Suite from 'The Fairy Queen'
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Purcell arr Eric Crees

Suite from 'The Fairy Queen'

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Instrument: brass tentet (score and parts)
Grade: conservatoire
Catalogue No: AL005

Purcell's music for 'The Fairy Queen' was written in 1692. Scored originally mainly for strings and continuo with occasional trumpets, oboes and timpani, this brass version must be seated as specified in the score in order to achieve various group and antiphonal effects which are not always Purcell's but which endeavour to give variety and colour. Ornaments and embellishments have been written into the arrangement so none further are really necessary. Movements may be performed separately (or as groups where they adjoin in nos. 2 & 3 and 7, 8 and 9) and a shorter suite performed if desired.

The complete suite was first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Brass at the Barbican Hall, London on 16th. October, 1994.
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
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