features music by Roger Smalley
The programme begins with old English brass music
Including the sixth of William Blitheman's variants on the plainsong ' Gloria
'Tibi Trinitas,' on which Roger Smalley has based his Missa brevis
He has used this mass as the model for two interconnecting instrumental parodies:
Missa Parodia I, for piano
Missa Parodia II, for piano and eight instruments
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
JOHN ALLDIS Choir
Conductor, JOHN ALLDIS
STEPHEN SAVAGE (piano) NASH ENSEMBLE
Conducted by the composer
†Missa Parodia and II broadcast on May 30