Ma Petite, by “Raoul Clifford”

Dating from 1897, for mandolin and piano, with optional 2^nd mandolin, cello and guitar. This was probably part of the repertoire of “Le Zingare”, Florence Hoare’s Mandoline Band.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

The realisation adds a repeat to enable different combinations of instruments. Hear it at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Ma petite for mand band sync.mp3

March of the Pioneer Corps

Written for the Pioneer Corps (Scottish Command) Theatre Orchestra. It was registered with Bosworth’s in 1940, but not published until 1943.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Stephen Berry	private recording	mp3	UK	2016	PD, TM

To hear this realisation, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/March of the Pioneer Corps orchsynth.mp3

Marching Along to Victory

A cheerful march for bugles and drums, dating from 1944. The drummers have the option of singing the title phrase in several places.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

The realisation substitutes a whistling effect for the singing. To hear it, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Marching along to victory for bugles and drums sync.mp3

Les Marionettes: suite de ballet

Simple teaching pieces from around 1902 for players with small hands.

1. L'assemblée

2. Pas de valse

3. Chant d'amour

4. Le carnaval

5. Petite sérénade

6. Bonne nuit: marche

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	TM

A Mayfair Cinderella: valse-intermezzo

Evidence suggests that this orchestral waltz was originally a song written for Florence Smithson, who played Cinderella in the pantomime at Drury Lane in the 1919-20 season. But the copyright was not assigned to Bosworth until 6^th August 1937.

Medium	Artists	Label	Matrix	Format	Country	Date	*Gramophone* Review	Locations
Orchestra	London Concert O	Bosworth BC 1180	CP 1264	10” 78	UK	[1943]		WC, (TM CD)
	Re-issue	- Guild Light Music GLCD 5136		CD	UK	2007
Orchestra	BBC Concert Orchestra, Yates	Dutton Epoch CDLX 7407		CD	UK	2023		TM

The London Concert Orchestra includes a harp not in the published set of parts. The recording can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ewzbLPiVg

A fine performance from the BBC Concert Orchestra, which I believe was recorded socially-distanced during the 2021 pandemic.

Mélodie du Coeur

This piece was published in 1913 by Presser in U.S.A., with alternative solo parts for violin or cello, with piano accompaniment.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

To hear a realisation of the violin version, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Melodie du coeur for violin and piano synth.mp3

To hear a realisation of the cello version, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Melodie du coeur for cello and piano synth.mp3

Mélodie Plaintive

This expressive and challenging piece for violin and piano was written for Ketèlbey’s brother Harold, and published in 1906.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2018	PD, TM

To hear this realisation, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Melodie plaintive for violin and piano synth.mp3

25 Melodious Studies: in the form of duets for 2 mandolines, by “Raoul Clifford”

1898, also advertised as “Original Duets”. Short, simple, and not always original.

1. Andante: Study in the first position for the tremolo

2. Briskly: Study in the first position for the striking

3. Study in the second position for the tremolo

4. Decisively: Study in the second position for the striking

5. Gracefully: Study in the third position for the tremolo

6. Study in the third position, tremolo, the slurred notes, and strike the dotted ones

7. Andante sostenuto: Study for expression

8. Con spirito, A minor

9. Moderato, D major

10. Allegro, B minor

11. Grazioso, C major

12. Grazioso, G major

13. Staccato: Arpeggio study

14. Ben marcato: Chord study

15. Allegro: Study in cross accents and chords

16. Allegretto scherzando: Grace-note study

17. Allegretto leggiero, E minor

18. Moderato espressivo: Study on the fourth string

19. Allegro giocoso: Study for accompaniment

20. Andante con moto: Chromatic study

21. Allegro vivace: Scale study

22. Allegretto espress.: Study for expression

23. Andante, E flat major

24. Moderato, F minor

25. Allegretto scherzando, F major

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	TM

Men of England: short patriotic ode

Choral ode from 1926, setting of a 1828 poem by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell. Evidence suggests that the work was first performed in December 1926 with organ accompaniment, and that the orchestration was done later by A.W. Leggett.

A shortened version with the subtitle “interlude” was issued for the coronation year 1953, for orchestra with optional chorus.

Medium	Artists	Label	Matrix	Format	Country	Date	*Gramophone* Review	Locations
Chorus with orchestra	Kingsway Hall Choir?, Albert W. Ketelbey’s Concert Orchestra, Ketèlbey	Columbia 9865	WAX 4935, 4936	12” 78, 2 sides	UK	[Nov 29] rec.Jan 29	Nov 29 p.251	BL, PD, (TM CD)
	Re-issue	- Naxos 8.110870		CD	UK	2004		BL, NX, PD, TM
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording		mp3	UK	2020		TM
Organ	Michael Hendron (Mason & Hamlin chapel organ) "Marcia Eroica"	private recording		Web	US	2020

The composer makes a few minor changes to the score, most notably in fluctuations of tempo. The first side ends with a massive rallentando that would probably not have happened if the music had been recorded continuously. The recording uses a small choir of 12 voices at the most.

McCanna’s realisation is of the Interlude, for orchestra alone. Hear it at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Men of England interlude for orch.mp3

Hendron plays an extract published as Marcia Eroica. Watch him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3jaYVSjzOI

The Message of the Bells, by “Geoffrey Kaye”

1919 piano piece, orchestrated in 1920 (probably not by the composer).

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	PD, TM

The orchestral realisation uses a tubular bell part which was added later. Click here. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Message of the bells for orch sync.mp3

Michaelmas Day: children’s song, by “Raoul Clifford”

A song about eating goose on that festival day, published in September 1897.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	TM

Mind the Slide: (The Troubled Trombone): a musical joke

A novelty orchestral piece from 1915. A contemporary review was very complimentary:

Albert W. Ketélbey's [sic] musical joke Mind the Slide! provides scope for some droll orchestral effects, the trombone glissando being freely introduced as might almost be expected from the very title of the piece. Whatever the composer touches, be it ever so unpretentious, he seldom fails to leave the impress of his inherent musicianship upon it. And certainly the musical joke now before us may be cited as proof of the assertion, were it necessary to offer any vindication, which we very much doubt.

Composer’s synopsis

One or two members of the orchestra find their instruments rather unmanageable, to the evident pain of the rest of the band, as indicated by their shouts of "Oh!"

The glissandos must be very exaggerated throughout this piece, to produce the grotesque effect required, and the shouts of "Oh!" in the Trio should be very loud, as if in pain, so as to make the audience jump!

Medium	Artists	Label	Matrix	Format	Country	Date	*Gramophone* Review	Locations
Orchestra	Regal Orchestra, Ketèlbey	Regal G 7158	29922	10” 78	UK	[Nov 15]
	Re-issue	- Naxos 8.110869		CD	UK	2003		BL, NX, PD, TM
Military band	Empire Military Band (=Regal Military Band)	Beka 1141	?	10” 78	UK	rec.June 16
	Re-issue (Royal Military Band)	- Coliseum 947	36614	10” 78	UK	[1916]
	Re-issue (London Orchestral Band)	- Jumbo 1441	36614	10” 78	UK	[July 16]
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording		mp3	UK	2020		PD, TM
Orchestra	BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates	Dutton Epoch CDLX 7407		CD	UK	2023		TM

Ketèlbey makes two cuts totalling 39 bars, including the entire coda. It sounds rather rushed, just getting it all in within the 3 minute limit. Hear him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZ5YybzJqY

The realisation follows the tempo instruction “Not too fast, steady two in a bar”. But the trombone smears are less fun than on the analogue recording, and the siren is beyond MuseScore’s capability.

Hear it at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Mind the slide for orch sync.mp3

No such problems with the BBC Concert Orchestra, who enjoy themselves in a relaxed but exciting performance.

Mirror Dance

The title presumably refers to the well-known dance routine involving two dancers either side of an imaginary mirror.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	*Gramophone* 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.84	NX, TM

Hear this recording at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=iTAgW6Jc8bk&list=RDAMVMiTAgW6Jc8bk

Moderato Grazioso: study in style and independence

A charming two-part invention, written for a book of piano studies published by Trinity College of Music. Though the music has the copyright date of 1927, it may have been written at the turn of the century, when the composer was an examiner for the college.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

Click here to hear this realisation. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Moderato grazioso for piano sync.mp3

Morceau Pathéthique, op.14 (by “Anton Vodorinski”)

Gloomy piano piece from around 1904. An orchestral arrangement was published in 1926.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	*Gramophone* Review	Locations
Piano	Rosemary Tuck	Marco Polo 8.223700	CD	UK	1993		BL, NX, PD, TM
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2021		PD, TM

Hear Tuck at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oTcmzBx2kXs&list=RDAMVMoTcmzBx2kXs

The synthesized orchestral version can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Morceau%20pathetique%20for%20orch.mp3

The Mountaineer

An “easy two-part song” from 1895.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	PD, TM

As the text refers to “Loud and clear, hark to the merry horn”, the realisation is for a pair of horns with piano. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Mountaineer for horns (online-audio-converter.com) sync.mp3

Movement in Classical Style

An arrangement for American organ of Adagio Cantabile (Bosworth's Loose-Leaf Film Play Music 17)

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=JPwLHmwab3k

6 Musical Impressions

- 1. Les Grelots = Village Chimes

- 2. Valse Sentimentale

- 3. Babillage des Nymphes

- 4. Romance: duetto

- 5. The Rivulet: etude

- 6. Pensiveness

These piano pieces were published around 1902. Note the strange mixture of languages in the titles – mainly French, with some English and one Italian term. The obscurely named Les Grelots (literally translated as “Harness Jingles” or more colourfully as “Sleigh Bells”) was later issued under the new title Village Chimes.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Stephen Berry	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

To hear these realisations, click here

http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Village chimes for piano sync.mp3

http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Valse Sentimentale for piano sync.mp3

http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Babillage des nymphes piano sync.mp3

http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Romance duetto for piano sync.mp3

http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Rivulet for piano sync.mp3

http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Pensiveness for piano sync.mp3

- 2. Valse Sentimentale only

Medium	Artists	Label	Matrix	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Orchestra	Empire Symphony Orchestra, ?Ketèlbey	Rena (Columbia) 1201	?	10” 78	UK	[Nov 09]

A Musical Jig-Saw: potpourri (selected and arranged by “A.William Aston”)

Ketèlbey’s recording was reviewed by Discus in The Musical Times Vol.65 (January 1924) page 60 thus:

One light orchestral record should be noted at this season - a Col.12-in. d.-s., A Musical Jigsaw, wherein a few dozens of old friends are dovetailed with amusing effect. The Company issues a leaflet giving a list of the tunes maltreated, but gramophonists who turn on the medley at a festive gathering will be well advised to keep the list out of sight and let the hearers compete as to who can "spot" the most. This record is both ingenious and amusing. Few musicians will keep a straight face when Tchaikovsky's Chanson Triste gradually fades into the hymn-tune Now the day is over, and still less when they are launched from Who killed Cock Robin? into the "Venusberg" section of the Tannhäuser Overture.

Medium	Artists	Label	Matrix	Format	Country	Date	*Gramophone* Review	Locations
Orchestra	Court Symphony Orchestra, Ketèlbey	Columbia 948	AX 159, 160	12” 78, 2 sides	UK	[Dec 23] rec.Sept 23		BL
	Re-issue	- Naxos 8.110869		CD	UK	2003		BL, NX, PD, TM
Orchestra	Jenö Fesca Künstler Kapelle	Homocord 8228	M 51123, 51124	12” 78 2 sides	Germany	1923
	Re-issue (Jenö Fesca & his String Orchestra)	- Homochord HB 2058		12” 78, 2 sides	UK		1926 catalogue
Military band	Band of HM Coldstream Guards, Evans	HMV C 1139	Cc 3936-2, 3937-1	12” 78, 2 sides	UK	[Feb 24]		(TM CD)
?	?	Homochord D 1177	?	10” 78	UK	[Dec 27?]
Orchestra	Frank Westfield's Orchestra	Parlophone E 6052	W 1826, 1827	10” 78, 2 sides	UK	[May 28]	Sept 28 p.159
	Re-issue	- Pearl GEMM CD 9968		CD	UK	1992		BL, PD, TM
Orchestra	Concert Orchestra, C.D.Smart (organ), Possetti	Winner 4954	?	10” 78	UK	[1929]	Dec 29 p.323
Orchestra	Regal Cinema (Marble Arch) Orchestra, Starkey	Columbia DX 105	WAX 5578-1, 5579-1	12” 78, 2 sides	UK	Oct 30	Oct 30 p.234	BL, (TM CAS)
	Re-issue	- Columbia Cinema Service YBX 23	WAXD 37	12” 33	UK	[Mar 31]
Orchestra	Gandino (Mantovani) and his Orchestra	Imperial 2562	5721A, 5722A	10” 78, 2 sides	UK	[Nov 31]		BL
Orchestra	Regal Salon Orchestra	Regal MR 2428	?	10” 78	UK	[1937]	June 37 p.24

Englund gives A.W. Leggett as the conductor of Columbia 948, but both the label and Columbia catalogue have Ketelbey.

List of melodies quoted in each recording

Bar	Title	Composer	Ketèlbey	Evans	Westfield	Starkey
1	[Introduction based on] Crown diamonds - Overture	Auber		cut	cut
+	Martha - Overture	Flotow		cut	cut
8	Martha - Overture	Flotow		cut	cut
13	Crown diamonds - Overture	Auber
21	William Tell - Overture	Rossini
33	The Bohemian girl - Overture	Balfe	35-48 cut	35-40 cut
53	Yankee doodle	anon, pub. 1782
65	Upon Paul’s steeple (Chimes)	anon			cut	cut
71	Caller herrin’	Gow			cut	cut
82	Souvenir	Drdla			cut	cut
92	Serenata, op.15 no.1	Moszkowski			cut	cut
100	Bohemian girl - The heart bowed down	Balfe		cut	cut	cut
104	Nocturne, op.9 no.2	Chopin	cut	cut	cut	cut
107	When other lips	Balfe	cut	cut	cut	cut
110	Turkish patrol	Michaelis
122	Hungarian rhapsody, G 359 no.2	Liszt
134	Turkish patrol	Michaelis
144	Life on the ocean wave	Russell
151	Rendez-vous	Aletter		157-164 cut
166	Martha - Overture	Flotow
172	Prelude, op.3 no.2	Rachmaninoff
181	Tannhäuser - Overture	Wagner
194	Oberon - Overture	Weber
202	Come back to Erin	Claribel			cut
212	Lohengrin - Wedding march	Wagner			cut
			side turn		side turn
218	Rienzi - Overture	Wagner			cut
				side turn
226	Album for the young, op.68 - The merry peasant	Schumann			cut
234	Träumerei, op.15 no.7	Schumann	cut		cut
245	Swiss yodelling song	anon	cut		cut
255	La traviata - Brindisi	Verdi	cut	261-270 cut	cut
						side turn
272	Martha - Overture	Flotow	cut		cut	cut
277	Songs without words op.62 – Spring song	Mendelssohn	cut	cut	cut	cut
285	Annie Laurie	Scott	cut	cut	cut	cut
289	Believe me if all those endearing young charms	anon, 1775	cut		cut	cut
292	In a Persian market	Ketèlbey	292-307 cut	292-307 cut	cut
322	Gott erlobe Franz den Kaiser (Austrian/German anthem)	Haydn		cut	cut	cut
326	Sweet lavender (sung)	anon			cut	cut
329	Mistletoe bough	Bishop	cut		cut	cut
334	Irish jig	anon, 1792		342-345 cut	cut	cut
346	Piano concerto	Schumann		cut	cut	cut
353	Hearts and flowers	Tobani			cut	cut
370	Hungarian dance no.1	Brahms		374-381 cut
384	Jack's the lad (Sailors’ hornpipe)	anon, pub.1796	cut	cut
394	There you are then (sung)	Silbermann
396	Hungarian March	Berlioz		409-416 cut
417	Chanson triste, op.48 no.2	Tchaikovsky		417-424 cut
427	Now the day is over	Baring-Gould
434	Blue Danube	Strauss	435-453 cut		cut
+	Der Obersteiger - Don’t be cross	Zeller			cut
470	Who killed Cock Robin?	anon
477	Tannhäuser – Venusberg music	Wagner		cut	cut
493	Faust - The calf of gold	Gounod	496-505 cut	cut	cut
514	Raymond - Overture	Thomas		cut
526	1812	Tchaikovsky
	TOTAL PLAYING TIME		8’ 36”	(8” 23”+)	6’ 27”	8’ 35”

The three phrases which should be sung by the orchestra are just played in Ketèlbey’s recording, which can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmQo34jM4U&list=PLDdlSzGv6-khkghNzz8X259uHMY6IdPIr&index=32&t=0s

Westfield has the singing. His tubular bells (which should be tacet for the last 19 bars) continue playing to the end.

Starkey has no singing, but includes a harp in his orchestra.

Evans includes the singing. A curiosity of the military band version is that although it begins and ends in the same key (Eb) as the orchestral version, the bulk of it (bars 49-476 in this recording) is transposed up by a semitone. My transcription is a further semitone sharp, so the total playing time should probably be at least 10 seconds longer.

My Heart A-Dream

The song was reviewed thus in Musical Opinion vol.32 p.862 (Sept 1909):

“A tender appealing love ditty is Albert W. Ketélbey's [sic] My heart a-dream, the words of which issue from the graceful pen of Florence Hoare.”

Medium	Artists	Label	Matrix	Format	Country	Date	*Gramophone* Review	Locations
Song with orchestra?	Walter Wheatley,?orchestra, ?Ketèlbey	Columbia 1963	?	10” 78	UK	[Oct 12]
Song with piano	Peter Dempsey (t), Guy Rowland	Dempsey AWK 111		CD	UK	2009		BL, PD, TM

Dempsey’s CD can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/anniversary.html

My Heart Still Clings to You

Words by Ketelbey.

“This song was chosen by a large majority of the audience at a concert held at the London Hippodrome on Novr. 23rd 1913 as the winning song for male voices in the "Evening News" £200 prize competition. It was sung by Mr Stewart Gardner.”

Medium	Artists	Label	Matrix	Format	Country	Date	*Gramophone* Review	Locations
Song with orchestra	Edgar Coyle (bt), orchestra, ?Ketèlbey	Columbia 2331	28764	10” 78	UK	[Feb 14]		BL
	Re-issue	- Naxos 8.110870		CD	UK	2004		BL, NX, PD, TM
Song with orchestra	Thorpe Bates, orchestra, ?Ketèlbey	Columbia 463	6401	12” 78	UK	[June 14]
Song with orchestra	Edgar Coyle (bt), orchestra, Ketèlbey	Columbia 2331R	WA 3800-1	10” 78	UK	rr Aug 26		BL, (TM CAS). (TM CD)

Edgar Coyle recorded this song twice, the second benefiting from electrical technology. For the Naxos transfer, the first recording was played so that the same pitch (Ab major) was used as in the second. However, the 1914 recording sounds slow, with the average metronome marking being crotchet = 46, whereas the 1925 is at 68. The earlier recording omits the first refrain and second verse, the later one just omits the second verse and final orchestral bars. Even as late as 1926, the bass is provided by a tuba. Hear the 1914 recording at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-VNBGWZ-g

My Lady Brocade

Although this piece for piano, strings and glockenspiel was published in 1933, it may well have been the same piece as Beau Brocade, known only as a title assigned to Bosworth in 1923. A contemporary review in 1933 wrote

“A specialité piece for Pizzicato Strings and Celeste (or Piano), specially composed by Ketèlbey in response to many requests for a new Pizzicato number”.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Pianola		Themodist 30656	roll	UK	ca.1933
Piano	Eric Halstead	private recording	www	UK	2003	(TM CD)
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM
Orchestra	BBC Concert Orchestra, Ben Dawson (celeste), Alasdair Molloy (glockenspiel), Yates	Dutton Epoch CDLX 7407	CD	UK	2023	TM

The pianola roll can be heard played by Adam Ramet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRE33H9NNY8

Halstead’s recording is available at http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/3998219-collection-of-ketelbey-midi-files-zip

The realisation is based on the combination of celeste, glockenspiel and strings, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/My lady brocade for orch sync.mp3

The sound balance in the Dutton recording is delicate, with the soloists blending well with the pizzicato strings.

My Star of Love

A song from 1949, presumably composed with Albert’s second wife Mabel in mind.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	PD, TM

The realisation is for piano solo, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/My star of love for piano (online-audio-converter.com) sync.mp3

My Wish

A short carol written for the Ketelbey family Christmas card probably in 1889. An engraving shows an ensemble of flute, oboe, viola, trombone, double bass, harp and two male singers, which forms the basis for our realisation.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	PD, TM

Hear this realisation at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/My wish for band sync.mp3

‘Neath Swinging Roses

Song with words by Florence Hoare, beginning “In June, sweet June”. A song of that name was due to be sung at a Trinity College of Music concert in July 1892, though it appears it may not have been performed until December of that year, sung by Miss Bertha Ackworth.

The song was later published as ‘Neath Swinging Roses by Patey & Willis in 1897, where the words must have been amended to be appropriate for a man singer. It was “Dedicated to and sung by Mr Harry Fairleigh (Geo. Edwards "Geisha" Co.).”

Sales cannot have been good, as in 1902 the title was sold on to the publisher Dean for £6/3/6, and then in 1905 to Hammond for £4/-/9. That’s less than 21 copies retailing at 4/- each.

My own copy is stamped by A. Hammond, and also by Carter & Sons in Cape Town – a well-travelled piece of music!

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	PD, TM

The realisation replaces the voice with cello. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Neath swinging roses for cello sync.mp3

New Moving Picture Book

This collection of piano music, originally published in 1916 under the title New Moving Picture Music, contains 22 pieces by Ketèlbey. Most of these were incorporated into Bosworth’s Loose-Leaf Film Play Music Series, best-sellers which provided the composer with a sizeable income.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

This selection, listed below, includes all the pieces which were not re-used in the Film Play Music Series, and also other passages which were omitted from existing commercial recordings of that series. Click on the links to hear the realisations.

- 1. Plaintive http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/NMPB1 Plantive sync.mp3

- 3. Heroic (finale, or beginning) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/NMPB3 Heroic sync.mp3

- 4. Hurry (melodramatic struggles, etc.) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/NMPB4 Hurry sync.mp3

- 9. Comic Music (for drunken business or mock-serious scene) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/NMPB9 Comic Music sync.mp3

- 11. Lively Music (for race scenes, crowds, etc.) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/NMPB11 Lively music sync.mp3

- 13. Sailor Music, with "Rule Britannia" (for landing of marines, etc.) http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/NMPB13 Sailor music sync.mp3

- 17. Quick-Step March, with "The Girl I Left Behind Me" à la Scotch http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/NMPB17 Quick-step march sync.mp3

- 18. Triumphal March http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/NMPB18 Triumphal March sync.mp3

Night, by “Geoffrey Kaye”

This expressive orchestral piece was published in 1922.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Stephen Berry	private recording	mp3	UK	2016	PD, TM

To hear this realisation, click here http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Night orch synth.mp3

Nuit des étoiles: nocturne, by “Raoul Clifford”

One of several simple pieces for mandolin dating from the late 1890s.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesizer	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

The realisation adds tremolo to the main rondo theme, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Nuit des etoiles for mandolin sync.mp3

The Old Belfry = Victory Bells

At the end of the First World War, Ketèlbey wrote a celebratory song, Victory Bells. Only one page of this has been discovered, with the first verse beginning

Now the strife of battle is over

And the crash of war is done,

Soon our lads will come a-marching

From their …

The refrain was later published as a separate intermezzo for piano, and then renamed and orchestrated in 1923.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

To hear this realisation of the orchestral version, click here. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Old Belfry for orch sync.mp3

Old ’96, by “Raoul Clifford”

A song for New Year 1897, published in the magazine The Children’s Friend.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	TM

The Old Ingle-Nook

Song from 1914. The music was reused in The Golden Wedding, from the suite In a Lovers’ Garden. A contemporary review ran:

Albert W. Ketélbey combines with Edward Oxenford in the production of a really inviting song called The Old Ingle-Nook. Quite successfully, the composer has here striven to provide the singer with something which will appeal to the average concert-goer without in the least offending the susceptibilities of the most exacting art patron. We are not surprised to learn that Madame Ada Crossley has made the song her own.

The melodies were re-used in The Golden Wedding in the suite In a Lovers' Garden.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2020	PD, TM

The realisation replaces the contralto voice with viola. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Old ingle nook for viola sync.mp3

An Old-world Romance

An updated version (1940) of Adagio Cantabile, in a faster tempo, with the addition of piano, tenor sax and vibraphone

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2021	PD, TM

Click to hear this realisation. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/old world romance for orch.mp3

Olesia = Polish Dance

Piano piece from 1897. It appears that the original title was Polish Dance, and then Olesia was added to the cover of some editions. A different Polish Dance is included in Arpeggio-Melodies Book 3.

Medium	Artists	Label	Format	Country	Date	Locations
Synthesized	Tom McCanna	private recording	mp3	UK	2019	PD, TM

The realisation includes some details from a version for piano duet, and can be heard at http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Olesia for piano sync.mp3

6 Original Pieces Without Octaves, op.9, by “Anton Vodorinski”

Although the title suggests these are piano teaching material for young players, several pieces in the collection had a further life in other arrangements. As teaching material, they frequently appeared on Trinity College of Music syllabuses. Most pieces have easily understood titles, but to save you reaching for the dictionary, Bluette means a trifle, or if you like, bagatelle.

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. Canzonette. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Canzonette op.9-1 for piano sync.mp3

2. Scherzette. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Scherzette for piano sync.mp3

3. Bluette. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Bluette for piano sync.mp3

4. Violette. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Violette for piano sync.mp3

5. Valsette. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Valsette for piano sync.mp3

6. Coquette. http://www.albertketelbey.org.uk/mp3/synth/Coquette for piano (online-audio-converter.com) sync.mp3

12 Original Voluntaries

These short unassuming pieces for “American organ” (a kind of harmonium) had probably been conceived some years earlier when the composer was organist at St John’s Church, Wimbledon. The collection was not published until around 1903. Meditation is a reworking of Introductory Voluntary.