hast giv’n him
his heart’s desire – Our alleluias now we raise
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
In the realisation,
the choir is replaced by oboe, bassoons and trombones, while the tenor solo is
taken by a horn. Click here. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Awake awake
sync.mp3
webpage revised 7 May 2023