Price: £6.50
Item code: URCD148| Carey Blyton: Sherlock Holmes meets Doctor Who Music for brass and saxophone |
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| Year of publication | 1999 |
| Type of work | CD recording |
| CD Duration | 01:01:21 |
| Performers | Fine Arts Brass Ensemble; Phoenix Saxophone Quartet; Angela Whelan, trumpet; Stephen Roberts, horn; James Rae, saxophones; Jennifer Partridge, piano |
| Publisher | Upbeat Recordings |
| Grouping | Work | Movement | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Works for Brass Quintet | A Sherlock Holmes Suite | I: March: The Game’s Afoot! | 0:48 |
| 2 | II: Baker Street Conversation (Dr Watson and Mrs Hudson) | 2:24 | ||
| 3 | III: Porky Johnson and the Baker Street Irregulars | 1:01 | ||
| 4 | IV: Scenes from Holmes’ London (an Opium Den in Limehouse and a German Street Band) | 2:17 | ||
| 5 | V: Professional Colleagues (Leverton of Pinkerton’s Detective Agency, USA and Inspectors Gregson, Lestrade and Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard) | 2:25 | ||
| 6 | VI: Professor Moriarty – “The Napoleon of Crime” (Hansom Cab Chase) | 1:09 | ||
| 7 | VII: Finale: Victoria Triumphans! | 1:17 | ||
| 8 | Pasticheries | I: The Return of Bulgy Gogo – ragtime (tribute to Peter Warlock) | 1:24 | |
| 9 | II: The Velvet Gentleman – à la brossienne (tribute to Erik Satie) | 2:22 | ||
| 10 | III: Up the Faringdon Road! – valse brilliantine (tribute to Lord Berners) | 2:09 | ||
| 11 | Sweet & Sour Rag | 3:48 | ||
| 12 | Hark! The Merry Gentlemen | 3:13 | ||
| 13 | Emil Waldteufel arr. Carey Blyton | Eilgut-Galopp (La Grande Vitesse) | 2:29 | |
| 14 | Doctor Who Music | Silurian Suite | I: In the Caves | 2:05 |
| 15 | II: A Close Encounter | 1:13 | ||
| 16 | III: March: The Brigadier | 2:08 | ||
| 17 | Vogan Suite | I: Deep Space | 1:32 | |
| 18 | II: Vogan March | 1:53 | ||
| 19 | III: “All’s well … that ends well!” | 1:00 | ||
| 20 | Dalek Suite | I: A Desolate Landscape | 1:43 | |
| 21 | II: Chants & Variants | 4:07 | ||
| 22 | III: Dalek ‘March’ & Retreat | 1:35 | ||
| 23 | Works for Solo Saxophone & Piano | Six Epigrams | I: Idyll | 1:32 |
| 24 | II: March | 0:56 | ||
| 25 | III: Blues | 1:34 | ||
| 26 | IV: Scherzo | 0:55 | ||
| 27 | V: Homage to Czerny | 1:26 | ||
| 28 | VI: Echoes | 1:02 | ||
| 29 | In Memoriam Scott Fitzgerald | 2:29 | ||
| 30 | Mock Joplin | 2:14 | ||
| 31 | Saxe Blue | 3:07 | ||
| 32 | Saxophone Quartet | Cinque Port | Captain Bowsprit’s Blues | 2:21 |
| Total duration: | 61:21 | |||
Review
…the music is, as always with Blyton, an attractive mixture of brevity and immediacy of appeal…
—Musical Opinion