Herbert Howells:
Fanfare for Schools

Sir Malcolm Arnold:
Festival Fanfare
Kingston
A Richmond Fanfare
Railway Fanfare
Fanfare for a Royal Occasion

Sir Arthur Bliss:
Eight Fanfares
Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion
Fanfare for Heroes
Homage to Shakespeare
Fanfare in honour of Sir Henry Wood’s 75th birthday

Sir Michael Tippett:
Fanfare No. 3
The Wolf Trap Fanfare

Sir Granville Bantock:
Fanfare (1921)

Eric Coates:
Two Fanfares

Haydn Wood:
Fanfare No. 3
Six Fanfares (1945)

Imogen Holst:
Fanfare for Thaxted
Fanfare for the Grenadier Guards
Leiston Suite

Albert W. Ketelbey:
Coronation Fanfare
Fanfare No. 1 for a Naval Occasion
Fanfare No. 2 for a Naval Occasion
Fanfare for Victory
Fanfare for the Royal Artillery
Short Fanfare for the Air Force
Fanfare for a Ceremonial Occasion

Sir Hamilton Harty:
Fanfare

Frederic Curzon:
Fanfare No. 5
Fanfare No. 6 ‘Westminster’
Fanfare No. 4

Elisabeth Lutyens:
Fanfare for a Festival

Sir Arnold Bax:
Hosting at Dawn
Fanfare for a Cheerful Occasion
Two Fanfares for ‘Show Business'
Royal Wedding Fanfares
Salute to Sydney

Joseph Horovitz:
Graduation Fanfare No. 2

Among all the many Chandos brass recordings, each release having played a major role in the label’s successful history, this one may well be the loudest.

In the vast acoustic of St Jude’s Church, London, rendered in surround-sound, and in the largest ensemble format to which it has ever expanded, Onyx Brass, under the energetic direction of John Wilson, brings together four dozen fanfares by fourteen British composers of the past century and a half.

Including works by Arnold, Bax, Bliss, Imogen Holst Ketelbey, and Tippett – with numerous premiere recordings, this album is an unmissable celebration of stirring, brilliant, joyous, exciting, varied, sometimes military, and always optimistic music.

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Recording: Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London NW11; 6 and 7 April 2017