BRITISH WIND MUSIC

FRI 18 OCT, 1PM
DUKE’S HALL

Academy Wind Ensemble
Fraser Gordon conductor

TIPPETT Triumph
JUDITH BINGHAM Bright Spirit
PHILIP CASHIAN Settala’s Machine
PURCELL Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary

The Academy Wind Ensemble presents a programme of music ranging from the 17th to 21st century. The music Henry Purcell wrote for the funeral of Mary II in 1695 is some of his most moving. Judith Bingham’s Bright Spirit, from 2001, is similarly inspired, written in memorial to pioneering doctor William Reynish. A 2012 work from the Academy’s own Head of Composition, Philip Cashian, leads into Tippett’s Triumph. This work for concert band takes as its inspiration the composer’s humanist oratorio from the early 1980s, The Mask of Time.