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Wood, Henry : Fantasia on British Sea Songs : Sailor's Hornpipe [Excerpt]
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About "Wood, Henry : Fantasia on British Sea Songs : Sailor's Hornpipe [Excerpt]" by BBC Symphony Orchestra
A sailor’s hornpipe spins like a jig on a tilting deck, reeds and strings mimicking salt-sprayed footsteps. Henry Wood’s fantasia excerpt is pure nautical mischief—buoyant and brash—yet beneath the reel lies a wistful tug of distant shores. The orchestra captures the tension between duty and longing.