Great interpretation. Great band. Fabulous music. I believe it has never been used at the Area contests in Britain? - missed opportunity. The times I've played it....well.....it's hard.
A very great reading of this Classic - my only quibble - as will almost all the other recordings out there - is the failure to negotiate the tempi coming out of the second into the third segment, which should be gauged from the bass triplets in the bars before. Failure to do this means the work sounds like an introduction and allegro - as here - instead of a gradually engineered increasing of energy from beginning to end. But there is no gainsaying the sound of Grimethorpe here - brilliant! (Also, is the soprano a few bars out immediately prior to the final big scherzo segment?)
Great interpretation. Great band. Fabulous music.
I believe it has never been used at the Area contests in Britain? - missed opportunity.
The times I've played it....well.....it's hard.
A very great reading of this Classic - my only quibble - as will almost all the other recordings out there - is the failure to negotiate the tempi coming out of the second into the third segment, which should be gauged from the bass triplets in the bars before. Failure to do this means the work sounds like an introduction and allegro - as here - instead of a gradually engineered increasing of energy from beginning to end. But there is no gainsaying the sound of Grimethorpe here - brilliant! (Also, is the soprano a few bars out immediately prior to the final big scherzo segment?)