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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'.
“To A Walrus” – the brass music of Andrew Powell (CD)
This album of Andrew Powell’s ground-breaking music for solo and ensemble brass is long overdue. On the landmark of Andrew’s 75th birthday this tribute to one of Wales’s most important contemporary composers covers the music he has written over the past 25 years for his lifetime friend and collaborator, John Wallace.
Opsnizing Dad (CD)
A one-act comic opera composed by John Wallace, set in the year 2100 and based on the award-winning short story - Opsnizing Dad - by Elisabeth Ingram Wallace. Performed by Jamie McDougall (tenor), The Wallace Collection (period brass and percussion), chorus provided by Scottish Opera and bonus tracks with McOpera.
The Flannan Isle (print)
[Print version] The Flannan Isle is an original work for solo voice (soprano), three trumpets, organ and soprano voices. Composed by John Wallace, it pulls on the legendary and mysterious story of the missing lighthouse men, encapsulated through the words of the poem Flannan Isle by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.
Quiraing (print)
[Print version] Quiraing is an exciting and dramatic unaccompanied piece for Bb clarinet that explores the clarinet's rich multiphonics, with musical inspiration being taken from the stark, rugged beauty of Quiraing, Isle of Skye.
Chosen Vale (print)
[Print version] Chosen Vale is an exciting and challenging work for three trumpets in three movements: Belong, Between, Behave. Composed by John Wallace, and inspired by the Chosen Vale international trumpet seminar held at The Center for Advanced Musical Studies in Chosen Vale. A multi-track recording of the work is also available from this shop.
The Trumpet (hardback)
[Hardback version] In this major book devoted to the trumpet, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising evolution and colorful performance history of one of the world's oldest instruments. They draw on deep research, lifetimes of experience in performing and teaching the trumpet in its various forms, and numerous interviews to illuminate the trumpet's history, music, and players.