Suite of Scottish Dances
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Product ID: GM1 CO072
By William Alwyn
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Series:
Concert Originals
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
7:00
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About this item
The sources of
the tunes from which these arrangements have been made are two old
books of Scottish airs and dances, c.1790. To quote the title pages,
these consisted of "Favourite new country dances as danced at the
Assembly", and "Neil Gow's most fashionable dances as danced at
Edinburgh in 1787 and 1788". There are 7 short dances in the suite -
The Indian Queen; A Trip to Italy; Colonel Thornton's Strathspey; Reel -
The Perthshire Hunt; Reel - Loch Earn; Carleton House; Miss Ann
Carnegie's Hornpipe.
A recording ofthis suite played by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia
conducted by Gavin Sutherland is available on Sanctuary Classics
"British Light Music Discoveries", number CDWHL2113.
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Composer
William Alwyn (1905-1985)
William Alwyn, CBE, born William Alwyn Smith [1] (7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985) was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.
William Alwyn was born in Northampton where he showed an early interest in music and began to learn to play the piccolo. At age 15 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied flute and composition. He was a virtuoso flautist and for a time was a flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra. Alwyn served as professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1926 to 1955.
Alwyn wrote over 70 film scores from 1941 to 1962. His classic film scores included Odd Man Out, Desert Victory, Fires Were Started, The History of Mr Polly, The Fallen Idol, The Black Tent and The Crimson Pirate. Some of the scores have been lost, although many scores and sketches are now in the William Alwyn Archive at Cambridge University Library. In recent years CD recordings have been made. Some works, for which only fragmentary sketches remained, were reconstructed by Philip Lane or Christopher Palmer from the film soundtracks themselves.
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