• Composition: 1962, as the prelude for the call music for Granada TV.
• First Performance: Saturday, 25 June 1977. St. John’s, Smith Square, London. Young Musicians’ Symphony Orchestra, James Blair conductor.
• Duration: About 6 minutes
• Craggs Catalogue Number: C75a
• Instrumentation: 3 flutes (third doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (third doubling cor anglais), 3 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon – 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 3 percussion – harp – strings
• Manuscript: See manuscript information for the call music for Granada TV.
• Publication: Oxford University Press. Score and parts are available on hire.
• Arrangements: March for Concert Band, arranged by Gilbert Vinter. Note: This is the version of the prelude which was broadcast by Granada TV from 1965. Publication: Oxford University Press. Score and parts are available on hire.
• Recordings:

Orchestra Conductor Year Compact Disc Timing
London Philharmonic Bryden Thomson 1991 Chandos CHAN 8968 6’09”
The Band of the Scots Guards  [March for Concert Band] Major R. J. Owen 2002 SRC 107 5’16”