Release Date: 07 February 2025
Label: Lyrita - Cd / Lyrita
Packaging Type: Paper Back Book
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9790708217381
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: George Lloyd
Description
The HMS Trinidad March was composed for the ship on which George Lloyd served during the Second World War and became, in his words, "the official ship's march". When HMS Trinidad was commissioned on 14 October 1941, bandmaster Harold A Davis asked George to write the ship's official march. Unbeknown to Harold, a friend of the ship's captain, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, had also been invited to write a march. The captain agreed to listen to both men's marches and decide which was to be used. Vaughan Williams' march was not popular with the bandsmen and when both pieces were premiered in the ship's aircraft hangar, the captain announced that George's music would be adopted as the HMS Trinidad's official march. George's rousing march echoes the role of the Fantasia on British Sea Songs traditionally played at the Last Night of the Proms, with its links to the Navy and its catchy tunes and up tempo rhythms, which encourage audience participation.
Various Artists; Eric Coates
Various Artists; Eric Coates
Tasmin Little; Martin Roscoe; Ruth Rogers; Simon Callaghan
Simon Callaghan; Ashok Klouda; Members of the Piatti Quartet
Roderick Williams; Marta Fontanals-Simmons; Ben Goldscheider; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Thre
Martin Jones
Lionel Handy; Jennifer Walsh
George Lloyd
Tasmin Little; Martin Roscoe; Ruth Rogers; Simon Callaghan
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
George Lloyd
