Description
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Prelude – The Truth from Above arr.Brass Band
Ref
Y362
Categories
Brass
,
Brass Ensembles
,
Instrumental Music
By
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Arranged for Brass Band by Paul Hindmarsh.
Set of Score and Parts
In his
Prelude – The Truth from Above
, outstanding arranger and curator Paul Hindmarsh has distilled the essence of a timeless Christmas classic by Ralph Vaughan Williams into five minutes of ravishingly unforgettable music for brass band. The variants of the Herefordshire tune popular from the
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
and
The Oxford Book of Carols
are skilfully and stylishly woven together, from an evocative opening to an ecstatic, multi-layered coda. Unerringly true to the timeless spirit of the original, with the added beauty of the brass-band sound at its most sonorously grave and haunting,
Prelude – The Truth from Above
may be performed separately, or as the first of two preludes, preceding Paul’s arrangement of
Rhosymedre from the Three Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes
, also available from Stainer & Bell.
