David Fanshawe FLAMBARDS Yorkshire TV Soundtrack Score LP Christine McKenna VG

Description: David Fanshawe – Flambards (Original Television Soundtrack) LP Vinyl Record (1979) Very good British 1st release. Theme and incidental music from the Yorkshire Television series. This is a brilliant and delightful score to a TV series that is not too well known these days. It is hauntingly beautiful and sure to be deserving of repeated listening. This album was only ever issued in the UK. Condition Vinyl – VG. Clean on visual inspection. No obvious marks and scratches. Played just pre-listing and sound clarity is very good throughout despite the odd click/pop and static/surface noise in places. Outer Sleeve / Cover – G-VG. Colours remain unfaded and clean. Very light edge-aperture-corner wear and vein-like creasing on front cover. Spine is clean and intact. Sticker residue on top right of front cover by Philips logo. Small tear on top edge above F of Flambards title. Some light nicks, dents and dropout in places. Reverse is clean with just a few vein-like creases and disc showthrough outline. Top left corner has a tiny foldover. Overall, a nice example. Inner Sleeve – EX. Original. White paper with ‘window’ one side and curved corners. Printed blue text on bottom of one side. Intact. Track listing A1. Flambards Theme A2. Aunt Grace's Two Step A3. Childhood Memories A4. Cameos: Mr Johnson's Rag / Mark Russell's Pomp / Dick Teaches Christina To Ride / Uncle Russell's Wrath A5. Rhapsody - Looping The Loop A6. Lady Bountiful A7. Misty Ride / Battersea Urchins / The Whistle B1. The Whistle / Dorothy's Theme B2. Song Of Christina B3. Will Proposes To Christina / Wedding Reception B4. Danger In Flight / Mr Dermot's Funeral B5. Elm Park Cafe B6. Sandy's Death B7. Young Widowed Ladies / Echoes Of Lost Love B8. Tizzy's Theme B9. Elegy B10. The Last Waltz / End Titles This TV drama is a forerunner to Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs in its temporal and spatial setting. About the series Flambards was a television series of 13 episodes which was broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1979 and in the United States in 1980. The series was based on the three Flambards novels of English author K. M. Peyton. Like the books, the series is set just before, during, and after World War I, and tells how the teenage heroine, the orphaned heiress Christina Parsons (Christine McKenna), comes to live at Flambards, the impoverished Essex estate owned by her crippled and tyrannical uncle, William Russell (Edward Judd), and his two sons, Mark (Steven Grives) and Will Russell (Alan Parnaby). Other cast members included Sebastian Abineri as Dick Wright, Anton Diffring as Mr Dermott, Rosalie Williams as Mary and Frank Mills as Fowler. About the composer and score The series' memorable score was composed by David Fanshawe, who is most famous for his 1972 composition African Sanctus. Of his score for Flambards, Fanshawe later wrote, "On April 5th, 1977, I was on my way to give a talk about my travels in Africa to the Oxfam Annual Staff Conference in Abingdon when, quite by accident, I whistled something, whistled it again, drew five lines and wrote it down. On arrival, I sought out the nearest piano, played the chord of 'A' seventh and whistled again. Just before going on stage, I completed the first phrase by writing it out backwards and indeed whistled it backwards: and that was the beginning of the music for Flambards. A week earlier, producer Leonard Lewis had phoned me, asking if I would like to compose a score for a 13 part series he was producing for Yorkshire Television. He sent me the books of Flambards by K.M. Peyton, together with the first part adapted for television by Alan Plater. On meeting the star of Flambards, Christine McKenna, who plays Christina in the series, I was convinced that the whistle was right for the signature tune. Keith Morgan, then Head of Music at Yorkshire Television, got the message and even whistled it back. So, that was how I came to compose five hours of music based on a 3½ bar whistle!" ––––––––––––––––––– I offer combined postage on all multiple purchases placed in the same order. Please await invoice before making payment. Postage and packaging FREE to UK (Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For). Will post worldwide (ALL Royal Mail International Tracked).Europe – £12 Canada, South America – £17 USA, Asia, Australia, Japan – £19 Sorry but no returns are accepted. Please see my other music listings. Thanks for looking and happy eBaying!

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