EUROPEAN MARCHES AND HISTORICAL MUSIC

Updated March 15, 2007

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MOTHER RUSSIA: ORIGINAL RECORDINGS 1930-1955 - A fascinating NINETEEN TRACK compilation CD featuring popular, folk and martial songs (compiled from rare Soviet 78rpm discs) from the years of “High Stalinism” in the USSR. Contents include: Our Machine Gun Cart; Farewell Song of the Komsomols; Sing, Soldier Sing; If War Comes Tomorrow; Cossack Song; Sing to us, Wind; Far beyond the River; Lullaby; Chubchik; Through Mountains and Steppe; Soldiers are departing; Sacred War; Polyushko Polye (Meadowland); Three Tank Soldiers; On the Way (V’ Put’); Song of the Fatherland; Hymn of the USSR (1941 Version) and more. This is an essential counterpart to the large body of Third Reich-era German material offered in the DOCUMENTARY SERIES section of our web-site. CD ONLY: EB01415-2 $21.95 BACKORDERED 

THE USSR DEFENSE MINISTRY BAND, MOSCOW - If it’s from Russia, it’s got to be big BIG – and this album featuring the premier military band of the Sovet Union and Russia is no exception! The one-hundred-and-fifty piece USSR Defense Ministry Band under the direction of N. Mikailov and Kh. Mukhamedzhan presents a program of Tsarist Russian, Soviet and European marches done in traditional, thundering Russian style, including: Grenadier; Hero’s March (which listeners will recognize from the “newsreel sequence” in the movie The Inner Circle); March of the Pechorsky Regiment; The Gladiator’s Farewell; Queen of the Ball; Triumph of the Victors; March of the Capital; King of the Sea; Over the Waves; The Fifth Swift March; Peacefighters; Chasseur’s March; On a Placid Lake; a Russian First World War march that still enjoys wide popularity at march pasts of the Russian armed forces today, the Slavic Woman’s Farewell; and the Freedom  March.  CD ONLY:  FSR1356 $15.00 BACKORDERED

THE BAND OF THE NEW ZEALAND ARMY – Interesting album highlighting an often overlooked military musical heritage – that of New Zealand (although the reputation for valor under fire earned wars by ANZAC forces in two world should be anything but overlooked). The Band of the New Zealand Army conducted by Major James Carson presents a program of British, American (and, incidentally, German) marches that have long been military music standards in the Anglo-Saxon world. Contents include: Blaze Away!; The Great Little Army; Old Comrades; Washington Grays; Thin Red Line; Invercargill (a piece by New Zealand composer Alex Lithgow dating from c. 1900); Dunedin (a composition by British march-king Kenneth Alford written in 1928 to commemorate his sojourn at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition of 1924); Sussex by the Sea; Colonel Bogey; Sons of the Brave; Gallant Hearts; Through Bolts and Bars and another Alford piece, Army of the Nile.  CD ONLY:  FSR1327 $15.00 BACKORDERED 

THE BAND OF H.M. ROYAL MARINES – Twenty marches and pieces for concert band performed by one of the world’s leading military ensembles, the Band of His Majesty’s Royal Marines at Portsmouth under the dircection of Captain Peter Heming, MVO. Contents include: Washington Grays; the Russlan and Ludmila Overture from Mikhail Glinka’s opera of the same name; The Trombone King; Trumpet Tune and Air by Henry Purcell; Colossus of Columbia; Her Majesty’s Yacht Britannia; French March by Camille Saint-Saens; Cyrus the Great; Action Front; Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee; On Parade; Broddenritt; The Melody Shop; Sharpshooters; Attorney General; a classic from Argentina, the San Lorenzo March and five others. Many recent British band CDs have been decried by listeners due to the small size of the performing ensembles.  This one won’t be - it presents that traditional “big” sound that bespeaks all the splendor and glory of a great world empire.  CD ONLY:  FSR1343  $15.00 BACKORDERED 

REGIMENTAL MARCHES OF THE BRITISH ARMY, Volume II  -  Second installment in the series cataloguing the regimental marches of the British Army, with another fine performance by The Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards under the Direction of Major TL Sharpe, MBE, and Captain RA Ridings. FORTY SIX separate selections are featured, including: Here’s A Health Unto His Majesty; Pioneer Corps; Balaclava March; Lilliburlero; The March Of the Bowmen; The 7^th Royal Fusiliers; The Minden March; Old Monmouthshire; York And Lancaster; The Kingsman; The Good Comrade; and many others too numerous to list. Among the more interesting musical offerings presented in this volume are the Royal Corps of Transport’s parade march Wait for the Wagon, which enjoyed great acclaim in the American South in 1860-1861 as a “sesesh” fight song. A virtuoso performance encompassing centuries of not just British but also Western military history. CD ONLY: CH6564 $18.95 BACKORDERED 

OLD CZECH MARCHES – Vaclav Neumann leads the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in a program of marches by renowned Czech composers, including numerous masters whose work is only rarely heard outside of the Czech lands. Contents include: Florentine March op. 214, Fanfare Sounds op. 278, “Uncle Teddy” March op, 239, Under the Admiral’s Flag op. 82, Herzegovac op. 235 and Entry of the Gladiators by Julius Fucik (1872-1916); Jarabacek and the Kolin Marsch by Frantisek Kmoch (1848-1912); Bai-Kai-Lai by Karel Pospisil (1867-1929); Round About Vysehrad by Frantisek Kovarik (1858-1936); Riviera by Vaclav Vackar (1881-1954); Fanfare March by Frantisek Zita (1880-1946); Captain Rimek by Antonin Nyvlt (1885-1952); Hail to the Chod Country! By Josef Flegl (1881-1962); Rival by Jan Uhlir (1894-1970); Music of Bohemia, be here to Stay! By Karel Vacek (1902-1982). CD ONLY: SU3557 DISCONTINUED

MARCHES FOR THE COLLECTOR – CD featuring a program of TWENTY FOUR rarely performed marches (mostly British with a goodly number of American selections as well), performed with style by the Band of the Royal Logistic Corps conducted by Captain JW Taylor. Includes: Monty’s Foxhounds (DJ Plater); Path of Glory (A. Steck); The Purple Pageant (by the American march composer KL King); The Free Lance March (John Philip Sousa); Step Lightly (P. Anderson); Ironsides (C. Ancliffe); Under the Banner of Victory (a.k.a. Unter dem Siegesbanner by Franz von Blon); British Phalanx (E, Nowowieski); Piccadilly (A. Steck); Belphegor (E, Brepsant); The Little Bugler (WJ Duthoit); To Your Guard (WT Hughes); National Unity (A. Steck); Waldmere (F. Losey); Adolphe March (G. Michaelis); The King’s Cavaliers (A. Sdafroni); Uncle Sammy (A. Holzman); Tudor Rose (Trayton Adams); Sylvia March (J. Vlach); Lynwood (J. Ord Hume); The Flash of Steel (G. Colin); Gallant Serbia (A. Lotter); The King’s Color (R. Barsotti); The National Game (John Philip Sousa). CD ONLY: SLB4016 DISCONTINUED

DUMBARTON’S DRUMS – The Band of the 52 Lowland Brigade, under the direction of Bandmaster David Knox, presents FOURTEEN marches and concert pieces for brass band, all selected and performed with true Caledonian spirit. Contents include: Dumbarton’s Drums (Trad.); The Pride of Princes Street (J. Howe); A Gaelic Blessing (John Rutter); The Voice of the Guns (KJ Alford); The Sands of Arisaig (John Montgomery); Little Concert Suite (Alfred Reed); Music from “Braveheart” (James Horner); The Band President (David Knox); Cry of the Celts (Ronan Hardiman); Happy Times March (Warren Barker); Bonnie Black Isle (David Knox); New Colonial March (RB Hall); A Scottish Rhapsody (Howard Cable) and, as a finale, the stoutly traditional Marches of the Band of the 55th Lowland Brigade (Highland Laddie, Daughter of the Regiment, We’re Nae Awa’ Tae Bide Awa’). CD ONLY: SLB4020 $15.95 DISCONTINUED 

TRADITIONAL SWISS MILITARY MUSIC – Rare performances of historic marches and ceremonial music (including Tattoos and Flag Marches), plus the Songs and Hymns of the Cantons of the Swiss Confederation, all featured in stirring renditions by the Rekrutenspiel Aarau, Rekrutentambouren Zürich, Jubiläums Felddivision 5, Rekrutenspiel Savatan and the Rekrutenspiele Zürich und Herisau. Includes: CEREMONIAL MUSIC (Nationalhymne; Fahnenmarsch; Tusch 1; Signet 2; Ordonnaz-Choral; Der gute Kamerad; Zapfenstreich); HISTORIC SWISS MARCHES (Mollens; Marche du Regiment de Courten; Marche pour le Regiment de Zurlauben; Marche des Armouruins; Zürcher Sechseläuten Marsch; Marsch de Regiment de Diesbach and others); CANTONIAL SONGS & HYMNS (Hymne vaudois; Vermahnlied an der Eidgenossenschaft; Roulez Tambours!; Lingua Materna; Beresina Lied; Ce qu’e laino [Hymn of the Republic of Geneva of 1603] and TEN other rarely heard, historic compositions ). CD ONLY: AM 5885 DISCONTINUED

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