The Medieval Manuscript the 'Chronicles of Mann and Sudreys' mentions various locations, including the Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and even places as far away as Norway and Brittany.
Russell Gilmour (trumpet) and David Kilgallon (organ) use melodies from these countries and they merge and fuse these ideas together with their own to create unique compositions for trumpet and organ. The idea behind their musical collaboration is to explore traditional music from these countries and to adapt the music, interpret it and explore it. Chronicles' musical format is slightly unusual in that it combines trumpet and organ - not the instruments you may initially associate with folk music - but it is an approach that has sparked a lot of interest.
Their limited edition EP "Prologue" is a sample of things to come, as the production of a full album is underway. The full album will be Chronicles' musical impression of the Isle of Man's influences and rich history - as documented in the Chronicles of Mann.
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Last Post - St. Martin-in-the-Fields
%AM, %Europe/London %b %2019, %RI performed the Last Post and Rouse in the Eucharist for Remembrance Sunday at St. Martin-in-the-Fields on the morning of Sunday 10th November 2019.
I also played Malcolm Archer's 'In War, Resolution' (2010) and Ralph Vaughan Williams' motet 'Lord, Thou hast been our refuge' (1921) with the Choir of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, directed by Tom Williams and accompanied by Andrew Earis on the organ.
I had performed works by Bach, Purcell and Handel under Andrew's direction on Friday evening, so it was great to be back at St. Martin-in-the-Fields so soon.
The service began with 'For the fallen', by Douglas Guest set to the words of Robert Laurence Binyon's words: 'They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.' The service also featured the hymns 'Eternal Father, strong to save', 'Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom', 'There's a wideness in God's mercy', 'In our day of thanksgiving one psalm let us offer' and 'Jerusalem the golden'. The choir performed Jeffrey-Grey's 'I know that my Redeemer lives', Byrd's 'Kyrie eleison', a mass setting by Allcoat, Duruflé's 'Tantum ergo' and Andrew Earis played George Thalben-Ball's Elegy to end the service.
It was great to perform an official Last Post this year. I performed a digital Last Post last year to send to the members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Toyota Classics Tour players. I recorded a natural trumpet version in my hotel room in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia at 10:55am to send to our tour group on the hour. This marked a century since the armistice of the First World War.
Modern Trumpet, St. Martin-in-the-FieldsI also played Malcolm Archer's 'In War, Resolution' (2010) and Ralph Vaughan Williams' motet 'Lord, Thou hast been our refuge' (1921) with the Choir of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, directed by Tom Williams and accompanied by Andrew Earis on the organ.
I had performed works by Bach, Purcell and Handel under Andrew's direction on Friday evening, so it was great to be back at St. Martin-in-the-Fields so soon.
The service began with 'For the fallen', by Douglas Guest set to the words of Robert Laurence Binyon's words: 'They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.' The service also featured the hymns 'Eternal Father, strong to save', 'Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom', 'There's a wideness in God's mercy', 'In our day of thanksgiving one psalm let us offer' and 'Jerusalem the golden'. The choir performed Jeffrey-Grey's 'I know that my Redeemer lives', Byrd's 'Kyrie eleison', a mass setting by Allcoat, Duruflé's 'Tantum ergo' and Andrew Earis played George Thalben-Ball's Elegy to end the service.
It was great to perform an official Last Post this year. I performed a digital Last Post last year to send to the members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Toyota Classics Tour players. I recorded a natural trumpet version in my hotel room in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia at 10:55am to send to our tour group on the hour. This marked a century since the armistice of the First World War.