Compositions and Arrangements for Brass
The following 14 works comprise the complete set of London Brass arrangements, mostly published by Brass Wind Publications. Once at the Brass Wind website, click on enter, then on the search icon, and choose Richard Bissill from the drop-down Arranger menu.
Each work is scored for 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones and tuba. Some have optional percussion.
- Muss i’ denn Traditional
- A Foggy Foggy May Traditional
- Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 Liszt
- The Way You Look Tonight Jerome Kern
- Granada Augustin Lara
- Spain Corea
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Jerome Kern
- Jealousy Jacob Gade
- Caravan Tizol/Ellington
- Norwegian Wood Lennon/McCartney
- De Hamborger Viermeister Traditional
The player below has excerpts of the first ten tracks
12. Joy to the World Traditional
13. Eleanor Rigby Lennon/McCartney
14. In the Bleak Midwinter Holst
15. Jealousy Jacob Gade
Scoring: 5tps, 1flg, 2hns, 4tbns, 2tbas, 2P, timps
Fanfare For A 75th Birthday
Scoring: 6tps, 6tbns, 2euphs, 2tbas, 4hns
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The entire evening’s celebrations had been introduced by a buoyant brass fanfare written for the occasion by the LPO’s principal horn, Richard Bissill. A golden arc of brass was arrayed on stage, in two octet groups. And, as though in stereo, they played with their patternings of alarums and swooping melodies, all based on a jazz-waltz rhythm arising from the sound of the words “seventy-five”.
Hilary Finch (The Times)
Philharmonic Fanfare
Scoring: 3tps, 4hns, 3tbns, tba, 3P, timps
Fanfare for orchestral brass and percussion commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Available from Brass Wind Publications
Gershwin Selection
Scoring: 4.1.4.1
Score and parts are available from De Haske Publications
Espana
Albeniz
Scoring: 2tps, hn, tbn, tba
Score and parts are available from De Haske Publications
Honeysuckle Rose
Fats Waller
Scoring: 2tps hn tbn tba
Available from Richard Bissill
Mine’s A Large One
Scoring: 4tubas 2euphs
Written in 2005 for the John Fletcher Trust Fund. Recording available: ‘Tuba Tribute to Fletch’.
The House of Dr. De’ath
Scoring: Trombone Quartet
[popeye ids=”1463″]Written for the trombones of London Brass.
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I’m Beginning to See the Light
Trumpet and Piano
A collection of uplifting songs imaginatively arranged for trumpet and piano, giving ample scope to develop stylistically from classical to jazz.
Available from Brass Wind Publications
Confortare
Dyson
Scoring: 4.1.4.1.2perc. organ. SATB
Anthem for brass, choir and organ. Arrangement commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee
Available from Richard Bissill
Praise The Lord, O Jerusalem
Purcell
Scoring: 4.1.4.1.organ. SATB
Available from Richard Bissill