CHECKMATE SUITE / HYMN TO APOLLO

BLISS / HANDLEY / HICKOX

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Checkmate Suite
I Prologue: The Players
II Dance Of The Four Knights
III Entry Of The Black Queen
IV The Red Knight's Mazurka –
V Ceremony Of The Red Bishops –
VI Finale: Checkmate
Quintet For Clarinet And Strings
I Moderato
II Allegro Molto
III Adagietto Espressivo – Allegro Moderato
IV Allegro Energico
Hymn To Apollo
Music For Strings
I Allegro Moderato, Energico –
II Andante, Molto Sostenuto
III Allegro Molto
Pastoral "Lie Strewn The White Flocks"
I Introduction And The Shepherd's Holyday –
II A Hymn To Pan –
III Pan's Saraband –
IV Pan And Echo –
V The Naïads' Music
VI The Pigeon Song
VII The Song Of The Reapers –
VIII Finale –
IX The Shepherd's Night-Song

NOTES

Recording venues: Ulster Hall, Belfast; 25-27 March 1986 (Checkmate Suite) & 22 August 1989 (Hymn to Apollo): St. George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, London; 31 May and 1 June 1982 (Clarinet Quintet) & All Saints' Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 28-29 January 1990 (other works)

Total time: CD1 65:59, CD2 61:04

Front cover: The cabbage patch by Alfred Glendening Jnr.

Copyright: Sir Arthur Bliss 50/Novello & Co. Ltd 50 (Clarinet Quintet), Sir Arthur Bliss 50/Universal Edition Ltd 50 (Hymn to Apollo) & Novello & Co. Ltd (other works)

℗ 1983, 1987, 1991 Chandos Record Ltd
© 1999 Chandos Record Ltd

Made in the EU
Printed in the EU

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