The Royal Artillery Band, Sidney Victor Hays - The Queen's Birthday Salute (1959) [2008]

The Royal Artillery Band had their “drum and fife” as long ago as 1557, but it was the need for a “band of musik” in the regiment that led to the formation of the Royal Artillery Band in 1762. Since 1764, the band has been quartered with the Royal Artillery regiment in Woolwich, SE London. Today’s band employs over fifty musicians who, in keeping with tradition, must be accomplished on both orchestral and wind band instruments. The band may appear on one day as a symphonic wind band (one of the largest in the British army), the next as a marching unit, and at another time as a full symphony orchestra (England’s oldest established symphony orchestra).

Tracks:

Trooping The Colors
1 The Royal Regiment 1:34
2 The Royal Artillery Slow March (Trad.) 2:27
3 The Keel Row 1:16
4 Bonnie Dundee 0:53
5 British Grenadiers 1:19
6 Royal Birthday / 21 Gun Salute 3:27
7 Hark The Bonny Christchurch Bells 5:14
8 The Screw Guns 2:31
9 The Post Horn Galop 2:31

Band Concert
10 Fanfare Militaire 0:34
11 March Of The Peers, From "Iolanthe" 5:51
12 Rule Britannia 1:24
13 Greensleeves 1:54
14 Songs Of Scotland 2:14
15 Songs Of Ireland 3:02
16 Songs Of Wales 2:46
17 Songs Of England 2:06
18 Land of Hope and Glory 1:08
19 A Fanfare for a Jubilant Occasion (Bliss) 1:01


Concert Band – The Royal Artillery Band
Conductor, Narrator – Sidney Victor Hays
Trumpet, Ensemble – The Herald Trumpeters