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Symphony (album) [audio download]
(album) [mp3 audio download] This recording features John Wallace's creation - Symphony. The composition of the title work began in 1974, and was only completed in 2024, some fifty years later. Written for brass band, brass quintet, double-belled solo trumpet, six natural trumpets, live electronics, organ, and bodhrán, this recording welcomes the eclectic contributions from Kingdom Brass, Whitburn Band, The cooperation band, The Wallace Collection, Sandy McGrattan and the RCS natural trumpet consort, Marco Blaauw (double-belled trumpet), Anthony George (tuba), Alistair McDonald (live electronics), David Hamilton (organ) and Steve Foreman (bodhrán), with Kingdom Brass also featuring in the closing track of the Martin Luther King-inspired Where do we go from here?
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Symphony (score) [digital download]
(Music score) [Digital Download PDF] FREE SCORE DOWNLOAD FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY
Symphony was composed by John Wallace over the course of 40 years. A contemporary work with 4 movements, embracing the sounds of brass band, brass quintet, live electronics and featuring a double-belled trumpet. This four movement work is the title track of a 2025 album release under The Wallace Collection label - Symphony. This complete score is currently being offered as a FREE downloadable PDF in order to share the creativity and intricacies of this major work.
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The Centre Of Things (album) [audio download]
(album) [mp3 audi download] This recording leads with The Centre of Things, a song-cycle composed by John Wallace between 2015 and 2019 for trumpet, tenor and piano on poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) and Ruaraidh MacThòmais. It was first performed in its entirety by tenor Jamie MacDougall, pianist Marianna Abrahamyan with Bede Williams on trumpet on October 30 2024, at the MacPherson Recital Room of the Laidlaw Centre at the University of St Andrews. The inclusion of Paul Mealor’s Five Bagatelles (recorded in the same session) rounds off the tracklist of this album, once again highlighting the remarkable talents of the featured performers. The full score is also currently available as a downloadable PDF.
This recording project was enabled by the generous philanthropic giving of Lord Vallance of Tummel.
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The Centre Of Things (score) [digital download]
[Digital Download version] (Score) FREE DOWNLOAD FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!
The Centre Of Things is a song-cycle was composed by John Wallace between 2015 and 2019 for trumpet, tenor and piano on poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) and Ruaraidh MacThòmais. The collection is now available to hear as part of a 2025 album release under The Wallace Collection label - The Centre Of Things (which includes Paul Mealor’s Five Bagatelles), recorded by Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Bede Williams (trumpet), Marianna Abrahamyan (piano). This complete score is currently being offered as a FREE downloadable PDF in order to share the beauty and intrigue of these contrasting and emotive works.
As Above, So Below (album) [audio download]
(album) [mp3 audio download The two works on this disc are groundbreaking landmarks in new composition for brass band. From 2017, Jay Capperauld's visionary masterpiece - As Above, So Below - extends composition for brass band into the realms of spatial quasi-religious experience. With the quintet elevated and spaced around the band, the band responds with a new vista of sound: everything from distant murmurings to cataclysmic rending of the air. From 1975, the Derek Bourgeois Concerto for Brass Quintet and Brass Band introduces a concertante quintet of orchestral instruments into the brass band milieu. Derek’s masterly exploitation of the increased palette of colour and texture results in a work of towering power and passion.
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The Dynamic Duo (album) [audio download]
(Album) [Download MP3] When Covid-19 hit and the UK entered a succession of lockdowns, John Miller and John Wallace fished out some detritus from their previous lives as working full-time professional players. John Wallace writes: We started playing duets together around 70 years ago. So, we now started to amuse ourselves, playing through duets again, as we had done to ‘keep our lips in’ earlier in our careers. After soon running out of material there was nothing for it but to bite the bullet on the previously unapproachable Himalayan heights of Holloway along with Saint-Jacome and Bellon. In adversity, we discovered that there is much great music written for trumpet duet and inspire the hope that these recordings will stimulate others to play this music and derive as much pleasure from it as have 'we two Johns'.
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Trois Duo Concertans Pour Pistons – Bellon (music) [digital download]
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To mark the release of 'The Dynamic Duo' duet album from John Wallace and John Miller, we are delighted to provide you with a free downloadable PDF of the Bellon duets included on the album. Credit: This is a facsimile of an original copy held by Bibliotheque National de France.
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12 Celebrated Duets – Saint-Jacome (music) [digital download]
(Sheet Music) [Digital Download version] FREE DOWNLOAD FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY
To mark the release of 'The Dynamic Duo' duet album from John Wallace and John Miller, we are delighted to provide you with a free downloadable PDF of the Saint-Jacome duets included on the album. This is a facsimile of an original copy held in John Wallace’s personal library, and an additional errata page has been added by the 'two Johns', compiled during the recording project for the album.
Russian Rag (print)
[Print version] This arrangement of Russian Rag – Interpolating the world famous “Prelude” by Rachmaninoff – has been crafted by Sandy Coffin to recreate the unique style and sounds of the legendary Harlem Hellfighters band, through close listening of their available archive recordings.
That Moaning Trombone (print)
[Print version] This arrangement of That Moaning Trombone – a comic march one step – was commissioned by John Wallace and has been crafted by Sandy Coffin to recreate the unique style and sounds of the legendary Harlem Hellfighters band, through close listening of their available archive recordings.
The St Louis Blues (print)
[Print version] This arrangement of W C Handy's famous The St Louis Blues two-step march was commissioned by John Wallace. Through close listening of available archive recordings, it has been crafted by Sandy Coffin to recreate the unique style and sounds of the legendary Harlem Hellfighters band. A recording is also featured on a 2019 album release - Unfinished Symphony available from this online shop
Songs From The North (print)
[Print version] Songs from the North was originally commissioned by the Park Lane Group and composed by Edward McGuire for John Wallace on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Offering a mesmerising, delicate and playful collection of 5 songs for voice (soprano) and brass quintet. Each song adding an additional layer of brass sound, building towards the final movement which combines soprano voice with a full brass quintet.