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All of the World's Most Beautiful Melodies!

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CHAN 4536
 
All of the World's Most Beautiful Melodies!
Running Time: 301:37

Release Date: 1995
Originally recorded in September 1984
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Antonin Dvorák
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Charles-Francois Gounod / Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Johannes Brahms
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Edward Cockram Purcell
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Giacomo Puccini
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Léo Delibes
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Traditional
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Franz Schubert
Composer arr. Peter Parkes
Claude Debussy
Composer arr. Peter Parkes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Solo Cornet cornett
Phillip McCann
Orchestra
Black Dyke Band
Conductor
Major Peter Parkes
Solo organ
Iain Robertson
Producer  
Brian Couzens
Engineer
Ralph Couzens
Engineer assistant
Bill Todd
Venue 13th & 14th September 1984
St Annes Cathedral, Leeds
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Giacomo Puccini
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Haydn Wood
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Dermot MacMurrough
Composer arr. Peter Parkes
Max Bruch
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Georges Bizet
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Stephen Adams
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Pietro Mascagni
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
Charles Marshall
Composer arr. Peter Parkes
Felix Mendelssohn
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Friedrich von Flotow
Composer arr. Peter Parkes
Gaetano Donizetti
Solo Cornet cornet
Phillip McCann
Orchestra
Black Dyke Band
Conductor
Major Peter Parkes
Solo harp
Skaila Kanga
Chamber
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Conductor
Gordon Langford
Solo organ
Malcolm Hicks
Producer
Brian Couzens
Engineer
Ralph Couzens
Engineer assistant
Philip Couzens
Venue October 1986
All Saints' Church, Tooting, London
Venue November 1986
Dewsbury Town Hall
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
James Lyman Molloy
Composer arr. Peter Graham
Gabriel Fauré
Composer arr. Peter Graham
French Traditional
Composer arr. Goff Richards
Guy D'Hardelot
Composer arr. Peter Graham
Antonio Vivaldi
Composer arr. Phillip McCann
George Bennard
Composer arr. Peter Graham
Luigi Arditi
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Irish Traditional
Solo Cornet cornet
Phillip McCann
Orchestra
Sellers Engineering Band
Conductor (tracks 4,5,6,8,9,12,13,14,15)
Roy Newsome
Conductor (tracks 1,7,16)
Douglas Blackledge
Solo organ (tracks 1,7,16)
Roy Newsome
Solo organ (tracks 2,3,10,11)
Simon Lindley
Producer
Ralph Couzens
Engineer
Richard Lee
Engineer assistant
Jonathan Cooper
Venue 2-4 July 1991
St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield Polytechnic
Venue 20 July 1991 (tracks 2,3,10,11 only)
Leeds Parish Church
Composer arr. Richard Phillips
Ernesto de Curtis
Composer arr. Peter Graham
Reginald Morgan
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
César Franck
Composer arr. Alan Fernie
Thomas Westendorf
Composer arr. Alan Fernie
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
George Frideric Handel
Composer arr. Richard Phillips
Arthur Tate
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Camille Saint-Saëns
Solo Cornet cornet
Phillip McCann
Orchestra *
Sellers Engineering Band
Choral †
Sellers Engineering Band
Solo organ ‡
Simon Lindley
Conductor
Roy Newsome
Producer
Ralph Couzens
Engineer
Richard Lee
Engineer assistant
Richard Smoker
Venue 1 & 2 November 1992
Dewsbury Town Hall
Composer arr. Alan Fernie
Jules Massenet
Composer arr. Gordon Langford
Sir Edward Elgar
Composer arr. Alan Fernie
Frederick Delius
Composer arr. Richard Phillips
Murray
Composer arr. Alan Fernie
Edward MacDowell
Composer arr. Ray Farr
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Composer arr. Peter Graham
Vittorio Monti
Solo Cornet cornet
Phillip McCann
Orchestra *
Sellers Engineering Band
Choral †
Huddersfield Choral Society Youth Choir
Solo organ ‡
Simon Lindley
Conductor
Major Peter Parkes
Producer
Ralph Couzens
Engineer
Peter Newble
Venue 4-6 March 1994
Leeds Parish Church
Genre:
Brass

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COMPACT DISC 1
The World's Most Beautiful Melodies

ANTONIN DVORÁK

arr. Gordon Langford
1.

Songs My Mother Taught Me

2:02

CHARLES-FRANCOIS GOUNOD / JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

arr. Phillip McCann
2.

Ave Maria

3:03

JOHANNES BRAHMS

arr. Phillip McCann
3.

Lullaby

2:18

EDWARD COCKRAM PURCELL

arr. Phillip McCann
4.

Passing By

1:34

GIACOMO PUCCINI

arr. Gordon Langford
5.

One Fine Day (Un bel di) from Madame Butterfly

3:51

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

arr. Gordon Langford
6.

None But The Lonely Heart

3:23

ANTONIN DVORÁK

arr. Gordon Langford
7.

Rusalka's Song to the Moon

5:07

GIACOMO PUCCINI

arr. Peter Parkes
8.

Nessun Dorman (None shall sleep) from Turandot

2:52

LÉO DELIBES

arr. Gordon Langford
9.

Maids of Cadiz

3:33

TRADITIONAL

arr. Gordon Langford
10.

My Love Is Like A Red, Red, Rose

4:20

FRANZ SCHUBERT

arr. Phillip McCann
11.

Du Bist Die Ruh'

4:24

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

arr. Peter Parkes
12.

The Girl With The Flaxen Hair

2:22

GIACOMO PUCCINI

arr. Gordon Langford
13.

O, My Beloved Father (O mio babbino caro) from Gianni Schicchi

2:22

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

arr. Peter Parkes
14.

Non So Più from The Marriage of Figaro

2:27

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN

arr. Phillip McCann
15.

The Lost Chord

5:07
Total time: 50:00
Orchestra: Black Dyke Band
Conductor: Major Peter Parkes
Solo: Iain Robertson organ
 
COMPACT DISC 2
More of The World's Most Beautiful Melodies

GIACOMO PUCCINI

arr. Gordon Langford
1.

Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) from La Boheme

4:29

GIUSEPPE VERDI

arr. Gordon Langford
2.

Celeste Aida from Aida

3:33

TRADITIONAL

arr. Gordon Langford
3.

Skye Boat Song

3:11

HAYDN WOOD

arr. Phillip McCann
4.

A Brown Bird Singing

2:42

DERMOT MACMURROUGH

arr. Phillip McCann
5.

Macushla

3:01

MAX BRUCH

arr. Peter Parkes
6.

Violin Concerto

4:07
Theme from Slow Movement

GEORGES BIZET

arr. Gordon Langford
7.

Flower Song (L'amour est un oiseau rebelle) from Carmen

3:40

STEPHEN ADAMS

arr. Phillip McCann
8.

The Holy City

4:20

PIETRO MASCAGNI

arr. Gordon Langford
9.

Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

3:08

CHARLES MARSHALL

arr. Phillip McCann
10.

I Hear You Calling Me

3:24

FRANZ SCHUBERT

arr. Phillip McCann
11.

Ave Maria

4:17

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

arr. Peter Parkes
12.

Violin Concerto

3:50
Theme from Slow Movement

FRIEDRICH VON FLOTOW

arr. Gordon Langford
13.

M'appari Tutt'amor from Martha

3:00

CHARLES-FRANCOIS GOUNOD

arr. Gordon Langford
14.

Salut! Demeure Chaste et Pure from Faust

3:34

GAETANO DONIZETTI

arr. Peter Parkes
15.

Quando Rapito in Estasio from Lucia Di Lammermoor

4:28
Total time: 55:50
(tracks 1,6,9,12,15)
Orchestra: Black Dyke Band
Conductor: Major Peter Parkes
(tracks 2,3,7,13,14)
Solo: Skaila Kanga harp
Chamber: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Conductor: Gordon Langford
(tracks 4,5,8,10,11)
Solo: Malcolm Hicks organ
COMPACT DISC 3
The World' Most Beautiful Melodies, Vol.3
1.

Nuns' Chorus from Casanova

3:55

JAMES LYMAN MOLLOY

arr. Phillip McCann
2.

Love's Old Sweet Song

4:07

HAYDN WOOD

arr. Phillip McCann
3.

Roses of Picardy

4:22

GABRIEL FAURÉ

arr. Peter Graham
4.

Apres Un Reve

3:12

FRENCH TRADITIONAL

arr. Peter Graham
5.

Shepherd's Song

4:00

GEORGES BIZET

arr. Peter Graham
6.

Serenade from La Jolie Fille De Perth

3:12

TRADITIONAL

arr. Peter Graham
7.

Swedish Hymn

3:53

GUY D'HARDELOT

arr. Goff Richards
8.

Because

4:54

ANTONIO VIVALDI

arr. Peter Graham
9.

Largo from 'Winter' (The Four Seasons)

2:05

GEORGE BENNARD

arr. Phillip McCann
10.

The Old Rugged Cross

2:03

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

arr. Phillip McCann
11.

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

5:00
12.

Plaisir D'Amour

4:35

LUIGI ARDITI

arr. Peter Graham
13.

Il Bacio (The Kiss)

3:29

IRISH TRADITIONAL

arr. Gordon Langford
14.

The Last Rose of Summer

3:39
15.

The Londonderry Air

3:39

PIETRO MASCAGNI

arr. Roy Newsome
16.

Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana

4:58
Total time: 61:50
Orchestra: Sellers Engineering Band
Conductor: Roy Newsome (tracks 4,5,6,8,9,12,13,14,15)
Conductor: Douglas Blackledge (tracks 1,7,16)
Solo: Roy Newsome organ (tracks 1,7,16)
Solo: Simon Lindley organ (tracks 2,3,10,11)
COMPACT DISC 4
The World's Most Beautiful Melodies, Vol.4

ERNESTO DE CURTIS

arr. Richard Phillips
1.

Torna a Surriento *

4:21

REGINALD MORGAN

arr. Peter Graham
2.

Count Your Blessings ‡

3:14

CÉSAR FRANCK

arr. Gordon Langford
3.

Panis Angelicus † ‡

3:17

TRADITIONAL

arr. Alan Catherall
4.

Song of The Seashore *

3:25

THOMAS WESTENDORF

arr. Alan Fernie
5.

I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen *

5:25

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

arr. Phillip McCann
6.

O, For The Wings Of A Dove ‡

5:34

ALEXANDER PORFIRYEVICH BORODIN

arr. Alan Fernie
7.

Polovtsian Dance from Prince Igor *

3:07
8.

Myfanwy * † ‡

4:32

TRADITIONAL

arr. Roy Newsome
9.

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms *

3:30

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

arr. Gordon Langford
10.

Dank Sei Dir, Herr (Thanks be to thee, O Lord) *

4:06

ARTHUR TATE

arr. Richard Phillips
11.

Somewhere A Voice Is Calling ‡

3:45

RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO

arr. Gordon Langford
12.

Mattinata *

3:18

GABRIEL FAURÉ

arr. Peter Graham
13.

Pie Jesu from Requiem

4:04

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

arr. Richard Phillips
14.

Laudate Dominum from Solemn Vespers † ‡

4:04

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

arr. Gordon Langford
15.

Softly Awakes My Heart *

6:13
16.

In Memoriam Harry Mortimer A Hunting Scene *

5:50
Featuring Echo Cornet & Post Horm
Total time: 68:54
Orchestra: Sellers Engineering Band *
Choral: Sellers Engineering Band
Solo: Simon Lindley organ ‡
Conductor: Roy Newsome
COMPACT DISC 5
The World' Most Beautiful Melodies, Vol.5
The Golden Cornet of Phillip McCann

JULES MASSENET

arr. Alan Fernie
1.

Meditation from Thaïs *

5:01

SIR EDWARD ELGAR (1857 – 1934)

arr. Gordon Langford
2.

Salut D'Amour ‡

2:59

TRADITIONAL

arr. Richard Phillips
3.

Suo Gan * †

3:38

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

arr. Gordon Langford
4.

Beau Soir *

4:47

FREDERICK DELIUS

arr. Alan Fernie
5.

La Calinda *

3:29

GABRIEL FAURÉ

arr. Peter Graham
6.

Pavane * †

6:33

MURRAY

arr. Richard Phillips
7.

I'll Walk Beside You † ‡

3:08

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

arr. Goff Richards
8.

Clair De Lune *

4:37

BRIAN COUZENS

arr. Gordon Langford
9.

Exotica *

3:27

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

arr. Peter Graham
10.

On Wings Of Song ‡

3:38

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

arr. Gordon Langford
11.

Largo 'Ombra mai fu' * †

3:23

TRADITIONAL

arr. Alan Fernie
12.

Eriskay Love Lilt † ‡

2:13

GIACOMO PUCCINI

arr. Gordon Langford
13.

Vissi D'Arte *

3:17

EDWARD MACDOWELL

arr. Alan Fernie
14.

To A Wild Rose *

2:30

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

arr. Goff Richards
15.

Sheep May Safely Graze * †

5:19

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

arr. Ray Farr
16.

Adagio from Symphony No.2 *

5:22

VITTORIO MONTI

arr. Peter Graham
17.

Czardas *

5:59
Total time: 70:39
Orchestra: Sellers Engineering Band *
Choral: Huddersfield Choral Society Youth Choir
Solo: Simon Lindley organ ‡
Conductor: Major Peter Parkes






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