Sample programmes
Bones Apart performs a huge variety of music combining original works and skilfully crafted arrangements. Here are some programme examples.
Wonder Women
Muses, Queens and Warriors
Hildegard von Bingen - O quam mirabilis est
Henry Purcell - Suite from Bonduca (Boudicca)
Helen Vollam - Torc (2021)
Camilla de Rossi - Suite from Sant' Alessio
Lili and Nadia Boulanger - Vignettes (selected works)
Angela Morley - Kehaar's Theme
Saskia Apon - First Trombone Quartet (2001)
Songs by Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Ann Ronell
Melba Liston - Blues Melba
Fain and Webster - Songs from Calamity Jane
"If music be the food of love..."
Music inspired by the works of William Shakespeare
Anon. - Agincourt Song
Tim Jackson - Four Shakespeare Songs (2008)
Felix Mendelssohn - Scenes from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Amy Beach - Three Shakespeare Choruses
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Suite from 'Hamlet'
Jason Carr - Poem Unlimited (1999)
Cole Porter - Songs from 'Kiss Me, Kate'
John Dankworth - Shakespeare and All That Jazz
Leonard Bernstein - 'West Side Story' Selection
Chasing Legends
Tales of King Arthur, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Sweeney Todd and more
Claudio Monteverdi - Toccata from 'Orfeo'
Henry Purcell - Suite from 'King Arthur'
Maurice Ravel, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jules Massenet - Fairytale Suite
Dan Jenkins - Scenes from Sherwood (2012)
Johann Pepusch - Overture to the 'Beggar's Opera'
Malcolm Arnold - Little Suite from 'Sweeney Todd'
Edvard Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King from 'Peer Gynt'
Lerner and Loewe - Songs from 'My Fair Lady' (after Pygmalion)
La Fiesta!
The sizzling splendour of Spain
Gioacchino Rossini - Overture to 'The Barber of Seville'
Anon. - Three Pieces from the Spanish Renaissance
Christian Lindberg - Vivencies (2004)
Isaac Albéniz - Tango from 'España'
Gerónimo Giménez - Intermedio from 'La Boda de Luis Alonso'
Georges Bizet - Suite from 'Carmen'
Miguel Llobet - El Noi De La Mare
Dan Jenkins - Señoras (2010)
Songs by Chick Corea, Consuelo Velasquez and Domenico Modugno
Great American Songbook
The iconic sounds of America
Traditional - Old American Songs
Eric Ewazen - Myths and Legends (2001)
Stephen Foster - Jeanie with the light brown hair
Arthur Pryor - Variations on 'Annie Laurie'
George Gershwin - Three Preludes
Dana Suesse - 110th Street Rhumba
Cole Porter - Songs from 'Kiss Me, Kate'
Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
'A Portrait of Ella' - Songs by Harold Arlen, Ann Ronell, Jimmy van Heusen, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
From St. Mark's to St. Louis
A brief history of the trombone
Biagio Marini - Canzon terza à 4 tromboni
Claudio Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Overture to 'The Magic Flute'
Ludwig van Beethoven - Drei Equali
Anton Bruckner - Motets
Ryan Hume - Flip Side (2024)
Arthur Pryor - Variations on 'Annie Laurie'
W.C. Handy - St Louis Blues
Songs by Melba Liston, George Bassman and Meredith Willson
El Nuevo Mundo
A musical voyage to The Americas
Anon. - Three Pieces from the Spanish Renaissance
Manuel de Zumaya - Two Arias from 'Cantata al San Pedro'
Trad./Elizabeth Purnell - Five Spirituals
Chiquinha Gonzaga - Lua Branca and Gaúcho
George Gershwin - Three Preludes
Ernesto Nazareth, Hector Ayala - Choros y Tangos
Gerardo Rodriguez - La Cumparsita
Astor Piazzolla - Postcards from Argentina
Songs by Maria Grever, Consuelo Velasquez, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Chick Corea
Yule Love This!
A festive treat of seasonal music
Sergei Prokofieff - Troika from 'Lieutenant Kijé'
Mykola Leontovych - Carol of the Bells
Hector Berlioz - Shepherds' Farewell from 'L'Enfance du Christ'
Gabriel Fauré - Il est né, le divin Enfant
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Suite from 'The Nutcracker'
Arthur Sullivan - Christmas Bells at Sea
Gustav Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter
Victor Hely-Hutchinson - The First Nowell
F. X. Gruber - Silent Night
... and some swinging Christmas favourites!