A Japanese Carnival (by “André de Basque")
Published in 1927.
For notes on André de Basque, see Elephants’ Parade.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
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Orchestra |
London Palladium Orchestra,
Crean |
OEA 2944-1 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Aug 36] |
Aug 36 p.121 |
BL, (TM CAS), (TM CD) |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Victor 27399 |
063835 |
10” 78 |
US |
[1941?] |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Bosworth Orchestra |
Bosworth BC 1003 |
CP 1995 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Apr 37] |
TM |
|
|
Brass band |
Callender's Band |
HMV BD 538 |
? |
10” 78 |
UK |
[May 38] |
May 38 p.519 |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Voz de su amo GY 573 |
OEA 1127 |
10” 78 |
Spain |
[1944] |
|
WC |
|
Re-issue |
- Guild Light Music GLCD
5117 |
CD |
UK |
2005 |
TM, (TM CD) |
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|
Piano |
Markus Staab |
private recording |
|
web |
Germany |
2009 |
|
|
|
Orchestra |
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Yates |
Dutton Epoch CDLX 7407 |
|
CD |
UK |
2023 |
|
TM |
The Callender’s Band recording
can be heard at http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/2872406
Staab’s version can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlGF_R29Etk
All three commercial
recordings are complete. Crean and Yates are briskest at 2’ 52”, Callender’s
Band next at 3’ 04” then the Bosworth Orchestra at 3” 16”. Yates does
not appear to have either a
glockenspiel or a triangle, but is nevertheless a very colourful performance.
La Joie de Vivre : caprice, op.33 (by “Anton Vodorinski”)
An energetic piano
piece from 1922, full of life but not so much joy.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Piano |
Rosemary Tuck |
Marco Polo 8.223700 |
CD |
UK |
1993 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
cd02 |
Hear this at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQghX-2uEzA&list=RDAMVMZQghX-2uEzA
Jungle Drums: patrol
A skilfully worked quick
march from 1926.
Composer’s synopsis
Drums of different sizes play an important part
in native ceremonies, and tribes are said to be able to converse secretly with
each other by means of the “drum-language”.
The drums are beaten by hand as well as with sticks, and during the
incessant drumming other natives drone a sort of dirge.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Military
band |
Homochord Military Band |
HH
9033-1 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[1926]
rec.30.9.26 |
Mar
27 p.421 |
(TM
CD) |
||
|
Military
band |
Band
of HM Grenadier Guards, Miller |
Columbia
9411 |
WAX
3321-2 |
12”
78 |
UK |
[June
28] |
July
28 p.67, MT 1928 p. 615 |
BL,
TM (TMmp3) |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Columbia 50124-D |
WAX 3321 |
12” 78 |
|
|
|
WC |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Beulah IPD 19 |
|
CD |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Albert
W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra, Ketèlbey |
WAX
4560 |
12”
78 |
UK |
[Dec
29] rec.Jan 29 |
Dec
29 p.321 |
BL,
(TM CAS) |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110869 |
CD |
UK |
2003 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
cd05 |
|||
|
Military
band |
Band
of HM Welsh Guards, Harris |
Broadcast
Twelve 5179 |
L
0438 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Sept
30] |
Sept
30 p.184 |
BL
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Flapper/Pearl PASTCD 9726 |
CD |
UK |
1991 |
VLM Summer 91 |
BL |
|||
|
Dance
band |
Don
Pedro & his Mexican Band |
Octacros 175 |
4675 |
10”
78 |
UK |
1934 |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue (Don
Pedro & his Mexicans) |
-
Octacros 658 |
4675 |
10”
78 |
UK |
1934 |
|
|
|
|
Orchestra |
Albert
W. Ketelbey & his Concert Orchestra, Ketèlbey |
DR 4757 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[Nov
40] |
Dec
40 p.154-5 |
BL,
PD, (TM CD) |
7808 |
|
|
Orchestra |
Regent
Classic Orchestra |
Bosworth
BC 1135 |
CP
867 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1941?] |
BL,
WC, (TM CD) |
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|
Orchestra |
Vienna
State Opera Orchestra, Aliberti |
Westminster
WP 6082 |
|
LP |
US |
[1958]
rec.June 57 |
|
(TM
CD) |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WST 15005 |
|
LP |
|
|
|
WC |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Westminster WGWS 18071 |
|
LP |
Australia |
1958 |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Sonotape SWB 7027 |
|
2-track
tape |
|
1958 |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Westminster WTP 132 |
|
4-track tape |
US |
1960 |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
-
World Record Club TP 359 |
|
LP |
US |
1963 |
|
BL,
PD |
lp12 |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Clave
18-1246 S |
|
LP |
Spain |
1971 |
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue
Orquesta sinfónica de Baviera, Jenssen |
- Dial Discos/Nevada ND 501312 |
|
LP |
Spain |
1978 |
|
WC, TM |
|
|
|
Re-issue Orquesta
sinfónica de Baviera, Jenssen |
- Dial Discos NC 501312 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1978] |
|
WC |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Westminster WGS 8139 |
|
LP |
US |
1981 |
|
TM |
|
|
|
Re-issue
Orquesta sinfónica de Baviera, Jenssen |
- Dial Discos/Doblon 102048 |
|
CAS |
Spain |
[1986] |
|
WC |
|
|
|
Re-issue Orquesta sinfónica de Baviera, Jenssen |
-
Dial Discos 960139 |
|
CD |
Spain |
1991 |
|
WC |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Voix de son maître 2CO 59392502 |
|
LP |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- World Record Club S 4743 |
|
LP |
Australia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Re-issue |
- Voix de son maître C 24592502 |
|
CAS |
France |
|
|
WC |
|
|
Orchestra |
Palm
Court Theatre Orchestra, Godwin |
Chandos
FBCD 2002 |
CD |
UK |
1998 |
BL,
PD, TM |
cd11 |
||
|
|
Re-issue |
Chandos
CHAN 6676 |
|
CD |
UK |
2004 |
|
NX |
|
Dempsey says the Homochord Military Band is conducted by Bert Firman.
One would expect a military
patrol to march at 132 steps a minute.
This is precisely the tempo of the recordings by Ketèlbey
(1929) and Godwin, while the 1940 Ketèlbey recording
is only slightly behind at 130. The Homochord Band, the Regent Classic Orchestra and Aliberti are all far slower at 122-124.
Both of the composer’s
recordings are cut, by 64 and 112 bars respectively, out of a total 309
bars. The Homochord
Band makes 3 cuts, totalling 114 bars.
The Regent Classic Orchestra makes even more, with a total of 133 bars.
The short section of “native
dirge” is barely audible in the two Ketèlbey
recordings, and the voices are completely absent from Homochord,
Aliberti and Regent.
The latter omits the final gong note, and in the final melody replaces
the bassoon with a beautifully played muted trombone.
Hear Aliberti's
recording at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDG4guJO8o&list=RDAMVM-dDG4guJO8o
The Grenadier Guards
recording is well recorded for its age, but surprisingly the drums are almost
inaudible. Hear the band at www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/jungle%20drums%20-%20Grenadiers.mp3
The Palm Court Theatre
Orchestra uses solo strings and has a small wind section lacking the prominent
bassoon, but it does include a harmonium to help fill out the chords. Curiously, in two places an important
countermelody is omitted entirely.
Keep Your Toys, Laddie Boy: story-song
The Columbia recording gives the title as Keep
Your Toys, Little Laddie Boy. This
song dates from just before the First World War, and in some ways anticipates
the conflict ahead.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Song
with orchestra |
Carrie
Herwin (c), orchestra,?Ketèlbey |
28826 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[June
14 |
BL,
(TM CD) |
||
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL,
PD, TM |
cd21 |
|
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
private
recording |
DVD |
UK |
rec.26.11.2009 |
PD, TM |
We
have the song as sung by a mother and a father.
Dempsey’s CD can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
Carrie
Herwin’s recording needs to be played at the right
speed to sound in Db major. Not
only does it sound best at this pitch, this was the key the orchestral
accompaniment for contraltos was published in. Her recording omits two short
orchestral passages, and one line of text.
Peter Dempsey records the song in F major.
Kilmoren = Kildoran
This song started
out in 1900 in the operetta The Wonder Worker, with the words Morning
was bright. It was soon given new
words by Clifton Bingham, and published under the new title Kildoran. Some fifty years later it was part of a batch
of early works being republished, and the title was changed to Kilmoren.
The name Kildoran seems only to exist in a
street in south London; perhaps Bingham mis-read Kildonan, a town on the Isle
of Arran in Scotland. There is a Kilmore
Quay in Ireland.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL,
PD, TM |
cd21 |
|
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
Kinema Music
“a
book of original, varied & descriptive incidental music specially composed
for use in picture theatres, consisting of slow, pathetic, lively & solemn
movements, hurries, &c. …”
By the time this collection
of 31 items for piano trio was published by Hammond in 1915, Ketèlbey had gained much experience in the orchestra
pit as musical director for revues, pantomimes and the silent cinema. A few years later the rival publisher
Bosworth produced a more lavish collection of Ketèlbey’s
cinema music, and it seems probable that Kinema
Music was then withdrawn from publication.
Nos 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 17, 20, 21, 22 & 23 were subsequently issued for
solo piano under the title A Woodland
Story, a set that has been excellently recorded by Rosemary Tuck. Only one copy each of the piano trio parts of
Kinema Music are known to exist –
piano in the UK, violin and cello in New Zealand (thanks to Brett Lowe for
contacting this website about them).
Composer’s preface
By the judicious mixture of
the various numbers contained in this book an appropriate and characteristic
accompaniment to almost any picture can be obtained. The Composer has purposely
refrained from filling the book with a lot of Waltzes and Galops, in order to
devote the space to really characteristic numbers. A special feature is
the music written for Conversations, Entrance Music, Final Tableaux,
(Situations which do not appear to be specially catered for in any other
publication), and a page of "Various effects". The book will
also be found to be of great service to the Musical Directors of Pantomimes,
etc. as a handy collection of incidental music…
The
piano part can be used alone, and the violin part is so fully cued that a
complete performance can be obtained with piano and violin only…
The
piano part is easily adaptable to the Harmonium or American Organ…
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD,
TM |
Click on the links to hear the realisations.
- 1. Love, Romance, etc. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM1 Love
Romance sync.mp3
- 2. Quiet River Scene - Love – Romance http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM2 Quiet
river scene sync.mp3
- 5. Plaintive - Love - Entreaty, etc. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM4-5 Pathetic
& Plaintive sync.mp3
- 6. Entrance Music: Light Comedian - Ingénue or Soubrette http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM6 Light
Comedian sync.mp3
- 10. Melodramatic (Mysterious) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM10
Melodramatic Mysterious sync.mp3
- 11. Melodramatic (for struggles, combats, etc.) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM11
Melodramatic for struggles sync.mp3
- 12. Melodramatic (Tragic) (also Final Tableau - Pathetic) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM12
Melodramatic Tragic sync.mp3
- 13. Melodramatic (Heroic) (also Final Tableau) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM13 Melodramatic Heroic sync.mp3
- 14. Grand March - Historical Scenes - Ceremonies, etc. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM14 Grand march sync.mp3
- 15. Street Scenes - Races - Travel (Trains, Motors, etc.) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM15 Street Scenes sync.mp3
- 16. Travel - Horses Galloping - Fair Scenes or Crowds http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM16 Travel
sync.mp3
- 17. Graceful Dance - Children - Pretty Scenes - Light Comedy http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM17 Graceful Dance sync.mp3
- 18. Music for Conversations (Comedy) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM18 Music for
conversations sync.mp3
- 19. Music for Conversations (Pathetic) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM19 Music for
conversations sync.mp3
- 20. Oriental - (Native Dances etc.) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM20 Oriental
sync.mp3
- 21. Scandinavian [also Running water (Stream, Waterfall)] http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM21
Scandinavian sync.mp3
- 22. Mexican or Spanish http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM22
Mexican sync.mp3
- 23. Italian
http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM23 Italian
sync.mp3
- 24. Russian http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM24 Russian
sync.mp3
- 25. Plantation (Negro) (and Light Comedy) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM25
Plantation sync.mp3
- 26. Irish (and Plaintive for Love Scene) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM26 Irish
sync.mp3
- 27. Scotch http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM27 Scotch
sync.mp3
- 28. Pathetic. Death of an
Adult, etc. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM28 Pathetic
sync.mp3
- 29. Hurry (for Storm or Battle) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM29 Hurry for
storm sync.mp3
- 30. Hurry (for Mobs or Fire Scene) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/KM30 Hurry for
mobs sync.mp3
This realisation includes
most of the optional repeats, in some cases taking the liberty of omitting an
instrumental part. Pizzicato effects have been assigned to mandolin and
mandocello, or to two banjos in no.25.
The “Fire Bell” instruction in no.30 has an added bell effect. No.31
(Various effects - Chimes, Birds,
Cuckoo, Cock Crow, Donkey Braying, Thunder and Lightning (or Magic change),
Flourish of Trumpets, Fairies or Mandoline, Organ, Ticking of a Clock) has been omitted, as beyond the capabilities of the available
software. Technical limitations have
also ruled out spreading chords, as well as some crescendos and diminuendos.
King Cupid
This song would have been
sung by Florence Smithson in the pantomime Puss in Boots at the Drury
Lane Theatre, a production which ran from 27th December 1915. Cupid was a character in that pantomime. The subject matter and musical style are
very similar to the song The Pipes of Pan, which had made Smithson
famous in The Arcadians (1904).
The sheet music was not published until 1945.
Words as published by
the composer (Florence Smithson varies these a little)
Cupid is a Fairy King,
Holding court in magic ring,
Over all he reigns supreme,
Whether waking or a-dream,
Ah.
For his sceptre so they say:
Just a moonbeam’s silver ray!
Old and young come ‘neath his spell,
Why it is we cannot tell?
Ah.
So you lads and lassies gay,
Don’t attempt to run away,
You shall not escape his dart,
For he captures ev’ry
heart.
Ah.
Tho’ of ancient pedigree,
Cupid has no pride, not he!
For his friends are ev’ry
sort,
All are welcome to his court.
Ah.
Old and young or rich and poor,
Of his greeting may be sure,
Over all he reigns above,
Cupid is the King of Love.
Ah.
So you lads and lassies gay,
Don’t attempt to run away,
You shall not escape his dart,
For he captures ev’ry
heart.
Ah.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Song
with orchestra |
Florence
Smithson (s), orchestra, Ketèlbey |
Columbia
L 1030 |
6725 |
12”
78 |
UK |
[May
16] |
BL |
||
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110848 |
CD |
UK |
2002 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
cd04 |
For the Naxos CD, the
original recording was played at 78rpm, putting the piece in D major. The voice
sound sounds fairly natural at this speed and pitch. The sheet music was published in both C and
D.
Smithson replaces 3 bars of
the published cadenza with 7 different bars, and the final instrumental
accompaniment on celeste also differs. Hear
it at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ghGkLXGMNKw
Knights of the King: ceremonial grand march
The military band version was published in 1930, and
was played by the Band
of HM Royal Horse Guards, Dunn at the
Memorial Service for Lieutenant-Colonel A.C. Turnor
in June that year. The song version
appeared two years later.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Military
band |
Band
of HM Royal Horse Guards, Dunn |
Columbia
DX 192 |
WAX
5821 |
12”
78 |
UK |
[Jan 31] rec.Oct 30 |
Jan
31 p.406 |
BL,
TM |
|
|
Re-issue |
- Columbia Cinema Service YBX 45 |
WAXD 117 |
12” 33 |
UK |
[Aug 31] |
||||
|
Re-issue |
-
International Military Music Society IMMS 101 |
LP |
UK |
[1984?] |
VLM Winter 84 |
BL |
|||
|
Re-issue |
-
Naxos 8.110870 |
CD |
UK |
2004 |
BL,
NX, TM |
||||
|
Song
with orchestra |
Raymond
Newell (bt), chorus, orchestra |
Columbia
DB 931 |
CA
12668 |
10” 78 |
UK |
[Nov
32] |
Nov
32 p.212 |
BL |
|
|
Re-issue |
-
Pearl GEMM CD 9968 |
CD |
UK |
1992 |
BL,
PD, TM |
cd13 |
|||
|
Military
band |
massed
bands of the Aldershot Command (Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo) |
HMV
C 2768 |
2EA
332-2 |
12”
78 |
UK |
[Aug
35] |
Aug
35 p.109 |
BL |
|
|
Pianola |
|
Themodist 30699 |
|
Roll |
UK |
ca.1935 |
|
|
|
|
Military
band |
Band
of Queen's Royal Regiment, Barsotti |
Bosworth
BB 52 |
CP
1156 |
10”
78 |
UK |
[1943?] |
WC,
(TM CD) |
||
|
Military
band |
Wembley
Military Tattoo Massed Bands, Sharpe |
Castle
Pulse PLS CD 180 |
CD |
UK |
rec.June 1977 |
Ketèlbey recorded many of his own compositions, but few of the
artists who first performed his works got to record them. The Royal Horse Guards give a recording that
is authoritative both in origin and in performance.
Newell’s version omits the
second verse along with its chorus.
Barsotti cuts the Da Capo and
Coda, reducing the march to half its length.
He is one of those bandmasters who believe that most notes should be
played short in a march, irrespective of the composer’s markings.
The Aldershot Tattoo only has
an excerpt from this piece.
Sharpe’s recording is
entitled Knights of the Queen, and is arranged by the conductor.
Hear
the Royal Horse Guards at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0ZfiBTPnE&list=OLAK5uy_nosgSLwQR0rQ9IdZNBzjiQ_h3J95inavo&index=18
Hear the pianola played by
Adam Ramet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNGUYvMB31M
The Knight’s Return
1899 song, words by
Charles Kingsley, written for Ketèlbey’s friend
Giuseppe Villa.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL,
PD, TM |
cd21 |
This CD can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
In June 1914 this powerful piano piece won a $100 prize for the best pianoforte concert piece awarded by an American music magazine. It was published as “Prélude Dramatique” under Ketèlbey’s own name. In 1924 it was re-issued in London in a slightly simplified edition under the new title Largo Serioso, by Vodorinski, with no mention of the prize.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Piano |
Eric
Halstead |
private
recording |
www |
UK |
2003 |
(TM
CD) |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
PD,
TM |
Halstead’s recording is available at http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/4904178-largo-serioso-by-ketelbey-mp3
McCanna’s realisation can be
heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Largo serioso for
piano sync.mp3
Légende Triste, op.35, by “Anton Vodorinski”
A 1923 piano piece with a Russian flavour.
|
Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Gramophone Review |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Piano |
Rosemary Tuck |
Marco Polo 8.223700 |
CD |
UK |
1993 |
BL,
NX, PD, TM |
cd02 |
Hear this recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7EmEigXTzU
Lillie: valse de salon by “Raoul Clifford”
A very simple piano piece from around 1900,
probably written for a beginner pupil.
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Date |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2019 |
TM |
This piece was published in 1943, but the style of
music and the romantic synopsis suggest a work of the 1920s.
Composer’s synopsis
This
piece represents a young man who has fallen in love with a girl who dances at
the theatre. The first theme portrays
the young man's ardent feelings and the second theme represents the ballet in
which the girl is dancing. The first
theme is now repeated in the 'cello with a celeste obligato as if the girl were
dancing to it; then the full orchestra takes it up appassionata,
gradually dying down as the curtain falls.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
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Piano |
Eric
Halstead |
private
recording |
web |
UK |
2003 |
(TM
CD) |
|
Piano |
Markus
Staab |
private
recording |
web |
Germany |
2008 |
|
The Halstead
version is available at http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/4904179-love-and-the-dancer-by-ketelbey-mp3
The Staab version can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3BY63M-6Y4
Love
Laughs at Locksmiths
A big coloratura
waltz-song written for Florence Smithson in the 1918-19 pantomime Babes in
the Wood.
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Label |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
As the soloist’s
part lies well for flute, the realisation uses it to replace the singer. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Love laughs at
locksmiths for flute sync.mp3
Love's Appeal
1915 song with words by L. Seaton. It
was never published, but the music was re-used in the piece In
the Shadow of St. Paul's.
Words
by L. Seaton
Come back to me, dear love I long
for thee.
Thy loving smile I crave once more
to see.
Life is so drear when thou art far
from home.
Come back to me, dear one, no more
to roam.
Come back to me, I'm
sad, alone.
My heart will break,
come back my own.
Forget the past, I wait
for thee
True to my own, come
back to me.
Come back to me, I'm weary and
alone.
Come to my heart and rest, sweet
love, my own.
Shadows dispel, let sunlight shine
again
Leave me no more to life apart in
vain.
Come back to me, I'm
sad, alone.
My heart will break,
come back my own.
Forget the past, I wait
for thee
True to my own, come
back to me.
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Artists |
Label |
Matrix |
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Format |
Date |
Locations |
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Song
with orchestra |
Carrie
Herwin (c), orchestra, ?Ketèlbey |
29325 |
UK |
10” 78 |
[May
15] |
BL,
(TM CD) |
This
recording needs to be played fast enough for the pitch to be in C major.
Love’s Melody
An intermezzo in the style of a barcarolle, published by Hawkes in 1897. After war damage at the publisher’s, the only surviving copy is of a piano conductor part.
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Artists |
Label |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2018 |
PD,
TM |
This realisation for reduced orchestra, using the composer’s instrumental cues, can be heard here. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Love's melody orch synth.mp3
Love’s Similitude
A song from 1894, with words by Florence
Hoare, daughter of Ketèlbey’s landlady in London at
that time. It is dedicated to Mrs Alfred
Hoare.
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Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
The realisation replaces the voice with
violin. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Love's
similitude for violin sync.mp3
Twelve Lyrics
This collection of art-songs seems to have
been intended to showcase the composer’s skill, unlike some of his other
pot-boiling ballads. Although these
songs have the collective title Twelve Lyrics, they were issued
piecemeal in 1902-5. Even Yet
had been performed as early as 1892.
Many years later they were re-issued in two sets of six songs, for
mezzo-soprano and baritone respectively, often with new titles.
Though our
realisations demonstrate the strong musical constructions, they would be far
more effective if another singer could follow Peter Dempsey’s lead and record
them.
- 1. Even Yet
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Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
Realised
for cello and piano http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Even yet for
cello sync.mp3
- 2. Folly
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Artists |
Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
Realised
for cello and piano http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Folly for
cello sync.mp3
- 3. White Shell = Curled Like a Flower
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Artists |
Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
Realised
for cello and piano http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/White shell
for cello sync.mp3
- 4. Lady of Dreams
This
song
was later
reworked as a cello solo under the title Songe
d'autrefois.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL,
PD, TM |
cd21 |
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
private
recording |
DVD |
UK |
rec.26.11.2009 |
PD, TM |
The CD can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
- 5. He Sings = My love’s a Saint = From Out
the Rose-clad Casement
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Artists |
Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
Realised
for cello and piano http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/He sings for
cello sync.mp3
- 6. A Maiden Must Bide
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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 |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
Realised
for oboe and piano http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Maiden
must bide for oboe sync.mp3
- 7. List
to the Message
For Ketelbey’s
own arrangement for solo piano, see Poetical Fancies. Hear it at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/List to the
message for piano sync.mp3
- 8. He is Come = The Return
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Date |
Locations |
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Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
Realised
for oboe and piano http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/He is come for
oboe sync.mp3
- 9. Sing Heigho! =
There Sits a Bird on Every Tree
This song was later
incorporated into the orchestral piece Springtime Calls.
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL,
PD, TM |
cd21 |
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
private
recording |
DVD |
UK |
rec.26.11.2009 |
PD, TM |
The CD can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
- 10. The South Wind = Soft, Soft Wind
For Ketèlbey’s
own arrangement for solo piano, see Poetical Fancies. Hear it at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Soft soft wind
for piano sync.mp3
- 11. Young and Old = When All the World is Young, Lad
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
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Date |
Locations |
Archive |
|
Song
with piano |
Peter
Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland |
Dempsey
AWK 1 |
CD |
UK |
2009 |
BL,
PD, TM |
cd21 |
This CD can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html
- 12. My Little Doll = I Once Had a Sweet Little Doll
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Medium |
Artists |
Label |
Format |
Country |
Date |
Locations |
|
Synthesized |
Tom
McCanna |
private
recording |
mp3 |
UK |
2020 |
PD,
TM |
Realised
for flute and piano http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/My little doll
for flute sync.mp3
webpage updated 12 May
2023