Joseph Holbrooke – Auld Lang Syne Variations

Joseph Holbrooke (1878-1958)

Auld Lang Syne Variations, Op.60 (1906)
Portraits for Orchestra on a Scots Theme

Theme [00:00]
Var. 1 – J.H. (Joseph Holbrooke) [00:53]
Var. 2 – F.B. (Frank Bridge) [01:51]
Var. 3 – A.B. (Arnold Bax) [02:23]
Var. 4 – C.T. (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor) [02:36]
Var. 5 – V.W./W.W (William Wallace/Ralph Vaughan Williams) [03:30]
Var. 6 – B.D. (Benjamin Dale) [04:22]
Var. 7 – E.S. (Ethel Smyth) [05:08]
Var. 8 – R.W. (Richard Walthew) [06:10]
Var. 9 – E.E. (Edward Elgar) [07:08]
Var. 10 – F.D. (Frederick Delius) [07:50]
Var. 11 – J.S. (Joseph Speaight) [09:29]
Var. 12 – F.C.N. (Frederick Charles Nichols) [10:23]
Var. 13 – S.H. (Stanley Hawley) [11:48]
Var. 14 – H.B. (Havergal Brian) [12:11]
Var. 15 – C.F. (Cecil Forsyth) [13:03]
Var. 16 – C.S./C.D. (Cyril Scott/C.D.?) [14:05]
Var. 17 – R.S. (Richard Strauss) [15:52]
Var. 18 – G.M. (George Moore) [17:37]
Var. 19 – J.H.F. (John Herbert Foulds) [18:15]
Var. 20 – G.B. (Granville Bantock) [18:56]

[AlexanderCappellazzo]

If you know the dedicatees you can really hear how Holbrooke pays homage to them! If you don’t know the dedicatees you just learned about a lot of great English composers (and Strauss)!

[jdoggtn]

Var. 16 C. D. would be Claude Debussy. A lot of people called Cyril Scott "The English Debussy, " and people found their harmony to be superficially similar.

[bui]

Buonasera, altro interessante brano, veramente originale. Avanti con questi ascolti, servono sempre!!! 👍👍👍😁😁😁

[skylarlimex]

very cool piece i hear some grainger in there as well

[mrtchaikovsky]

Strangely enough, the trumpeter deviates from the score in the first measure, playing an f# instead of a g on the quaver.
At 18:36 the glockenspiel quotes "Yankee Doodle", for whatever reason. Afterwards, the old Scottish song "Annie Laurie" can be heard in the oboes.

[jdoggtn]

Who would C. T. be? The harmonies sound more like Cyril Scott, but I can't think of a British composer with the initials C. T.