| Description |
2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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1.4 m/s |
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mono |
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digital recording |
| Note |
Concerts of musical satire presented by Gerard Hoffnung. |
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Title from container. |
| Performer |
Various vocal and instrumental groups, soloists and conductors, including musicians of the Royal Military School of Music, the Morley College Symphony Orchestra, Dolmetsch Ensemble, Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra. |
| Event |
Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 13 November 1956 (1st concert), 21-22 November 1958 (2nd concert), and 28 November 1961 (3rd concert). |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Program notes by William Mann and texts (31 p.) in container. |
| Contents |
The Hoffnung music festival concert. Speech by T.E. Bean -- Fanfare / Francis Baines -- A grand grand overture / Malcolm Arnold -- Concerto for hose-pipe and strings. Third movement / Leopold Mozart (Dennis Brain, hose-pipe) -- Concerto popolare / Franz Reizenstein (Yvonne Arnaud, piano) -- Symphony no. 94 in G : Surprise. Andante / Haydn ; arr. Donald Swann) -- Speech by Gerard Hoffnung -- Mazurka no. 47 in A minor, op. 68 no. 2 / Chopin ; arr. Daniel Abrams (Tuba Quartet) -- Lochinvar : for speakers and percussion, to words by Sir Walter Scott / Humphrey Searle -- Variations on Annie Laurie / Gordon Jacob -- -- |
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The Hoffnung interplanetary music festival. Introductory music played in the foyer / Francis Chagrin -- A Hoffnung Festival overture (excerpts) / Francis Baines -- Metamorphosis on a bed-time theme / Alistair Sampson, Joseph Horovitz -- Sugar plums / realised by Elizabeth Poston -- The famous tay whale : a dramatic poem / by William McGonagall, set to music by Mátyás Seiber -- Concerto for conductor and orchestra. Movement / Francis Chagrin -- Punkt contrapunkt / Bruno Heinz Jaja -- The United Nations. Excerpts / Malcolm Arnold -- Waltz for restricted orchestra / Peter Racine Fricker -- Let's fake an opera, or, The tales of Hoffnung / Mann, Reizenstein & Wetherell -- -- |
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The Hoffnung astronautical music festival. Rigmarole ; Festival anthem / Francis Baines -- Leonora no. 4 : overture / Beethoven -- The barber of Darmstadt. Duet / Bruno Heinz Jaja -- Ballad of County Down, mostly in D major / Francis Chagrin -- Belshazzar's feast. Excerpt / William Walton -- Horrortorio / Joseph Horovitz ; words by Alistair Sampson from a scenario by Maurice Richardson -- Mobile for seven orchestras / Lawrence Leonard. |
| Genre/Form |
Humorous music.
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Humorous music.
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Instrumental music.
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Vocal music.
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Hoffnung, Gerard.
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| Added Title |
Hoffnung music festival concert.
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Hoffnung interplanetary music festival.
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Hoffnung astronautical music festival.
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| Standard No. |
77776330228 |
| Music No. |
CMS 7 63302 2 EMI |
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CDM 7 63303 2 EMI |
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CDM 7 63304 2 EMI |
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