Howard Snell's Music

Now Available - ALLEGRO CON BRIO : the FINALE from Beethoven's 7th Symphony

To say that this is one of the most exciting Finales in the orchestral repertoire is no exaggeration. Beethoven the innovator once more. This being Fodens, I cut no corners in trying to bring out the visceral, manic exhilaration of this music. And they will tell you that they had to dig deep to master it.

Duration: 5-7 minutes according to repeats and possible shortening.

FODENS with MICHAEL FOWLES at the helm has recorded this FINALE as part of PATRONS' CHOICE N° 5 recording. This World of Brass CD will be out in mid February. Also featured in this recording, from the Rakeway Brass Band Catalogue, is Shostakovitch's GALOP (BB26).

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HOWARD SNELL MUSIC is an obvious name for a publisher of music, but why and what is RAKEWAY?

At the time I started to publish music, my wife Angela and I, plus four children who are now thoroughly middle-aged, lived in rural Staffordshire, as middle England as it is possible to get.

Our house was at the junction of a Roman road... part of it was in fact built over the road... and an ancient british, pre-celtic road. The road is in use to this day, only slightly updated. In old English it was called the Rake-Way. It seemed a suitable choice especially with its history and its character of always trying to follow the highest ground.

We lived there for many years before moving on to something completely different... (go to Howard Snell Music page for continuation)