Instrumentation

2.2.2.bcl.2 - 4230 - timp - perc(1): tgl/susp.cym/cyms/BD - strings

Availability

Score (fp) 0-571-56749-5 on sale, parts for hire.

Programme Notes

I orchestrated about half of Beethoven's 'Rule Britannia' Piano Variations in 1980 for Carl Davis' score for the 1927 Abel Gance silent movie Napoléon - a scene showing the British fleet off Toulouse. In 1997 Carl asked me to orchestrate the rest of the Variations for a performance he gave with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Kerkrade, Netherlands.

Colin Matthews

Five Variations on the National Song: Rule Britannia

The Octagon, Pavilion Gardens (Buxton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom)

Chetham's Sinfonia/Stephen Threlfall

Five Variations on the National Song: Rule Britannia

No Venue (Kerkrade, Netherlands)

Carl Davis CBE/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra