Swedish Festival Music (Study Score)

This three-movement suite was commissioned by the Swedish Brass Band Association as the test piece for the Championship Section of their 2008 National Contest. The first movement is inspired by the magnificent Swedish hymn 'How Great Thou Art'. Indeed the influence of that hymn can be traced in all three movements. The declamatory style of the opening gives way to other, more reflective expressions of awe and wonder. A more animated section develops before a final, triumphant statement of the 'How Great' idea returns to finish the movement. The slow second movement features another much-loved Swedish hymn. The music provides plenty of scope for expressive playing, and a feeling of intimacy should be created by the use of several short solo passages. The third movement Allegro brings a totally different, dance-like mood with frequent references to a reel from the region of Uppland. This eventually brings a return to the opening subject and a final, triumphant reference to 'How Great Thou Art'.

Swedish Rhapsody (Score and Parts)

Swedish Rhapsody (Score Only)

Sweeney Todd (Brass Band - Score and Parts)

Malcolm Arnolds ballet, Sweeney Todd, was first staged in 1959 by The Royal Ballet Company with choreography by John Cranko. The music was later adapted as a concert work and it is from this version that this brass band arrangement, by Phillip Littlemore, is made. The original concert suite lasts some 20 minutes, but this version has been shortened to a more manageable eight minutes. The first performance of this arrangement was given on the 22nd October 2006 at the Malcolm Arnold Festival, Derngate, Northampton by the Rushden Windmill Band conducted by Richard Graves. Suitable for Advanced Youth/3rd Section Bands and above. Duration 8:00

Sweet Charity Selection

Includes: If My Friends Could See Me Now; Baby, Dream Your Dream; I'm a Brass Band; Big Spender.

Sweet Name (Flugel Horn Solo with Brass Band - Score and Parts)

The music was written at the request of Richard Woodrow of The International Staff Band in 2018. It is a big band setting of William Henry Rudd's melody The Saviour's name (T.B. 119), to which we associate the following words by Frederick Whitfield (S.A.S.B. 94):There is a name I love to hear,I love to sing its worth;It sounds like music in mine ear,The sweetest name on earth.O how I love the Saviour's name!The sweetest name on earth.

Sweet Nightingale - Baritone Solo (Brass Band - Score and Parts)

Commissioned by Carole Crompton, this work explores both the lyrical and virtuosic characteristics of the baritone in an engaging musical language.

Sweet Nightingale (Baritone and Piano)

Commissioned by Carole Crompton, this work explores both the lyrical and virtuosic characteristics of the baritone in an engaging musical language.

Swift Severn's Flood (Score and Parts)

Swift Severn's Flood is in one movement and is both heroic and brooding in nature. The work requires great virtuosity with fast, furious running passages juxtaposed against extreme dynamic contrasts

Swift Severn's Flood (Score Only)

Swift Severn's Flood is in one movement and is both heroic and brooding in nature. The work requires great virtuosity with fast, furious running passages juxtaposed against extreme dynamic contrasts