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Hoffnung Music Festivals 1956, 1958 & 1961

by Various Artists

46 SONGS

Oct 1989

Speech by Mr T. E. Bean, General Manager of the Royal Festival Hall

Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall/Francis Baines

A Grand, Grand Overture, Op. 57

Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Arnold

Concerto for Hosepipe and Strings: III. Allegro

Dennis Brain/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar

Concerto popolare (A Piano Concerto to End All Piano Concertos)

Yvonne Arnaud/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar

Symphony No. 94 in G Major, Hob. I:94 "Surprise": II. Andante (Arr. Swann)

Members of the BBC Music Division/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Lawrence Leonard

Speech by Gerard Hoffnung

Gerard Hoffnung

Mazurka No. 47 in A Minor, Op. Posth. 68 No. 2 (Arr. Abrams for Tuba Quartet)

Lochinvar, for Speakers and Percussion

Yvonne Arnaud/Gerard Hoffnung/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Lawrence Leonard

Variations on "Annie Laurie": Theme (Alerto ma non troppo)

Festival Ensemble & Gordon Jacob

Variations on "Annie Laurie": Var. I (Poco inglesemente)

Festival Ensemble & Gordon Jacob

Variations on "Annie Laurie": Var. II (Molto zingaresemente)

Festival Ensemble & Gordon Jacob

Variations on "Annie Laurie": Var. III (Alla gigolo)

Festival Ensemble & Gordon Jacob

Variations on "Annie Laurie": Var. IV (Finale. Assai)

Festival Ensemble & Gordon Jacob

Introductory Music Played in the Foyer

Drum & Fife Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall/Francis Chagrin

A Hoffnung Festival Overture (2 Excerpts)

Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/John Weeks/Francis Baines

Metamorphosis on a Bed-Time Theme (Allegro commerciale in modo televisione)

April Cantelo/Ian Wallace/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Sugar Plums (after Tchaikovsky)

Dometsch Ensemble/Elizabeth Poston/Felix Aprahamian/Lionel Salter/Eric Thompson/Peter Hemmings/Robert Ponsonby

The Famous Tay Whale - A dramatic poem by William McGonagall

Dame Edith Evans/Annetta Hoffnung/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Mátyás Seiber

Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra

Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Gerard Hoffnung

Punkt Contrapunkt

Gerard Hoffnung, John Amis, Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra & Norman Del Mar

The United Nations (Excerpts)

Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Arnold

Waltz for Restricted Orchestra

Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Peter Racine Fricker

Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung: "Here are the girls" (The Master, Apprentices)

Edith Coates/Gloria Lane/Sheila Rex/Owen Brannigan/John Dobson/Edgar Evans/Peter Glossop/Otakar Kraus/Duncan Robertson/Ian Wallace/Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar/Brian Priestman

Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung: "I'm Azucena, Who could be plainer?" (Azucena)

Edith Coates/Gloria Lane/Sheila Rex/Owen Brannigan/John Dobson/Edgar Evans/Peter Glossop/Otakar Kraus/Duncan Robertson/Ian Wallace/Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar/Brian Priestman

Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung: "I see by daylight dawning" (Beckmesser, Azucena)

Edith Coates/Gloria Lane/Sheila Rex/Owen Brannigan/John Dobson/Edgar Evans/Peter Glossop/Otakar Kraus/Duncan Robertson/Ian Wallace/Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar/Brian Priestman

Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung: "Nie sollst du mich befragen" (Otello, Salome)

Edith Coates/Gloria Lane/Sheila Rex/Owen Brannigan/John Dobson/Edgar Evans/Peter Glossop/Otakar Kraus/Duncan Robertson/Ian Wallace/Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar/Brian Priestman

Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung: "Daughter of Heaven" (Otello, Salome, Fidelio)

Edith Coates/Gloria Lane/Sheila Rex/Owen Brannigan/John Dobson/Edgar Evans/Peter Glossop/Otakar Kraus/Duncan Robertson/Ian Wallace/Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar/Brian Priestman

Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung: "I'm in search of a man" (Brünnhilde)

Edith Coates/Gloria Lane/Sheila Rex/Owen Brannigan/John Dobson/Edgar Evans/Peter Glossop/Otakar Kraus/Duncan Robertson/Ian Wallace/Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar/Brian Priestman

Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung: "O schöne Melisande" (Beckmesser, Don Giovanni, Brünnhilde, Manrico, Nadir, Mélisande, Chorus)

Edith Coates/Gloria Lane/Sheila Rex/Owen Brannigan/John Dobson/Edgar Evans/Peter Glossop/Otakar Kraus/Duncan Robertson/Ian Wallace/Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar/Brian Priestman

Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung: "I'm Escamillo" (Escamillo, Chorus)

Edith Coates/Gloria Lane/Sheila Rex/Owen Brannigan/John Dobson/Edgar Evans/Peter Glossop/Otakar Kraus/Duncan Robertson/Ian Wallace/Hoffnung Festival Opera Chorus/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar/Brian Priestman

Introductory Music Played in the Foyer (Excerpt, Rigmarole)

Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall

Festival Anthem

Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Francis Baines

Leonore Overture No. 4 (Overture after Beethoven's "Leonore No. 3, Op. 72a")

Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall/The Happy Wanderers/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar

Der Barbier von Darmstadt: Duet, "Escucha en linea o descarga" (Herr Knochen, Der Redepariner)

Owen Brannigan/John Amis/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Humphrey Searle

Ballad of County Down

Forbes Robinson, Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra & Francis Chagrin

Belshazzar's Feast (Excerpt) - Introduced by Mr T. E. Bean CBE

Owen Brannigan/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Sir William Walton

Horrortorio, A Choral Extravaganza: Overture - Opening Chorus (Tenor, Chorus)

Stephen Manton/April Cantelo/Pamela Bowden/John Frost/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Horrortorio, A Choral Extravaganza: Trio (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor)

Stephen Manton/April Cantelo/Pamela Bowden/John Frost/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Horrortorio, A Choral Extravaganza: "Let all things nameless at our feast run wild" (Bass)

Stephen Manton/April Cantelo/Pamela Bowden/John Frost/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Horrortorio, A Choral Extravaganza: Recitative, "With sharped-fanged smile the young bride bowed" (Tenor) - "My heart is swelling" (Soprano, Chorus)

Stephen Manton/April Cantelo/Pamela Bowden/John Frost/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Horrortorio, A Choral Extravaganza: Recitative, "And while the company retired to a well-earned rest" (Tenor) - "My child, be seated" (Bass, Men's Chorus)

Stephen Manton/April Cantelo/Pamela Bowden/John Frost/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Horrortorio, A Choral Extravaganza: Recitative, "And in the castle guest room" (Tenor) - "If you can hurt" (Contralto, Chorus)

Stephen Manton/April Cantelo/Pamela Bowden/John Frost/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Horrortorio, A Choral Extravaganza: "Midnight … Dracula, still in the Gloom of youth" (Tenor)

Stephen Manton/April Cantelo/Pamela Bowden/John Frost/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Horrortorio, A Choral Extravaganza: Recitative, "But at the reception" (Tenor)

Stephen Manton/April Cantelo/Pamela Bowden/John Frost/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz

Mobile for Seven Orchestras

Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Festival Choral Society/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Lawrence Leonard

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