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Listen: Variations on Laudate Dominum

For a composer brought up in the Salvation Army, Edward Gregson has contributed relatively little to the repertoire for those bands (not surprising, perhaps, as he left the Army when during his time a student of the Royal Academy of Music in 1963). One work, however, stands out like a beacon from most of the Salvationist music published in the 1970s. His Variations on Laudate Dominum was commissioned for the 1976 British tour of the London Citadel Band (from Ontario, Canada) whose conductor then was the composer’s brother, Bramwell.

Edward Gregson has always found the requirement for Salvationist band music to include a familiar religious tune less than stimulating. However, in Sir Hubert Parry’s marvellous hymn tune O Worship The King, Gregson found a melody which, with its simple but strong contour and crisp and clear phrasing, was compatible with his own by now fully-developed musical language.

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