Elgar Howarth
Elgar Howarth (4 November 1935 – 13 January 2025) was an English conductor, composer and trumpeter. Grove noted that "his performances are marked by powerful concentration and a clear communication of sometimes complex scores". He conducted many world premieres, including Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and four operas by Harrison Birtwistle. He composed mainly music for brass instruments and brass bands, some under the pseudonym W. Hogarth Lear. As a player, he was one of the trumpeters who performed with the Beatles on the song "Magical Mystery Tour". The author of a feature article about Howarth in 1999 wrote that "as trumpeter, composer and conductor, he has featured in many of the important musical developments in the UK and beyond over the past 40 years".
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Top Tracks
- Entry of the Gladiators (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
- Entry of the Gladiators (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
- The Dam Busters (Arr. Duthoit)
- Music for the Royal Fireworks: Suite HWV 351 (Arr. Howarth): 1. Overture
- Pictures At An Exhibition (Arr. Howarth): Baba Yaga; The Great Gate of Kiev
- The Liberty Bell (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
- The Earl of Oxford's March
- Little Suite No. 1 for Brass Band, Op. 80: 3. Rondo (Allegro vivace)
- Little Suite No. 1 for Brass Band, Op. 80: 1. Prelude (Allegro ma non troppo)
- In Memoriam R.K.
- Trumpet Voluntary
- The Liberty Bell (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
- King Cotton
- Colonel Bogey
- The Dam Busters (Arr. Duthoit)
- The Thunderer
- Semper Fidelis
- Aida - Arr. R. Sanders - Act 2: Marcia
- Washington Post
- The Stars and Stripes Forever
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