One of the Army’s newest bands
• Recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of St Werburgh’s Church,Preston
• A highly entertaining programme including military music,light music and folk music
This concert programme consists of music from the north of England. The King’s Division,whose Band is featured here,is relatively new and consists of most of the former infantry regiments from the north of England. Recorded in the huge acoustic of St Werburgh’s RC Church in Preston,the programme,largely English in content,includes the march Best Foot Forward by the legendary northern light music composer Ernest Tomlinson. As well as arrangements of Greensleeves,Thalben Ball’s Elegy and Walton’s Prelude to Richard III,there is also excellently performed music by Cole Porter,Leroy Anderson and Lerner and Loewe.
