Suite from Henry V

Suite from Henry V is a 1963 orchestral arrangement of William Walton's musical score from the 1944 film Henry V. The suite, arranged by Muir Mathieson, is in five movements, although the second and fourth movements had already appeared in string arrangement form in Walton's own Two Pieces for Strings from Henry V.^[1]

Overture: The Globe Playhouse
Passacaglia: Death of Falstaff
Charge and Battle
"Touch her soft lips and part"
Agincourt Song

The suite was first performed at a recording session for EMI on 15 October 1963 by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer.^[2] In addition to this suite, EMI had in 1946 recorded another LP called "Henry V: Scenes from the film" in which Laurence Olivier spoke lines of Shakespeare's play over an orchestral and choral underscore derived from the film soundtrack.^[3]

References

↑ Programme Notes, musicweb
↑ William Walton.net
↑ EMI 5 65007 2

William Walton

Stage works	The Bear (opera) Troilus and Cressida (opera) Façade (ballet)

Orchestral music	Capriccio burlesco Crown Imperial Johannesburg Festival Overture Spitfire Prelude and Fugue Prelude for Orchestra (Granada) Portsmouth Point Orb and Sceptre Suite from Henry V Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 2

Concerti	Cello Concerto Viola Concerto Violin Concerto

Film scores	Escape Me Never As You Like It Dreaming Lips Stolen Life Major Barbara The Next of Kin The Foreman Went to France The First of the Few Went the Day Well? Henry V Hamlet Richard III Battle of Britain Three Sisters

Other compositions	Façade – Entertainment Belshazzar's Feast (cantata)

Collaborations	Variations on an Elizabethan Theme

Related articles	List of compositions by William Walton Neotonality

Portal:Classical music

William Shakespeare's Henriad

Characters

Richard II	Richard II Henry Bolingbroke Duke of York Earl of Northumberland Duke of Aumerle John of Gaunt Queen (unnamed composite of Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois) Henry 'Hotspur' Percy Duchess of York (unnamed composite of Infanta Isabella of Castile and Joan Holland) Duchess of Gloucester Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk Bishop of Carlisle Duke of Surrey Bushy Bagot Green Lord Ross Earl of Salisbury Lord Berkeley

1 Henry IV	Henry IV Prince Hal Henry 'Hotspur' Percy Sir John Falstaff Ned Poins Mistress Quickly Bardolph Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester Earl of Douglas Sir Walter Blunt Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland Lady Percy Earl of Westmorland Owen Glendower Edmund Mortimer Lady Mortimer Archbishop of York John, Duke of Bedford

2 Henry IV	Henry IV Prince Hal Sir John Falstaff Ned Poins Ancient Pistol Bardolph Mistress Quickly Doll Tearsheet Robert Shallow Earl of Westmorland Archbishop of York John, Duke of Bedford Earl of Warwick Lord Chief Justice Lord Bardolf Earl of Northumberland Lord Mowbray Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Thomas, Duke of Clarence Earl of Surrey Rumour

Henry V	Henry V King of France Louis the Dauphin Fluellen Ancient Pistol Mistress Quickly Bardolph Corporal Nym Katharine Constable of France Chorus Duke of Exeter John, Duke of Bedford Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Thomas, Duke of Clarence Earl of Westmorland Duke of Orléans Duke of Burgundy Duke of York Earl of Salisbury Earl of Warwick Duke of Bourbon Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of Ely Queen Isabel Earl of Cambridge Lord Scroop Sir Thomas Grey Michael Williams Sir Thomas Erpingham Duke of Berry

On screen

Richard II	An Age of Kings (1960; TV) King Richard the Second (1978; TV) Richard the Second (2001) The Hollow Crown: Richard II (2012; TV)

1 Henry IV	An Age of Kings (1960; TV) Chimes at Midnight (1966) The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, with the life and death of Henry surnamed Hotspur (1979; TV) The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 1 (2012; TV)

2 Henry IV	An Age of Kings (1960; TV) Chimes at Midnight (1966) The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift (1979; TV) The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 2 (2012)

Henry V	Henry V (1944) An Age of Kings (1960; TV) Chimes at Midnight (1966) The Life of Henry the Fift (1979; TV) Henry V (1989) The Hollow Crown: Henry V (2012)

Holinshed's Chronicles
Hundred Years' War
Wars of the Roses
Divine right of kings
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Battle of Humbleton Hill
Battle of Shrewsbury
John Oldcastle
Battle of Agincourt
The Famous Victories of Henry V (c.1585)
Thomas of Woodstock/Richard the Second, Part One (c.1593)
Falstaff's Wedding (1760)
Falstaff (opera; 1913)
At the Boar's Head (1925)
Suite from Henry V (1963)

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