Recorded: Budapest Film Orchestra, The Mental Cartographer (Hoyer Media, 2021)
What's included: Full scores + parts (PDF)
Description: The famous memorial poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson comes to life with an orchestral recitation. The heavy hoofbeats of the opening phrase, ‘Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. forms the musical backbone of a celebrated episode of valor mixed with loss. The story of the ill-fated ride is punctuated with the national music of the British and the Russians in a great musical clash that gives way to the broken retreat of our valiant cavalry. As with the poem, the work ends with a call of remembrance for their courage.
Recorded: Budapest Film Orchestra, The Mental Cartographer (Hoyer Media, 2021)
What's included: Full scores + parts (PDF)
Description: The famous memorial poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson comes to life with an orchestral recitation. The heavy hoofbeats of the opening phrase, ‘Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. forms the musical backbone of a celebrated episode of valor mixed with loss. The story of the ill-fated ride is punctuated with the national music of the British and the Russians in a great musical clash that gives way to the broken retreat of our valiant cavalry. As with the poem, the work ends with a call of remembrance for their courage.
As recorded in 2019 by Peter Pejtsik and the Budapest Film Orchestra.
