Baisers d’Amour: idylle, by “Geoffrey Kaye”
Piano piece from
1924.
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Label |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
TM, PD |
Click here to hear it. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Baisers
d'amour for piano sync.mp3
Ballade
This rambling piano piece was performed
at Trinity College of Music on 23rd May 1898.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2018 |
TM, PD |
To hear this realisation, click here
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Ballade
orch synth.mp3
Be
Strong! All Ye People: harvest anthem
Probably written for
Harvest Festival at St John’s Church, Wimbledon, in the autumn on 1897. The sections are: Be strong, all ye people
– The Lord shall open unto thee – Then worship Him, our harvest king (words
almost certainly by Florence Hoare, but unacknowledged) – Be strong
(reprise).
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
TM, PD |
In the realisation, the
choir is replaced by trombones. Click to hear it. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Be
strong sync.mp3
Behold!
He Cometh: Christmas anthem
For Christmas 1897? The sections are: Behold! He cometh – Fear
thou not, o Zion – Awake! Awake! – Behold! Behold!
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Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
TM, PD |
In the realisation, the
voices are replaced by oboes, bassoon and trombones. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Behold
he cometh sync.mp3
Behold!
Upon The Mountains: anthem for Christmas
Probably intended
for the choir of St John’s, Wimbledon, at Christmas 1896. The three sections are: Behold! Upon the
mountains – Far above His star doth shine – Sing unto God
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
TM, PD |
In the realisation,
the choir is replaced by trombones, and soloists by oboe and bassoon. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Behold
upon the mountains sync.mp3
Believe Me True
1897 song, words by
Florence Hoare.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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Song with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL, PD, TM |
Click here to hear this
recording http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
A Birthday Greeting: intermezzo
“Composed
in honour of the birthday of H.R.H. the Princess Elizabeth of York, to whom, by
special permission, it is most respectfully dedicated, April 21st 1932”. The work was published in 1933.
The
original orchestration was amended, probably in the late 1940s. Most changes were to the percussion part, and
the tempo was revised from Allegretto con moto to Andante moderato.
Composer’s synopsis
The
greeting of the birds. The greeting of
the bells. Parental devotion. The joyous chimes.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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Orchestra |
Louis
Voss Grand Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1005 |
CP
350 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Apr
37] |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue “Hillingdon Orchestra” |
-
Decca F 7502 |
CP 350 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[June
40?] |
|
(TM
CAS) |
|
Re-issue |
-
Pearl GEMM CD 9968 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|||
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Orchestra |
Vienna
State Opera Orchestra, Aliberti |
Westminster
WP 6082 |
|
LP |
US |
[1958]rec.June 57 |
|
(TM
CD) |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WPT 132 |
|
4-track tape |
US |
1960 |
|
|
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Organ |
Michael
Hendron (Mason & Hamliln
chapel organ) |
private
recording |
|
Web |
US |
2020 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Yates |
Dutton Epoch CDLX 7407 |
|
CD |
UK |
2023 |
|
TM |
Decca
re-issued several Bosworth recordings with new artist details. This recording adopts the fastish tempo of
crotchet = 128, and follows the original scoring but
adds harp and omits celesta. There is a
cut of 18 bars in the section marked “The joyous chimes.”
Aliberti uses the revised orchestration, with a glockenspiel
playing both its own part and the tubular bell part. His tempo is crotchet = 92. Curiously, the
track is listed on the sleeve of the World Record Club re-issue (TP 359), but is not included in those copies of the actual disc
I’ve found. You can hear this recording as background music to our home page at
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/
Yates
uses the original orchestration, including bird-whistle, glockenspiel
and tubular bells. His main tempo is
crotchet = 78, which seems a very slow interpretation of Allegretto con moto.
Hear
Michael Hendron at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY2DNkHuSrs
Blessed
Be The Man: anthem for Hospital Sunday
This anthem dates
from around the year 1900. Hospital
Sunday is sometimes celebrated on the last Sunday in January. The sections are:Blessed be the man – Sell that thou
hast – Because so much to us He brought – Be Thou exalted, Lord.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
TM, PD |
In the realisation,
the vocal parts are played by oboes, bassoons and trombones. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Blessed
be the man sync.mp3
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
This setting of
Shakespeare’s song in As You Like it was performed by Giuseppe Villa and
the composer at Trinity College London on 23rd May 1898. The review in The Musical Times commented
“a
bold setting of "Blow, blow, thou wintry wind" was specially
successful”.
However,
the same journal wrote of the 1923 recording
“I wish this fine singer had chosen
a less fussy and pretentious setting of the Shakespeare lyric”.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Song with orchestra |
Norman
Allin (b), orchestra, Ketèlbey |
Columbia
L 1474 |
76865 |
12” 78 |
UK |
[May
23] |
June
23 p.42, Aug 23 p.51, Mar 25 p.368 |
BL,
TM, (TM CAS) |
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110869 |
CD |
UK |
2003 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
|||
|
Song with orchestra |
Norman
Allin (b), orchestra, Raybould |
Columbia
L 1474, not issued |
WAX 2623-1, 2623-2 |
12” 78 |
UK |
rec.20th
Apr 27 |
both takes “rejected 8th
Aug 27” |
|
|
Song with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL, PD, TM |
Allin was a basso profundo, and sings the song in a
cavernous B minor. Dempsey is a tenor,
and chooses an embittered G minor.
Hear Allin at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UBTb28z_6s , Dempsey
at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
Bolero, by “Raoul Clifford”
This piece for violin and
piano won a prize in the violin magazine Strings,
and was published in 1894.
A work for flute with the same title (under Ketèlbey’s own name) was performed at the Palace Cinema in Arbroath in 1925. Circumstantial evidence suggests that this is the same work, although no copy has ever been found.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2018 |
TM, PD |
To hear the violin version,
click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Bolero
for violin and piano synth.mp3
To hear a reconstructed flute
version, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Bolero
for flute and piano synth.mp3
Bosworth’s Loose Leaf
Film-Play Music Series
These short descriptive
pieces were published in 1924-25 to give the orchestra appropriate music to
play in the pit of the silent cinema.
Many were assembled from a collection of even shorter pieces for piano
published in 1916 under the title New Moving Picture Music. Orchestration was by A.W. Leggett.
From 1937 the music
publisher Bosworth began issuing recordings of works in their catalogue. These were not only of interest to the
general public, but were also aiming at promoting the works as background music
for radio, films, and later television.
This genre became known as “library music”.
Of Ketèlbey’s 18 pieces in
the Film-Play Music Series, all but one were recorded. The 10” discs often contained 4 works, which
usually had to be drastically cut to be fitted in – no aesthetic problem for
music which was only meant to be played as background!
- 1. Dramatic Agitato
“for
general use, struggles, excitement”
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1033 |
CP 436 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Apr
38?] |
WC,
(TM CD) |
|
|
|
Re-issue “Heroic Struggle” |
- Soho
Archive SOHOA 114 |
|
CD |
|
2015 |
|
|
There are five sections – Vivace, Marcato, Drammatico, Agitato
and Patetico. This recording cuts
the Drammatico section (22 bars), and can be heard at
- 2. Amaryllis
“Graceful
Dance (for light, pretty scenes)”
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1010 |
CP 360 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Apr
37] |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 217 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
“Ballet
elegante” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 128 |
|
CD |
|
2016 |
|
|
BC 1010 was issued as part of
"4 Cameos", which were four works crammed on to one 10” disc. To achieve this, 16 bars of reprised
material and 8 bars of the coda are cut.
A harp is added to the scoring.
It can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AtokN2FDM&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=10
- 3. Arabian Nights
“for
oriental scenes”
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth BC 1040 |
CP
440 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[June 38?] |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 218 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
Recorded
complete.
- 4. Processional March
“triumphal
& pageants, ceremonial scenes, etc.”
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1047 |
CP 471 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Sept
38?] |
WC,
(TM CD) |
There
are 3 sections, played A – B – A – C – A – B – A. This recording plays just the A and C
sections.
- 5. True Love
“sentimental
and sad scenes”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1111 |
CP 758 or 759 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1941?] |
WC,
(TM CD) |
There
are three sections, played A – B – A – C – A.
This recording plays just the A and C sections.
- 6. Mysterious
(=Mysterioso)
“for weird,
uncanny and apprehensive situations” The title appears variously as Mysterious, Mysterioso and Mystery
in the publisher’s archive.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1069 |
CP 436 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[July
39] |
Aug
39 p.113 |
WC |
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 218 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
“Haunted Mansion” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 103 |
|
CD |
|
2012 |
|
|
This recording makes a short cut of repeated
material. It can be heard at https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-de/search?q=ketelbey&qtext=ketelbey&vtag=1&vwave=1&vdesc=1&ktype=9
- 7. Comedy
“for race
and motor scenes, crowds and lively situations”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1034 |
CP 437 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Apr
38?] |
(TM
CD) |
|
|
Orchestra |
Tin
Pan Alley Orchestra, Barnard |
private
recording |
CAS |
UK |
Oct
96 |
TM |
||
|
Orchestra |
Pelly
Concert Orchestra, Barnard |
private
recording |
CD |
UK |
[2005] |
TM |
The International
Radio Orchestra recording makes 3 cuts, reducing the 160 bar
piece by 48 bars.
- 8. The Wanderer’s
Return: reverie
“for home scenes, sunrise, etc., & sentimental situations”
The work was later revised to include a part
for choir.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
mp3, wav |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
The realisation is
based on the original version for full orchestra, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Wanderer’s
return for orchestra sync.mp3
- 9. Storm Music
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1008 |
CP 348 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Apr
37] |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 217 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
“Daredevils” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 103 |
|
CD |
|
2012 |
|
|
|
Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
|
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
|
TM, PD |
The
recording is massively cut. Of the four
sections, the first two (44 bars) are omitted; there is also a cut of 7 bars in
the coda. It can be heard at
McCanna’s
complete realisation is of the piano version.
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Storm music
for piano sync.mp3
- 10. Love's
Awakening
“for love
scenes and sentimental situations”
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1166 |
CP 1096 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1943] |
(TM CD) |
|
|
|
Re-issue
“Tender
Heart” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 128 |
|
CD |
|
2016 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Tin
Pan Alley Orchestra, Barnard |
private
recording |
CAS |
UK |
Oct
96 |
TM |
||
|
Orchestra |
Pelly
Concert Orchestra, Barnard |
private
recording |
CD |
UK |
[2005] |
TM |
||
|
Orchestra |
Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra |
Aspidistra “Beguine &
Bugatti Step” |
|
CD |
UK |
2015 |
LMS Spring
16 |
|
|
Pianola |
Themodisc 30518, Adam Ramet |
private
recording |
|
web |
UK |
2022 |
|
|
The International Radio Orchestra adds a harp to the scoring. There are three cuts, a total of 19 bars. It
can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG9lT80g_kQ&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=40
Hear
Ramet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDyVpDPHmWk&list=PL1YBeOI62FT9AAgLrbVth2g2mWPUFlIqD&index=10
- 11. Rhapsody Appassionata
“for tense
situations”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth BC 1012 |
CP
361 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Apr 37] |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 218 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
“Condemned” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 111 |
|
CD |
|
2013 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Tin
Pan Alley Orchestra, Barnard |
private
recording |
CAS |
UK |
Oct
96 |
TM |
||
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
|
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
|
PD, TM |
The piece has 3 sections,
played A – B – C – A – B, with the reprise of A re-orchestrated with altered
rhythm, and the reprise of B ending differently. The International Radio Orchestra’s lumpy
recording omits the first three sections, and just plays the two reprised
sections. It can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDqqBgBEmU8&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=39
McCanna’s realisation is of the complete
orchestral version, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Rhapsody appassionata for orch sync.mp3
- 12. Agitato Furioso
“for riot,
tumult, storms, etc.”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1017 |
CP 387 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1937] |
Nov
37 p.255 |
WC |
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 217 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue “Search Party” |
- Soho Archive SOHOA 111 |
|
CD |
|
2013 |
|
|
Recorded complete, apart from omitting two
straight repeats. Hear it at
- 13. Fate
“for tragic,
intense and heavy scenes”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
Louis
Voss Grand Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1018 |
CP 385 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1937] |
Nov
37 p.255 |
WC |
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 217 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
“Torment and Grief” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 114 |
|
CD |
|
2015 |
|
|
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
|
mp3, wav |
UK |
2019 |
|
PD, TM |
In the Voss recording, the two sections, Solemnly and Pathétique,
are cut by roughly half each. Hear it at https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-de/search?q=ketelbey&qtext=ketelbey&vtag=1&vwave=1&vdesc=1&ktype=9
The McCanna realisation is
based on the full orchestral score, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Fate
for orchestra sync.mp3
- 14. Tempest
“for
storms, hurries and agitato scenes”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1021 |
CP 386 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1937] |
Nov
37 p.255 |
WC |
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 217 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
“Storm Warning” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 114 |
|
CD |
|
2015 |
|
|
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
|
mp3, wav |
UK |
2019 |
|
PD, TM |
The piece has 6 sections; the International Radio Orchestra cuts the
third and fourth, a total of 32 bars. Hear it at https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-de/search?q=ketelbey&qtext=ketelbey&vtag=1&vwave=1&vdesc=1&ktype=9
The McCanna realisation is
based on the full orchestral score, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Tempest
for orchestra sync.mp3
- 15. Lament
“for sad, solemn and pathetic scenes”. See also In Memoriam
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1047 |
CP 468 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Sept
38?] |
WC,
(TM CD) |
|
|
|
Re-issue “Sad
Scene” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 130 |
|
CD |
|
2016 |
|
|
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
|
mp3, wav |
UK |
2019 |
|
PD, TM |
The piece has three sections, played A – B – A – C – A, with A varied
each time; the International Radio Orchestra omits A1, B, the first half of C,
and half of A3. Hear them at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzdT3Yc5Pk&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=33
The McCanna realisation is
based on the full orchestral score, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Lament
for orchestra sync.mp3
- 16. Danse diabolique
“for savage
scenes, and native war-dances, hurries and tumult and storms”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth BC 1039 |
CP
439 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[June 38?] |
WC |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Bosworth BPM 218 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
“Fight to the Death” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 106 |
|
CD |
|
2012 |
|
|
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
|
mp3, wav |
UK |
2019 |
|
PD, TM |
The International Radio Orchestra omits the first section (40 bars) and
the Da Capo. Hear them at https://www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-de/search?q=ketelbey&qtext=ketelbey&vtag=1&vwave=1&vdesc=1&ktype=9
The McCanna realisation is
based on the full orchestral score, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Danse
Diabolique for orchestra sync.mp3
- 17. Adagio Cantabile
“in the style of an old master (for quiet serious, reflective scenes)”.
For later versions of this
piece, see Old World Romance, and the short organ arrangements In
Memoriam and Movement in Classical Style.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Coountry |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1017 |
CP 387 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1937] |
Nov
37 p.255 |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Bosworth BPM 217 |
CD |
UK |
2001 |
TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
“Tragic Weepie” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 130 |
|
CD |
|
2016 |
|
|
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
|
mp3, wav |
UK |
2019 |
|
PD, TM |
This piece has 3 sections, played
A – B – C – A, with the final A being newly orchestrated; the International
Radio Orchestra includes only the final A
section, and can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prff7fAwCXI&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=36
The McCanna realisation is
based on the full orchestral score, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Adagio
cantabile for orchestra sync.mp3
- 18. Bacchanale de Montmartre
“for
cabaret, orgy, and riotous continental scenes”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
International
Radio Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1012 |
CP 363 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Apr
37] |
WC,
(TM CD) |
|
|
Orchestra |
anon |
Bosworth
BD 105 |
CP 602 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[July
39] |
Aug
39 p.113 |
|
|
|
Re-issue “Victory
Salute” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 132 |
|
CD |
|
2016 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Tin
Pan Alley Orchestra, Barnard |
private
recording |
CAS |
UK |
Oct
96 |
TM |
||
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
|
mp3, wav |
UK |
2019 |
|
PD, TM |
This piece has the basic structure
Intro – A – B – A – C – Intro – A – A.
The recording on BC 1012
omits the first 104 bars, and starts with the lead into the second statement of
the A section. It then omits the reprised introduction and 9 bars of the final
A section.
The recording on BD 105 is
just a 7-second snippet from the Trio, together with 14 other fragments,
to be used as “Sound titles”. Hear it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCiJ6zB4tRs&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=35
The McCanna realisation is
based on the full orchestral score, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Bacchanale
de Montmartre for orchestra sync.mp3
Bow Bells: fox-trot
When
it appeared in 1920, this cheerful piece was advertised as a “fox-trot
extraordinary”.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
London
Dance Orchestra, Windeatt |
Columbia
2983 |
69805 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Dec
20] |
Sound Wave Dec 20 p.938 |
|
|
Orchestra |
Archibald
Joyce's Dance Orchestra |
Vocalion X 9042 |
02238 |
10” 78 |
UK |
(rec.Feb 21) |
Sound Wave May 21p.295 |
|
|
Orchestra |
Homochord Dance Orchestra |
Homochord H 169 |
|
10” 78 |
UK |
?
by 1926 |
1926 catalogue |
|
|
Piano |
Markus
Staab |
private
recording |
|
|
Germany |
2014 |
|
|
|
Synthesized |
Stephen
Berry |
private
recording |
|
mp3 |
UK |
2016 |
|
TM |
|
Piano |
-
(Adam Ramet) |
Themodist T 24103 B |
|
roll |
|
?
[ca.1920] |
|
|
The piano roll adds a few
extra semiquavers, but curiously irons out the dance rhythm of the descending
bell scales. It can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrXW3XD4vR0
Staab’s performance can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylv5Sk5vgU0
To hear Berry’s orchestral
realisation, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Bow
Bells orch synth.mp3
The
contemporary recordings were reviewed in the journal Sound Wave. Englund gives Ketèlbey himself as the
conductor of 2983.
Broken Toys
An unusual song on the theme
of growing up, from 1901.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private recording |
mp3, wav |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
This realisation replaces the
voice with oboe. Click to hear it http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Broken toys
for oboe sync.mp3
Webpage last updated 12 May
2023