English Music Festival, Dorchester

[EdgeleyRob]

The Butterworth reconstruction was interesting. It was always going to be difficult, but Martin Yates gave all the existing music (92 bars) and most of it twice, at the beginning and end. In the middle he'd presumably composed some mock-RVW himself. This was a pity, since he missed the chance to expand on the 11 bars of Vivace at the end of the score - instead he played that slowly and mournfully. In fact, it was all a bit slow (it is marked Lento non troppo at the beginning, moving to Andantino for the main tune). I suspect there's a post-hoc rationalisation here - GSKB died in the war, so everything he wrote must have been regretful and fatalistic.

The 14 pages of score that survive are from a draft full score. Frustratingly (very much so) it seems there was a short score, presumably complete, since Butterworth has left a gap at bar 6 with a note "see short score". Needless to say that short score has never been found.

Interesting post,many thanks Pabs.

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks for the confirmation. The Alwyn is a fine piece - that performance is a studio one on Dutton:

Alwyn - Blackdown

The Arnell seems still listed by Dutton:

Arnell - Symphony No 3

Apologies for the duff info PJPJ,not sure what I was looking at.

[Roehre]

The Butterworth reconstruction was interesting. It was always going to be difficult, but Martin Yates gave all the existing music (92 bars) and most of it twice, at the beginning and end. In the middle he'd presumably composed some mock-RVW himself. This was a pity, since he missed the chance to expand on the 11 bars of Vivace at the end of the score - instead he played that slowly and mournfully. In fact, it was all a bit slow (it is marked Lento non troppo at the beginning, moving to Andantino for the main tune). I suspect there's a post-hoc rationalisation here - GSKB died in the war, so everything he wrote must have been regretful and fatalistic.

The 14 pages of score that survive are from a draft full score. Frustratingly (very much so) it seems there was a short score, presumably complete, since Butterworth has left a gap at bar 6 with a note "see short score". Needless to say that short score has never been found.

Thanks Pabs for your observation.
I found it remarkable that AFAIK it was in this "mock-RVW Yates" passage that the loudest and fastest music is found.