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THE HOUSEHOLD DIVISION PRESENTS MUSIC FROM BEATING RETREAT 1999

The beating or sounding of Retreat has its origins in the sixteenth century when it was possibly the same ceremony as Tattoo ' ye retrete to beat att 9 att night and take it from ye garde'.  A book of 1598 says 'ye Drumme Major will advertise (by beate of Drum) those require for watch'.  In the seventeenth century the Drummers are 'to beate the Retreat through the large street and to be answered by all drummers of ye Gardes'. In 1727 'half an hour before the setting of the sun the Drummers and Port-Guards are to go upon the ramparts and beat a Retreat to give notice to those without that the gates are to be shut.

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                       Catalogue No. TRCD 992

Track List

MASSED BANDS OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY

Fanfare - Flourish
March On - Coburg
Quick March - Radetsky
Concert March - Father Rhine
Finale - Carmina Burana
March Off - The Life Guards
                     The Blues and Royals

THE MASSED CORPS OF DRUMS OF THE GUARDS DIVISION

Solo Bugle - Retreat
                      Colonel Heywood MBE
Retreat March - Land of my Fathers and Pretty Polly Oliver
Irish Jugs
Drums Flourish
Quick March - Semper Fidelis

MASSED BANDS OF THE GUARDS DIVISION

March On - Glorious Victory
                     Standard of St. George
Slow March - British Folk Song Medley
Quick March - High School Cadets
                          Wellington
Slow March - HRH The Duchess of                          Kent's March
Quick March - Chimes of Victory
Static - Las Castenuelas
Quick March - Birdcage Walk
                          Fehrbelliner                           Reitermarsch

FINALE

Crown Imperial
Evening Hymn and Last Post
The National Anthem
The Blues and Royals
God Bless The Prince of Wales
March Off - Der Hohenfriedberger                      Marsch
The King's Guard