Anglo Music

Sounds Classical' is a collection of graded solos selected specifically for the developing saxophon player. Designed to correlate with grades 1-4 of the exam syllabus of the Associated Board of the r...

Sounds Classical' is a collection of graded solos selected specifically for the developing saxophon player. Designed to correlate with grades 1-4 of the exam syllabus of the Associated Board of the r...

After a short introduction, the soloist introduces a rather nostalgic melody before the piano takes centre stage with a slightly faster interlude, reaching a dramatic climax. Eventually, the piano res...

Super Solos für fortgeschrittene Schüler hält mitreißende Stücke parat, mit denen neue technische und musikalische Schwierigkeiten gemeistert und ein größerer Tonumfang sowie neue Tonarten gelernt wer...

The Eagle's Quest wurde vom Brevik Musikkorps (Norwegen) in Auftrag gegeben, um den 400. Geburtstag von Cort Adeler, einem berühmten norwegisch-niederländischen Seefahrer, zu feiern, der 1622 in der S...

Time Remembered es una pieza del milenio en dos aspectos: fue escrita en el cambio de milenio y expresa que el futuro sólo puede construirse sobre el pasado. La composición tranquila y sublime no sólo...

Suite from Hymn of the Highlands dibuja tres expresivos cuadros musicales de las tierras altas escocesas. El primer movimiento, Ardross Castle, contiene pasajes solistas para clarinete y fagot y prese...

The Four Noble Truths are the most basic expression of the teaching of Buddha and therefore still form the guidelines for Buddhists to this day. The four truths are Dukkha, which describes times of ma...

In The Pioneers Philip Sparke salutes the bicentenary of an expedition by two all time American heroes - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. They were commissioned by US President Thomas Jefferson to...

100 years ago English composer Vaughan Williams visited Norfolk (an area on the east coast of England) to collect and notate folk songs from people of all trades and callings. Accompanied by a local c...

Sin pretender ninguna autenticidad estilística, esta pequeña pieza pretende captar el contagioso espíritu del legendario mariachi. El término mariachi describe no sólo la instrumentación (con guitarra...

Konzertwerk/Wettbewerbsstück Neapolitan Holiday ist, dem Vorbild von Mendelssohns 4. Sinfonie, Elgars In the South: Alassio und Respighis Römische Trilogie folgend, durch den Einsatz der instrumentale...

In 2008 Philip Sparke published his book of etudes "Super Solos", the third volume of a series for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone and euphonium. A young German flutist was so...

Lion City Festival was commissioned as one of the test pieces for the Singapore Youth Festival 2010, an annual event at which school ensembles from throughout Singapore can receive gold, silver or bro...

As a native Londoner, composer Philip Sparke has always been attracted to the great cities of the world, fascinated by their varied moods and human diversity. London, Chicago, Tokyo, Paris, Rome and N...

Just based on its title, this piece has to be celebratory and up-beat, which it is! It opens with a stately fanfare, first played on the low brass before the entire band joins in. This gives way to a...

This celebratory work, which Philip Sparke wrote for the 20th anniversary of the Nottingham Concert Band, starts with a hymn-like theme played as a fanfare in the brass. With a change of mood from 'so...

Moving Heaven and Earth consists of a theme and 4 variations; although the theme is original it contains a phrase heavily influenced by a 14-bar passage from the Libera Me in Fauré's Requiem. It is a...

Of Skies, Rivers, Lakes and Mountains was commissioned by the Northern California Band Directors' Association to honour their 50th Anniversary in 2012. The first performance was given by the Associati...

The Song of the Bell was commissioned by Stadtmusikkapelle Wilten, from Innsbruck, Austria, and premiered by them on 21st April 2012, conducted by Peter Kostner. The piece is based on Friedrich Schill...

Diamond Concerto was commissioned by Musikverein Mörschied from Germany - Dr. Eric Grandjean, conductor - for a special concert featuring Steven Mead as guest soloist. Together they gave the world pre...

Looking Up, Moving On was commissioned by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and was part of a tour programme they gave in May 2012, a tour which included many areas that had been devastated by the 2011 e...

Philip Sparke's Of Myths and Monsters links thematically to his work Music of the Spheres. The Hydra, Cassiopeia, Orion and Pegasus are the constellations and corresponding Greek myths depicted in thi...

The Shakers were a sect who, in the 18th Century, sailed out from England to America. Right into the late 19th Century, the numerous songs of this community were handed down orally, until they were wr...