THE ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND

The Music of the Royal Artillery

1. Fanfare: The Royal Regiment

2. Regimental Quick March

3. Regimental Trot

4. Regimental Canter

5. Royal Artillery Slow March

6. March: The Little Gunner

7. March: The Gunners

8. Post Horn Galop

9. Waltz: Eton Boating Song

10. Coach Horn Galop

11-25. The Musical Drive

26. Marches

27. Grand March: Queen Victoria

28. Fanfare: The Right of the Line

29. March: Once a Gunner

30. Processional: Ducare Servi

31. Slow March: Salute to the Guns

32. Processional: The Roast Beef of Old England

33. Church Call

34. March: The Gunners

35. Royal Artillery General Salute

36. The British Grenadiers

37. Nimrod

38. Sunset

39. God Save The Queen

40. Last Post (Cavalry)

41. Reveille (Cavalry)

42. Last Post (Infantry)

43. Reveille (Infantry)

A great selection of marches and other music associated with this historic regiment Recorded in the Edwardian splendour of Woolwich Town Hall Contains music for The Musical Drive to accompany the Kings Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery. The Royal Artillery is one of the oldest regiments in Great Britain and serve wherever the British Army happen to be. They have an exceptional musical tradition and more many years were renowned for having a full-sized symphony orchestra (now a sadly reduced group) in addition to their military band. During Victorian times their Bandmaster was Cavalière Ladislao Zavertal, a Bohemian, who was a pupil of Dvorak, who actually visited the Band at Woolwich.

This CD contains Zavertal’s dramatic Queen Victoria Grand March, which had lain for many years in the British Library. As well as containing many marches by former Directors of Music, there is a good selection of music used for all kinds of Royal Artillery occasions, including the exhilarating Musical Drive, played to accompany the King’s Troop while giving their thrilling riding displays with horses, cannons and ammunition limbers. This CD has real variety and shows off the Band at its very best.

SRC SRC131