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    Warlock arr Eric Crees

    Capriol Suite

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    Instrument: brass tentet (score and parts)
    Grade: conservatoire
    Catalogue No: AL006

    Philip Heseltine, who composed under the name of Peter Warlock, was a notable critic and authority on Elizabethan music. In the early 1920's he helped translate "Orchésographie", a 16th century treatise on dancing by Thoinot Arbeau. The book is written in question-and-answer form between the tutor and his pupil, Capriol, and delightfully describes both the practise and etiquette of the art of dancing. Additionally, it contains a number of dance tunes which Heseltine the scholar transcribed into modern notation. This project evidently fired the composer's imagination, for Warlock quickly composed his own 'spiced-up' arrangements of six of the dances for piano duet and subsequently for both string and full orchestra.

    This brass transcription has been edited so as to emphasise the different characters of the various dances. In performance these nuances should be brought out strongly. However, crescendi and diminuendi, often marked 'poco', have been added merely to show the direction of phrases and must not be over exaggerated.
    Eric Crees
    Eric Crees is one of the most distinguished trombonists, arrangers and educators in the UK. He was Co-Principal Trombone in the London Symphony Orchestra for twenty-seven years and from 2000 until 2020 was Section Principal Trombone with the Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has played on many of the most iconic film tracks, including the first four 'Star Wars', 'Superman' 1&2, 'Harry Potter' 1,2&3, 'Braveheart', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and dozens more.

    Eric has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London since 1977 and in 2014 was awarded two prestigious honours, Conferment to Professor at the Guildhall and the International Trombone Association's Neil Humfeld Award for Teaching Excellence. He is internationally recognised as a conductor and arranger of brass music at the highest level and has been the Musical Director of London Symphony Orchestra Brass and the Brass Soloists of the Royal Opera House and made seven CDs with them, mainly of his own compositions, arrangements and editions. He is now Artistic Director of his own group, The Symphonic Brass of London and has released two albums with them, 'A Bridge across the Pyrenees' and 'Preludes, Rags and Cakewalks'.


    For more information see the two websites: ericcrees.co.uk
    thesymphonicbrassoflondon.com
    Instrumentation Sample

    Sample: First Movement

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