Royal Eurostar

CDA66870

Recording details: January 1996
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: June 1996
Total duration: 68 minutes 19 seconds

'Brass fans get an engaging, well played program that offers a blend of the familiar and the pleasing new, and makes for an easy recommendation' (Fanfare, USA)

Royal Eurostar

London Brass Virtuosi, David Honeyball (conductor)

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1		The Royal Eurostar [12'02] Paul Patterson (b1947) with Wayne Marshall (organ)
2		Sursum Corda Op 11 [10'02] Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) with Philharmonia Orchestra, Joseph Cullen (organ)
3		Paris Fanfare [1'13] Paul Patterson (b1947)
		William and Mary Op 106 Derek Bourgeois (b1941)
4		Fanfare [1'52]
5		The Landing at Torbay and the Journey to London [3'49]
6		The King's Champion [2'20]
7		The Death of Mary [4'12]
8		The Achievement [4'27]
9		Brussels Fanfare [1'28] Paul Patterson (b1947)
10		Feierlicher Einzug der Ritter des Johanniter-Ordens [6'06] Richard Strauss (1864-1949), arr. Max Reger (1873-1916) & Johannes H E Koch
11		Eurostar Fanfare [2'12] Paul Patterson (b1947)
		Konzertmusik for brass and strings Op 50 Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
12		Mässig schnell, mit Kraft – Sehr breit, aber stets fliessend [9'15] with Philharmonia Orchestra
13		Lebhaft – Langsam – In ersten Zeitmass [9'21] with Philharmonia Orchestra

This 'Royal Eurostar' recording is a celebration in music of one of the most important engineering feats of the twentieth century—the building of the Channel Tunnel, and the creation of probably the finest railway station ever built: Waterloo International. The Paul Patterson works were all composed for the State Opening of the tunnel on 6 May 1994 and are intended to exploit the extraordinary acoustic inside the new Waterloo station (including the constant 'pedal D' which comes from the train engines!).

Accompanying these pieces, we have dramatic brass compositions by Richard Strauss, Hindemith and Elgar, and, appropriately for so European a project, the William and Mary suite, composed by Derek Bourgeois in 1988 for the London Brass Virtuosi to celebrate the tercentenary of the accession to the British throne of William and Mary.

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