The title is a Native American word that means to "make daylight" and was believed to be a command to "break camp and continue the journey." This descriptive work for young players opens with a noble

Xylophones ahoy! John Rutter's 'Partita' of 1976, now 'Cityscapes', is not a piece you might necessarily have expected from the renowned composer of some of the classics of contemporary sacred choral music.

Edward Elgar's symphonic poem Polonia was composed as a tribute to Paderewski for a special concert honouring Poland on 6 July 1915. Although the piece is mainly Elgar's own work, it includes quotations

William Walton's last "original" work of note was the Prologo e Fantasia in 1981-2, commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovitch and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. It was first performed in

The Crown of India March has been extracted from the elaborate theatrical presentation, a masque, originally including twelve pieces, staged in 1912 to celebrate the visit the preceding December of King

The circumstances surrounding the composition of the "Granada" Prelude make it, quite paradoxically, one of the most obscure pieces in William Walton's catalogue and the most often heard. It was

Enduring City was composed to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of New Bern, the first permanent seat of the colonial government of the state of North Carolina. It was first settled

Cariad, a Welsh word meaning "true love", "great love", is a composition by Welsh composer Gareth Glyn, featuring six folksongs based on the theme of love: Dacw Nghariad (There's my love);

I Believe in Springtime is a celebration of life, with text and music by John Rutter. The original scoring was for children's choir, optional SATB chorus, and small orchestra. This arrangement

The music for The Perfect Fool is taken from an opera by the same name, written by English composer Gustav Holst over the period of 1918 to 1922. The opera received its premiere at the Covent Garden

The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches), Op. 39, are a series of six marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar. The first four were published between

Elgar composed five of a projected six military marches between 1901 and 1930. He gave them the title Pomp and Circumstance, taken from Shakespeare's Othello: ‘The neighing steed and the shrill trump,

Froissart, Op. 19, is a concert overture by Edward Elgar, inspired by the 14th-century Chronicles of Jean Froissart. Elgar was first attracted to the Chronicles after finding mention of them in

The Wand of Youth suites were written in 1869 when Elgar was only twelve years old, music written for a play and acted by the Elgar children for a private family theatrical production. He noted the

The story portrayed in Stag's Leap is one of the legends of St. Eilian, who came to Anglesey as a Papal emissary in the 5th century.  He blinded the island's ruler, Cadwallon (or Caswallon) Lawhir, as

An Elgar Diptych brings together two independent and contrasting works composed by Elgar as he stood on the brink of national fame. Meditation, with its self-explanatory title, forms the first movement of

The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches), Op. 39, are a series of six marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar. The first four were published between