I Call You from the Shadows
This
song was first published in 1912; a later edition has a few changes, but the
first edition is used by Morgan Kingston.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Country |
Format |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
|
Song
with orchestra |
Morgan
Kingston (t), orchestra |
Columbia
369 |
6294 |
UK |
12”
78 |
[Apr
13] rec.1912 |
BL |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110869 |
UK |
CD |
2003 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
|||
|
Song with orchestra |
Hughes
Macklin., orchestra |
Edison
Blue Amberol 23205 |
UK |
cylinder |
[Dec
13] |
WC |
The
Naxos transfer is in Ab major, which corresponds to the published
version for high voice. At the final
cadence, Kingston ignores the three alternative notes for the word “back” (Bb,
Eb and high Bb), and instead sings a G. He then changes the final words from “to me”
to “my love”, and the orchestra omits the final two bass notes.
Macklin
sings the song in Bb major, with a high C near the end. Listen to him (and excuse the damaged
cylinder) at www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/I
call you - Macklin.mp3
I Dream of All the Worlds
Song published in
1937, with words by the composer himself.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Song with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL,
TM |
This recording can be heard
at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
Idylle Champêtre
This piece for clarinet and
piano was deposited in the British Museum in January 1897.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesizer |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2016 |
TM |
To hear this realisation,
click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Idylle
Champetre for Clarinet and Piano synyh.mp3
In a Camp of the Ancient Britons: (Worlebury
Camp, - Weston-super-Mare. A.D.47 and Present-day): tone picture
The following account of the origin of the work is given the composer in
the article In a Monastery Garden, in Music Masterpieces part 12
(18th March 1926) page 183:
My tone-picture In a Camp of the Ancient Britons was inspired by
a visit to Weston-super-Mare. When I saw
the gay promenade and in the background the old ramparts (Worlebury)
carrying the mind back to the time of the Roman legions and the Druids, I felt
the vividness of the contrast, and I wrote music that, I hope, conveys the
atmosphere of the old drama, gradually merging into present-day brightness and
gaiety.
In 1933 the music was used as
background to a documentary film Castles and Fisher Folk (1933),
commissioned by Cadbury’s.
Composer’s synopsis
This tone-picture
represents the Reverie of a visitor to a seaside resort adjacent to the site of
an ancient British Camp. The piece
begins with - The Sacred Grove of the Druids, followed by, The Invocation
before the Battle, the March of the Ancient Britons, the Advance of the Roman
Legions, the Battle and defeat of the Britons and their Retreat. These themes portray a picture passing
through the mind of the visitor.
Imperceptibly the Invocation theme now merges into a Waltz, as if being
played by a band on the front which brings the listener to the spirit of the
present-day. With an exuberant climax
typifying the holiday-mood the piece is brought to a lively conclusion.
(It may be interesting to note that the Druids' music and the Ancient
Britons' march are founded on the authentic Hypodorian Mode).
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
orchestra,
Ketèlbey |
Columbia
9055 |
AX 1064, 1065 |
12” 78 |
UK |
rec.July 25, not issued |
||
|
Orchestra |
Albert W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra |
WAX
4582, 4583 |
12” 78, 2 sides |
UK |
[Jan
30] rec.Jan 29 |
PD,
(TM CAS) |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Pearl GEMM CD 9968 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110869 |
CD |
UK |
2003 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue |
- Revivendo RVPC 004 |
|
CD |
Brazil |
|
|
|
|
Organ |
Michael
Hendron, Mason & Hamlin chapel organ,
"Invocation" |
private
recording |
|
Web |
US |
2020 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Yates |
Dutton Epoch CDLX 7407 |
|
CD |
UK |
2023 |
|
TM |
For
some reason, the 1925 recording was unsatisfactory and never issued, but the
1929 one is excellent. There is just one
small cut of 8 bars from the Invocation section, and in the Retreat of the
Britons the composer opts for a repeated drum beat on Timpani rather than Side
Drum.
Yates
also uses the Timpani at that point, and records the
work complete and very elegantly. The repeated
tubular bell figure in the opening section is to my ears inaudible, despite
being marked mf against the pp of the wind and muted strings.
Hendron plays a short extract published in an Album for American Organ in
1939. See him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUTJlySqdMs
In a Fairy Realm: suite
The suite was first
performed at Harrogate on 23rd September 1927.
One of the melodies from the Queen-Fairy’s Dance had previously been
part of a flute solo called Scherzo de Concert. The second section of The Gnomes' March
recalls the rhythm of a choral piece with the title The Elves' Dance, where
it sets the anonymous words
By the moon we sport and play
With the night begins our day
As we frisk the dew doth fall
Trip it, little urchins
all.
Composer’s synopsis
1. The Moonlit
Glade. One has to imagine a darkened
secluded woodland scene with just a ray of moonlight. The fairies begin to assemble very quietly,
the rustle of the trees swayed by the wind precedes the entrance of the
King-Fairy; he holds forth to his assembled subjects in an oration of gradually
rising import; on its completion the music dies away to suggest that the
fairies are duly obedient to his wishes.
2. The
Queen-Fairy Dances. The Horn and
Flute announce the entrance of the Queen-Fairy; she dances to the strains of a
pipe, then her attendants join in when the music becomes louder; this is
followed by another dance for the Queen alone, a delicate movement at first,
but becoming louder again when all the fairies join in; a soft Horn call leads
back to the original theme, the Queen-Fairy finally tripping lightly off the
scene.
3. The Gnomes’ March. The
fairies all execute a quaint little march in whimsically stiff manner at first,
but becoming later a little more frolicsome.
The ugly gnomes have an episode to themselves represented by muted Brass
played heavily, after which the first part is resumed in the same manner as
before, with the addition of a little chromatic run in the celeste, suggesting
that one of the fairies is a little late getting into position. After working up to a forte climax it
gradually dies away and one loud chord from the full orchestra brings the Suite
to a conclusion.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
Albert W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra |
WAX
3222, 3241, 3242 |
12”
78, 3 sides |
UK |
[July
28] |
July
28 p.61 |
BL,
PD, (TM CAS) |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110848 |
CD |
UK |
2002 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue |
- Revivendo RVPC 004 |
|
CD |
Brazil |
|
|
|
|
Orchestra |
[Grosses Symphonie Orchester],Weissmann |
Odeon O 6562 |
Be 8987 |
10”
78 |
Germany |
[1930] |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Louis
Voss Grand Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1130/1 |
CP 933, 934, 935 |
10”
78, 3 sides |
UK |
[1940] |
BL,
WC, (TM CD) |
|
|
|
Re-issue of Movt 3 “Busy Gnomes” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 103 |
|
CD |
UK |
2012 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Guild GLCD 5203 |
|
CD |
UK |
2013 |
|
|
|
|
Re-issue of Movt.2 “Young Ballerina” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 113 |
|
CD |
|
2013 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
BBC Concert Orchestra, Yates |
Dutton Epoch CDLX 7407 |
|
CD |
UK |
2023 |
|
TM |
|
Orchestra |
Wien,
Thallmeyer |
Columbia ? |
? |
Germany
|
? |
(MMU) |
Ketelbey’s recording is complete, and the delicate scoring is recorded
very clearly. The third movement can also be heard at http://www.mgthomas.co.uk/Soundfiles/Orchestral/Soundfiles-Orchestral.htm
Louis Voss makes two short
cuts in the first movement (20 bars), one lengthy one in the second (32 bars),
and just an 8-bar repeat in the third.
He has a hyperactive harp. Movt 2 can be heard
at https://www.kapagama.fr/fr-fr/discover/albums/10602/comedy-cartoon , Movt. 3 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9VZ5NcjGvM&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=14
Yates’s recording is also
complete, and beautifully played. The
important triangle notes at the beginning of The Queen Fairy Dances are
inaudible.
Details of the Weissmann recording are incomplete and suspect. They could only refer to a single movement,
and this matrix number is also used by In the Moonlight..
In a Lovers’ Garden: suite (on melodies from the composer's songs)
This suite was compiled in
1925 from a number of earlier songs.
A Song of Love uses melodies from Under the Starlight and My Heart Still Clings to You
A
Garden Fête is an orchestral version of
Fairy Butterfly
Composer's synopsis
1. A Song of
Love. Two young lovers are lingering in the sun-lit garden,
and amidst singing of birds they exchange ardent thoughts and caressing
glances.
2. The Golden
Wedding. Two old people are sitting in the garden, where they
first plighted their throth, the bells of an adjacent
church remind them of their wedding day.
3. A Garden Fête. Lovers
young and old mingle in one joyous throng at the garden fête on a summer's day,
laughter and gaiety reign over all.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
Palm
Court Theatre Orchestra, Godwin |
Chandos
FBCD 2002 |
CD |
UK |
1998 |
BL,
PD, TM |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Chandos CHAN 6676 |
CD |
UK |
2004 |
|
NX |
The
Palm Court Theatre Orchestra uses a small wind section and solo strings, and
includes a prominent piano.
- 1. A Song of Love
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
Palm
Court Theatre Orchestra, Godwin |
Chandos
CHA 24135 |
CD |
UK |
2006 |
BL |
Re-issued
from complete recording
- 2. The Golden
Wedding
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Carillon |
Trevor Workman |
Bournville Carillon BC000005 |
CD |
UK |
2003 |
TM |
Workman uses his own
arrangement, which was recorded at a live performance on Bournville Carillon,
Birmingham, on 9th August 2003.
In Holiday Mood: suite
The suite was first performed on 12th February
1938 at the Kingsway Hall, London.
1. On the Promenade
2. Down the Stream
3. The Illuminated Fete
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
|
Orchestra |
London
Palladium Orchestra, Greenwood |
HMV
C 3023/4 |
2EA
6511, 6512, 6513 |
12”
78, 3 sides |
UK |
[Aug
38] rec.June 38 |
Aug
38 p.118 |
BL |
|
|
Re-issue |
|
12”
78, 3 sides |
US |
[ca.1940?] |
|
PD |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Pearl GEMM CD 9968 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
BL.
PD, TM |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
1 DCD 7 |
CD |
UK |
VLM Winter 98 |
||||
|
|
Re-issue
of The Illuminated Fete |
- Guild GLCD 5228 |
|
CD |
UK |
2015 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Louis
Voss Grand Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1051 |
CP
493, 494 |
10”
78, 2 sides |
UK |
[Jan
39] |
Jan
39 p.342 |
TM |
|
Re-issue (Hillingdon Orchestra) |
-
Decca F 7850 |
CP 493, 494 |
10”
78, 2 sides |
UK |
[1951] |
July
41 p.36 |
BL |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110870 |
CD |
UK |
2004 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
|||
|
|
Re-issue
of Movt.1 “United
Front” |
-
Soho Archive SOHOA 127 |
|
CD |
UK |
2015 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Pelly
Concert O, Barnard |
private
recording |
CD |
UK |
[2005] |
TM |
||
|
Orchestra |
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Yates |
Dutton Epoch CDLX 7407 |
|
CD |
UK |
2023 |
|
TM |
The London Palladium Orchestra
uses saxophones in the first and third movements.
The Louis Voss Orchestra
makes massive cuts to fit the music on two ten-inch sides. On the Promenade cuts 106 out of 197
bars, though still retaining enough of each section to make musical sense. Down the Stream has 88 out of 111 bars
cut, with the second melody lost almost completely. The Illuminated Fete merely has two
small cuts totalling 46 out of 284 bars.
Hear the 3 movements at
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivzcX_3Jjs&list=OLAK5uy_nosgSLwQR0rQ9IdZNBzjiQ_h3J95inavo&index=2
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeLZrxk9Dk8&list=OLAK5uy_nosgSLwQR0rQ9IdZNBzjiQ_h3J95inavo&index=3
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8QSD7-hqhU&list=OLAK5uy_nosgSLwQR0rQ9IdZNBzjiQ_h3J95inavo&index=4
Yates is faithful to the
score. The celeste solo in Down the
Stream is played by Ben Dawson, and at that point the accompanying strings
play with mutes.
In Memoriam
This "commercial"
organ piece is based on Bosworth's Loose-Leaf Film Play Music 17 (Adagio
cantabile) and 15 (Lament).
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Organ |
Michael Hendron, Mason & Hamlin chapel organ |
private recording |
web |
US |
2020 |
|
Watch this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTRWC2YZjLw
In
Sweet Disguise
This 1899 song was “dedicated to, and sung by
Miss Lottie Siegenberg with the greatest success in
the musical comedy Skipped by the Light of the Moon”. The words are by “X”, and it is tempting
to see this as a kind of secret Valentine message from Albert to his future
wife, sealed with a kiss.
“If love should come in sweet disguise
Amid the flow’rs of June,
With merry step and laughing eyes
And voice with song a-tune.
How can my heart his strength discern
Or his wiles beware,
Such tender thoughts must wisdom spurn
Lest love be hiding there.”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
This realisation
replaces voice with violin, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/In sweet
disguise for violin sync.mp3
In
the Shadow of St Paul’s: reverie, by “Geoffrey Kaye”
1921 piano
solo. The first section uses the music
of the earlier song Love’s Appeal. The third section ha the caption The
Hymn in the Cathedral, underlaid with words “God our help in ages past”,
though the meter doesn’t fit!
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
Click to hear this. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/In the shadow
of St Paul's for piano sync.mp3
In
the Wild March Morning
Song from 1909, not
wild at all, but quite calm. A
forerunner of The Phantom Melody.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
Click here for the
realisation for cello and piano http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/In the wild
March morning for cello sync.mp3
In the Woodlands: dance-intermezzo
This piano piece was
published in 1921, and advertised thus:
“A charming dance-like piece essentially
"pianistic" in character (suitable equally for salon or
educational purposes) which trips along in graceful and fascinating manner to a
brilliant conclusion. A worthy rival to
similar pieces by Chaminade or Godard.”
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Review |
Locations |
|
Piano |
Rosemary Tuck |
Marco Polo 8.223699 |
CD |
UK |
1993 |
BL, NX, PD, TM |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Naxos 8.574299 |
CD |
|
2021 |
Awards
21 p.48 |
NX, TM |
|
Piano |
John Worfolk |
private recording |
web |
|
2014 |
|
|
|
Piano |
Markus Staab |
private recording |
web |
Germany |
2015 |
|
|
Hear Tuck at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjYlqNHlJ1s
Staab’s version can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h6bTC3AkBE
Worfolk can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzNENnfe0zw
Introductory
Voluntary
A rare Ketèlbey
piece for full organ, published first in 1894, then again in 1903. It was reworked as Meditation, one of
the 12 Original Voluntaries for American organ, also published in 1903 –
but by a different publisher.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD, TM |
This can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Introductory
voluntary for organ sync.mp3
An
Island Fair
1899 song with an
unusual structure: a gentle lullaby
theme for the “Land of Long-Ago,” is followed a long earnest coda to illustrate
passing through life to be reunited in heaven with past love.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom McCanna |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD, TM |
The realisation replaces the voice with an oboe. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Island fair
for oboe sync.mp3
The orchestral piece was
first broadcast on 21st July 1950, and is particularly subtle in its
use of instrumental colour, with a folk group of 3 mandolins and a guitar
appearing for just 12 bars. The piano version was published in the following
year, and has several cuts.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Piano |
Eric
Halstead |
private
recording |
web |
UK |
2003 |
(TM CD) |
|
Piano |
Markus
Staab |
private
recording |
web |
Germany |
2008 |
|
|
Synthesizer |
Stephen Berry |
private recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2016 |
TM |
The Halstead version is
available at http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/4904176-italian-twilight-by-ketelbey-mp3
The Staab
version can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl_G9xwEsFk
To hear Berry’s orchestral
realisation, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Italian
Twilight orch synth.mp3
webpage updated 10 May 2023