Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

Conducted by Guy Woolfenden

North Texas Wind Symphony

Conducted by Eugene Migliaro Corporon

Joseph Schwantner: From a Dark Millennium
Kamillo Lendvay: Concertino for Piano, Winds, Percussion and Harp
Guy Woolfenden: Illyrian Dances
Franck Ticheli: Music for Winds and Percussion

Ithaca College Wind Ensemble

Conducted by Rodney Winther

Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

conducted by the composer

Blow. blow thou winter wind (As You Like It)
Philomel (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Pavane - Gigue - Pavane (Much Ado About Nothing)
Where the bee sucks (The Tempest)
The Owl and the Cuckoo (Love's Labour's Lost)
Welsh Song (Henry IV , part I)

English Serenata

conducted by the composer
Yvonne Howard - mezzo soprano
Jamie MacDougall - tenor

The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines Plymouth

conducted by Major P J Rutterford

Guy Woolfenden: Gallimaufry
Jan P Sweelinck: Variations on Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Allan Gordon Bell: From Chaos to the Birth of a Dancing Star Richard Strauss: Allerseelen
Norman Dello Joio: Scenes from The Louvre

University of Calgary Wind Ensemble

conducted by Dr Glenn D Price

Philharmonia à Vent

conducted by John Boyd

Eric Hughes: Celebration Overture
Guy Woolfenden: Gordian Knots
Michael Ball: Concertino
Paul Hart: Eric's Czardas
Alan Bullard: Cyclic Harmony
G Lewin: The Grand Old Duke of York

British Clarinet Ensemble

conducted by Charles Hine

Ian Scott clarinet
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
conducted by Gavin Sutherland

Anne Dudley: Strange Capers
Django Bates: A Glooming Peace
Guy Woolfenden: Sweet Swan
Jason Carr: Poem Unlimited
Stephen Warbeck: The Death of Ophelia
Huw Warren: Lullaby Exit Bear
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Ophelia's Lament
Ilona Sekacz: A Plague of all Cowards
Dominic Muldowney: Lear's Trumpets
Shaun Davey: The Winter's End
Stephen Warbeck: The Beginning of the Partnership

Musicians of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Conducted by Michael Tubbs, Stephen Warbeck, John Woolf & Guy Woolfenden

Birmingham Symphonic Winds
Keith Allen - conductor
Guy Woolfenden - guest conductor*

1. Come unto these yellow sands (2:03)
2. Full Fathom Five (1:50)
3. Where the bee sucks (0:57)
4. Honour, Riches, Marriage, Blessing (2:18)

Composed and conducted by Guy Woolfenden
from the RSC 1978 production of The Tempest
directed by Clifford Williams
with Ian Charleson Ariel
and The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Wind Ensemble
with
Jean Temperley solo mezzo soprano
Lynda Richardson soprano
Lesley Reid contralto

"the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"

Thus Caliban describes the musical riches of Prospero's magic island. Many productions of the play opt for an isle full to bursting with "noises". Guy Woolfenden's attractive score takes its lead from the second line of the same speech.